judge s ruling, and secondly, you may have other states try to adopt a like like this and send it up to a different circuit, let s say the fifth circuit in the southeast, and that s another strategy to try to keep this momentum alive even though the judge effectively killed this bill. jenna: the story continues, william, thank you very much, coming from phoenix today. jon. jon: he was once one of the most powerful lawmakers on capitol hill but in two hours, congressman charlie rangel of new york is set to appear before a house subcommittee, where his colleagues will spell out the ethics charges against him. our molly henneberg is keeping keeping an eye on it from washington. you just got a new tape from congressman rangel. what does he say? reporter: first of all, no word of a deal. it looks like at least at this point we re going ahead with that 1:00 eastern time public hearing where a committee will hear the findings of an investigative committee that was looking into the allegat
charlie rangel. yes he made new comments this morning and was talking about his autobiography that he wrote in 2007 and that autobiography was called and i haven t had a bad day since which was referring to his experience in the korean war. here s more of what he said this morning: 30 years ago, i survived a chinese attack in north korea, and as a result, having survived that, i wrote that i haven t had a bad day since. today i have to reassess that statement. thank you. reporter: rangel and his lawyers so far have not asked to speak at that 1:00 public hearing today. they could ask to speak before it begins or they may speak to the media afterwards, jon. jon: so this is a hearing, not actually a trial for him reporter: right. what will happen today is the two people who headed up