Change. Obviously, gop lawmakers behind closed doors voting to put that independent entity again under the thumb of lawmakers. Now democrats, obviously, have fired back quickly, but republicans defending it. Take a listen to one of each. I havent seen it running amok and i dont know i certainly know its bad optics for this to be the ffrts thing for this congress to do. This was a democratic provision put in by nancy pelosi after there was corruption on both sides of the aisle. I think the American Public is not the rating of congress is very low. This will certainly make it lower. My shoep what youll see is more transparency. Youll see individuals with the opportunity to know who is accusing them, and that we will see matters resolved in a more timely manner. Obviously, Marsha Blackburn voteod that proposal, was in that closed door hearing. What you are hearing from sources in that meeting in the room is basically lawmakers were complaining this independent entity was overzealous and g
Obligation freely without any purpose of well and faithly discharge the duties of the office of which you are about to enter, so help you god. I do. Congratulations you are now all members of the 115th members of congress. And nancy pelosi handing the gavel over to paul ryan. Speaking of votes to come, one vote that will not happen this plan to gut the ethics agency, so on the eve of this new 115th congress in the closeddoor session, the House Republicans had voted to kill, that serves as the independent watchdog but then the tweets coming from the president elect and then in an about face the republicans decided to scrap that bid and it remains for now. So manu raju has been on capitol hill. Im sure your head is spinning, but youre cool as a cucumber, walk me through it. Reporter yeah, last night the Republican House did not see this coming, this was a proposal from bob good llad from virgini. This is a long Standing Agency that sometimes over reachreacho their view sometimes in the v
With these breaking details. What do you know . Reporter federal prosecutors in new york are now seeking interviews with Top Trump Organization executives. Look, brooke, this intensifies the fears that the bigger threat to the president and his business may come from new york prosecutors and not muellers team. What we do know is that the new york prosecutors have been looking into two specific areas, one is the Campaign Finance a possible Campaign Finance violation in connection to reimbursements that the Trump Organization made to Michael Cohen for those hush money payments. The other one is financial abuses tied to donations to the inaugural committee. Those are the two specific areas but we dont know if theres another area or if there are multiple other areas and we dont know if prosecutors are asking for interviews with these executives for those two inquiries or possibly something else. We also dont know the extent of these interviews and how serious they are. We dont believe that
Senator warren and an enthusiastic crowd in lawrence, massachusetts today, she promised to fight corruption, calling it putting a cancer on our democracy. And she took aim at the current president. The Trump Administration is the most corrupt in living memory. But even after trump is gone. It wont do just to do a better job of running a broken system. We need to take power in washington away from the wealthy and well connected. And put it back in the hands of the people where it belongs. Warren is trying to move past an earlier controversy. Shes apologized several times, recently for being of native american descent. Now shes joining a number of hopefuls. Three other u. S. Senators. Cory booker, Kirsten Gillibrand and sherrod brown. Joining us now, Emily Tisch Sussman a former staffer on president obamas 2008 campaign. Ill start with you, no surprise Elizabeth Warren laying out a progressive agenda, walking out on to the stage as we showed, announcing her candidacy to Dolly Partons 9 t
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