doing trying to run out the clock, all right, he shows the audience who he is. now, i could have gone and called him a pinhead and i could have done that. but i d rather let him reveal himself to our audience. who is smart enough to know what he s doing. yeah, yeah, yeah. look, here s what we know, ok? charlie rangel is head of the tax writing committee in the house of representatives. for years and years, right? so he was responsible for making all of us accountable so we pay our taxes. we have a certain tax rate, all the rest. turns outhat this guy didn t think the rules really applied to him. he was issued a stinging rebuke by his fellow democrats. ok? by his fellow democrats for the way he treated the house rules. he comes out of that stinging rebuke, the censure and he basically says in the new york times quoted it well, a lot of this was political. that it was political theater. now, if that s not an arrogant and basically irresponsible attitude on the part of someone
who is supposed to be held, frankly, to a higher standard than the rest of us, i don t know what is. bill: i said that to him. he s trying to diminish the charges against him and it wasn t right. i said that. you know what else he said? he was asked by the washington times about, you know, look, average citizens, if they did the same kind of stuff, they probably would get more than a censure, right? bill: i asked him that. well, i don t deal in average citizens. it is the most arrogant and i m so tired of charlie rangel getting away with, oh, well, he was a korean war veteran and he s a nice guy and we love charlie rangel. we re not about that. we re about people, you know, standing up, taking responsibility without any of these cutesy, you know, oh, don t look at me. it was just a good faith mistake. it wasn t a good faith mistake. he knew exactly what he was doing. bill: ok. that s why we have you on afterwards to supply that kind of analysis. but i m not going to sit here
doing trying to run out the clock, all right, he shows the audience who he is. now, i could have gone and called him a pinhead and i could have done that. but i d rather let him reveal himself to our audience. who is smart enough to know what he s doing. yeah, yeah, yeah. look, here s what we know, ok? charlie rangel is head of the tax writing committee in the house of representatives. for years and years, right? so he was responsible for making all of us accountable so we pay our taxes. we have a certain tax rate, all the rest. turns out that this guy didn t think the rules really applied to him. he was issued a stinging rebuke by his fellow democrats. ok? by his fellow democrats for the way he treated the house rules. he comes out of that stinging rebuke, the censure and he basically says in the new york times quoted it well, a lot of this was political. that it was political theater. now, if that s not an arrogant and basically irresponsible attitude on the part of someone
keep the government open, at the united nations, a stinging rebuke. condemning the u.s. decision to recognize jerusalem as israel s capital with 35 countries substaining. u.n. ambassador nikki haley we will remember, when so many countries come calling on us, as they so often do, to pay even more and to use our influence for their benefit. reporter: the action came one day after the president threatened to cut off aid to any country that supported the resolution. they take hundreds of millions of dollar as he then vote against us. well, we re watching those votes. let them vote against us. we ll save a lot. we don t care. reporter: all of this as the president basks in the glow of passing the tax plan, making good on a campaign promise. his first major legislative victory of the year set off praise.
choose between basically placating them with what they want or being responsible. fortunately at the end of the day on most issues, the speaker is finally forced to move over to the middle to work with democrats and in this case pass a bipartisan bill to fund the department of homeland security so that s a good thing. i hope that that will be a lesson for everybody in the congress, but most especially for the folks in the republican conference that they shouldn t do that again over the next few years, but somehow i don t think if they re going to take that advice. i wonder from inside the halls of congress last friday it felt like there were a lot of rebukes to john boehner s speakership. but that one on friday felt like a stinging rebuke. i think that he finally was able to stand up to his right