raised by the media, no, it was a bipartisan house investigative committee that was the charges. interesting. around the country raising the most money and fund-raising mirrored in these controversies? crazy. in a strange way, if he doesn t lose his job over this, it doesn t hurt him. bizarre. check this out. a pattern of this thing where back in october, you remember this, mika? yeah. our d.c. cruiser betsy: asked charlie rangel about the ethics probe and here is how he handled that. ethics pajeds investigation penning your work as chairman of the house ways and means? if i did, i wouldn t continue to be the chair. how did you fail to our taxes? i know it s your job and i don t blame you but it s really so rude. wow. i don t think it s going to work. rangel, who gave up his position as chairman of the house, ways and means committee back in march maintains his innocence about this. it we get the whipper snapper on
cases. he once represented the american taliban john walker lindh. molly henneberg in our d.c. bureau. he is among the gitmo nine, what does that mean. reporter: it s a nickname of sorts for the nine lawyers in the u.s. who have represented terror suspects, and tony west is one of the gitmo 9 as foxnews.com reports today. now he s the assistant attorney general for the justice department civil division, but previously as a private lawyer at a san francisco law firm he joined the legal team defending john walker lindh in 2002. he is the american citizen who was captured alongside the taliban in afghanistan in 2001. west helped the team negotiate a deal for john walker lindh that got him 20 years in prison instead of a life sentence. west told a san francisco paper east was working on the case that he took the case to uphold the principles of quote due process and fairness things that he says separates the u.s. from most nations in the world
now, after a 3,000 mile trek by bike across the country, kenny thomas has arrived in washington, d.c. where he hopes to bring his message to lawmakers and even to president obama. kenny thomas joins us from our d.c. bureau along with his daughters katie and chloe that inspired him to pedal his message from california to d.c. welcome to all of you. good morning, thank you. great to have you guys here. kenny, i know this idea was born out of a conversation that you had with your daughters there about the deficit and they didn t know much about it and you figured many americans may not know much about it. so you took off on this trek of 3,000 miles on your bike. you stopped in 100 cities. what did you tell people there about the deficit? what did you learn along the way? well, we really wanted to know what people thought about our national debt. how aware they were and also how concerned they were by it. and then we took a step further because the idea we came up with
she joins us from our d.c. bureau. sarah, what s it going to take to get them to step up? it s going to take a lot of effort on the part of vice president biden. you know, we have been pretty much hands off with their internal political situation for quite a while now in iraq. but, you know, with the drawdown date looming and just 50,000 troops being left, i think this administration really wants to see the iraqi government push forward and solidify something. so, biden, i believe, this trip is is that true most important issue for him right now is to move the process forward. and hopefully he will be able to do that it s going to be very difficult though. it s not going to be easy for him to do. this you know, obviously the sectarian differences run deep. and he will have to make some type of concession. and also he could just say, make a point of saying you know what? you haven t solidified us yet. give us this and we will be your ally and stick with you. right. kind of shiftin
completely separate, from that time. martha: very interesting, we expect more fireworks to come. in all of this and we ll take you back to washington, bret, thank you so much, bret baier monitoring this for us from our d.c. bureau there, go on-line as well to our web site, foxnews.com, all of this will continue streaming live, we have a lot of breaking news and a lot of coverage this morning. so we ll move on now to general petraeus, bill. bill: the second big issue, that faces the future of the country, general petraeus, we fully expect him to be pass the senate hearing and be the man who takes control of our troops and nato forces serving the ground in afghanistan. this after a fiery week, facing the pentagon, the u.s. military after the comments from general mcchrystal were printed in roll stone magazine. what we were just listening to with david petraeus is about the rules of engagement and this is what he said already. he talked about assuring the mothers and fathers of american