unfairly. >> what is wrong with having an overzealous watch dog committee? and isn't getting rid of this office the kind of swampy stuff that republicans across america elected donald trump to get rid of? >> they're bringing anonymous charges and trying them in a public arena. a person targeted by that has to defend themselves after they've been attacked publicly when they don't have a right to face their accuser. that's a right that goes right back to jesus himself standing before the high priest. >> i'm going to read it off the screen here, with all that congress has to work on, do they really have to make the weakening of the independent ethics watchdog as unfair as it is? so the president-elect appears to be making the argument that you guys have a lot of other things on their plate. why make this the first move in secret the way it went down last night? >> i would have been happy to bring that to the floor and let