secrecy over sexual harassment settlements is because it is getting paid out of a fund backed by taxpayer dollars. what is going to happen with that? reporter: right. that may be the mechanism by which the american people find out more about this. congress has treated the ethics committee investigations like the kind of thing your corporate hr might look into and not talk about it after the fact. that s a much harder leg to stand on when the back end of it involves a payout of your money, my money, any american taxpayer s money, to make these thick things go away on the back end. the house is out today. senate is back later this week. the congressional calendar is packed. don t be surprised if we see legislation addressing the questions about who gets paid and when and when the taxpayer finds out about it. thank you. we ll be talking to you a lot. the house and senate have a packed session. garrett haake on capitol hill. packed. 12 days left.
no offense to my colleagues, but that s not real and that s not accountability. coniers and franken will cooperate with the helpive house and senate ethics committees. fred, the history of these committees so gray in your jurisdiction, it s a court of public opinion. you are asking them to judge and it will be interesting to see what light is shined on the proceedings that happened with such a bright spotlight on the discussion. both said they are open to the ethics committee investigations, but of course we will see what happens from this point on. thanks so much. appreciate it. president trump continues to push support for senate candidate roy moore out of alabama who faced a string of sexual assault allegations, tweeting this morning the president saying the last thing we need in alabama and the senate is a schumer-pelosi puppet who is weak on crime and
at capitol hill? has roy moore got more or fewer friends there? reporter: well, pretty much a man without a country now on capitol hill, ali. the only person who only senator of note we haven t really heard from about roy moore is rand paul. who s keeping a much lower profile than he typically does because he s recovering from those broken ribs. rand paul is one of the five senators to initially endorse roy moore after he had beaten luther strange. he s the only one of the five not to walk that endorsement back, but it s become increasingly clear that the senate sort of as a broad body doesn t want to have this roy moore problem. you can put it into context looking at the day we had today. we ve had today multiple senators calling for multiple senate ethics committee investigations, and in this case, two democrats. al franken and bob menendez of new jersey. ethics committee investigations are rare, and they are secret. you don t know when they start.
by russia, why was that taken out of the republican platform? there s a lot of aspects of this whole relationship with russia and vladimir putin that requires further scrutiny and so far i don t think the american people have gotten all the answers and in fact i think there s a lot more shoes to drop from this centipede, this whole issue of the relations with russia and who communicated with him and under what circumstances, clearly cries out for investigation. let s bring back our former congressmen. already, you ve got intel committee, oversight, ethics committee investigations. is the answer more or is it your belief that the air will be
ginger lee to lie are true. a former assistant attorney general told fox news today that he doubts that this rises to the level of obstruction of justice. instructing them to lie simply to avoid personal embarrassment. not a purpose to frustrate that investigation, then that might be a crime. the fact that weiner has said he will cooperate in the investigation suggests that it might not be a drawn out affair as some past ethics committee investigations have been, shep? shepard: have any in the public eye come forward to say we support him, he should not resign? there has been some of that. also there has been some of this. house majority leader eric cantor today said, quote, i don t condone his activity and i think he should resign. rice called for weiner to step down indicating that an investigation is not even needed in this case. asked if he should resign senate