every night. second question, ben. you cover politics not just scandals. will this be a period or comma? were we hear steve israel, for example, tomorrow talking about the medicare problem for the republicans and the danger to medicare to older people they re posing with their budget plan? will they get back on mark fast enough? democrats hoping to get back on meg. remember with the scandal, the leadership what they d done, how they d handled it. because there s no criminal aspect to this, i m not sure there are more questions to ask nancy pelosi. we ll see. they re going to try hard to stop talking about anthony weiner. sure beats a long ethics hearing. does it? yeah, it does. democrats are breathing a sigh of relief over that. i think democrats will banish the word weiner to the extent that they can from their vocabulary and go back to medicare. they ll be very happy to have
on that topic. in the meantime, let s talk about congressman charlie rangel because you remember that he walked out of his own hearing, the ethics hearing where they were going to decide whether or not he was guilty. so they decided without him because they claim they had all the evidence they needed and yesterday, they found him guilty on 11 of the 13 ethics charges. so here s charlie rangel reacting to being found guilty. well, i think it has if people can look through all the responses from the ethics committee that said there was no self-dealing, there was no corruption, there was nothing there. not a scintilla bit of evidence as related to any criminal activity. as a matter of fact, i thought yesterday that he was going to go on to laud me for my intentions to try to help those kids at city college. and they wanted to complete this before they go on vacation. before they do thanksgiving, before they do christmas.
treatment to tens of thousands of seniors. a high stakes medical showdown is next. and congressman charlie rangel is in trouble over his tax payments on that beach resort, but the caribbean sun can t compare to the heat he s taken today on capitol hill. we ll show you why he walked out of an ethics hearing and what happened after he did. with all due respect, since i don t have counsel to advice me, i m going to have to excuse myself from these proceedings. [ male announcer ] this is rachel, a busy mom.
knew that would be the reaction. his point was let me have my day in the court and the speaker said your day in court is when there is an ethics hearing. we feel very good about the passage of that bill. as a former governor i know what it means. i have kids in public schools. i know what it means to find that support for the school systems across the nation and make sure that our public safety folks are there doing the job we want them to. a big night for the democrats and especially in colorado. a lot of people think the republicans elected an unelectable candidate to face bennet this fall. we feel very good about colorado in both the governor s and senator s race in that we put our support behind michael bennet because he had been doing the heavy lifting for the agenda of change we re putting forth and he won. the republicans picked a candidate we want to run against. so that is a state that in both the golf s race and senator s race now we feel like we got a super chance. s
congressional garage, and there are some things that are in there, that will be a little and he ll have to tap dance around and you heard what he said, he said, look, nobody will force me to do anything, i m going to present my defense, and, i m going to win, and. he ll strike a deal. you always tell your clients, don t say a word like any good criminal defense attorney and so, is what he is saying helping or hurting his case, that he is answering to a higher power? well, he is probably what will wind up happening is behind closed doors a deal will be struck, because everybody including the president of the united states, doesn t want it to go forward and, they don t want to distract america with the ethics hearing and they ll figure out a way to say, charlie, you know, we ll give you a slap on the wrist and seen sur you in sensor you in front of the whole how, and and. the problem is there could be