you know, don, i was looking at the video of when charlie rangel got censured ten years ago, and the person holding the gavel was nancy pelosi. so she was censuring one of her own. and i think this is an occasion where we shouldn't be trumpists or non-trumpists. this is about decency. i remember when kathy griffin, a comedian, tweeted out what she said was a joke that was thought to be in very bad taste. she got put through the wringer by the u.s. secret service. she lost many jobs. she had to apologize. she went through hell. i would suggest we cannot hold a

something that will be in his obituary, same with charlie rangel ten years ago, december 2 of 2010. that's when he was censured. again, this doesn't happen very often. prior to that you have to go back to the 1980s to find a member that was censured. three in the last 40 years, neil. >> neil: if he's re-elected, does the censure carry on? >> yeah. it's on your record. the key thing there is even if democrats let's say -- let's say democrats hold on to the house. they could make a decision to allow him to serve on committees, this is the bridge too far that a lot of members on the republican side of the aisle thought was different about this censure resolution with paul gosar. they didn't like the idea that they were precluding him from committees. that's the key part. if you go to the wrangle resolution, talked about resolution and other types of sanctions for charlie rangel. this was very specific. you saw quickly it happens. i remember with the rangel censure because -- i've been around here a long time. i had never seen one. he walked very dolefully down the center aisle. his hea

the last time we saw a censure vote was for charlie rangel for an ethics violation. this hasn't happened for a while. as you mentioned, it is a resolution to both censure paul gosar and strip him of the two committees he serves on. it's worth noting that congresswoman ocasio-cortez serves with him on one of those committees, so we expect for that vote to happen kind of mid tomorrow afternoon, after they walk through one hour of debate evenly divided on both sides. but this also comes, don, importantly after no, really, action from house minority leader kevin mccarthy who said that there was a closed door meeting earlier today where gosar and mccarthy's words explained his actions, but mccarthy said he called him in the last week that the video came down, but mccarthy has never explicitly condemned any of it, so now democrats, of course, moving forward with this censure vote tomorrow. >> jessica, for this censure to work, the congressman has to be present in the house chamber. explain that and what happens if he doesn't show up, please. >> reporter: right, so, again,

you know, don, i was looking at the video of when charlie rangel got censured ten years ago, and the person holding the gavel was nancy pelosi. so she was censuring one of her own, and i think this is an occasion where we shouldn't be republicans or democrats, trumpist or non-trumpist. this is about decency. i remember when kathy griffin, a comedian, tweeted out a joke. what she said was a joke that was, i thought, in very bad taste. she got put through the ringer by u.s. secret service. she lost many jobs. she had to apologize. she went through hell. i would suggest that we cannot hold a member of congress to a lower standard than we hold kathy griffin, a comedian. you know, scott has school-age children. he knows very well that if one of his children tweeted this out about one of their classmates, scott would be called into the office. the child would be expelled or suspended. there would be psychologists called, maybe police. you and i couldn't do this, working for cnn. so there needs to be an equal playing field, and we cannot lower the bar. there needs to be some accountability

the most recent as we know was charlie rangel in 2010 for ethics violations. i remember covering that at the time. he was re-elected twice after that. so assuming he -- paul gosar is, and we expect him to be censured today. will it have any real life consequences for him? >> well, getting kicked off of his committees. when you get kicked off your committees, it makes it hard for you to be effective as a member of congress, to get things done for your constituents. in the past when lawmakers have been booted from their committees, sometimes their constituents have responded to that by putting in different members of congress who they think might be able to be more effective. >> how much do people outside of washington, because you heard some of the republicans try to make the case. people outside the beltway are focusing on this. they kept bringing up the republicans. they kept, you know, bringing up inflation, even though that was not what this vote was about today. they clearly are trying to do that, but they tried to argue that's what they care about. they d

rangel, kindly appear in the well. >> reporter: the last was democrat charlie rangel in 2010 for violating house ethics rules. at least two republicans, liz cheney and adam kinzinger, are expected to vote with democrats to censure gosar. andrew. >> em, thank you. >>> the flood emergency in the pacific northwest is far from over. more evacuation orders have been issued in part of washington state. nearly 18 inches of rain are pushing rivers over their banks. one man is missing after his car was swept away by floodwaters and the mayor of a town just over the border in canada says pumps were overwhelmed and residents face a, quote, significant risk to life in areas where the water has receded, a muddy mess remains. this was the scene in one homeowner's basement. nearly 50,000 power outages were reported in washington. also north of the border a mudslide in british columbia killed at least one woman. hundreds of people were rescued from their cars. >>> turning to the pandemic covid cases have jumped nearly 30% in the last several weeks fueling fears of another winter surge. michigan currently

>> reporter: this is the first time a house member has been censured since 2010 when charlie rangel faced multiple house violations. kevin mccarthy called wednesday's vote an abuse of power. >> this is an old definition of abuse of power. rules for thee, but not for me. that's exactly what's happening here today. house democrats preparing once again to break another president of the united states house of representatives. >> reporter: ocasio-cortez criticized mccarthy for his inaction. she said he nor gosar ever reached out to her following the video. >> in response to the republican leader's remarks when he says that this action is unprecedented, what i believe is unprecedented is for a member of house leadership of either party to be unable to condemn incitement of violence against a member of this body. what is so hard -- what is so hard about saying that this is wrong? >> reporter: house minority leader kevin mccarthy also suggested during his remarks on the floor on wednesday that there could be retribution toward democrats if the gop retakes the house majority in 2022, that they mig

rangel tax evasion and ethics to actually physically attacking members of congress on the floor. this is not a tough call. but because it's downstream from donald trump where if you censure paul gosar if you're a republican you're also condemning donald trump on an almost daily basis, that creates an impediment. what we saw instead were a whole series of lies and crocodile tears and threats, all basically previewing the campaign themes. >> and good performances. >> really? >> i was listening, i was like wow, this is very dramatic. and it was like performance art. >> they wanted it. >> the most performance art moment for me was lauren boebert really just going for the gold -- >> hold it. can we talk about that when we come back? >> yeah. >> i want to get a break in because i know i want to ask -- it will be the first thing i ask on the other side. we'll be right back. uh carl, are there different planning options in here? options? plans we can build on our own, or with help from a financial consultant? like schwab does. uhhh... could we adjust our plan... ...yeah, like if we buy a

we expect this to be largely along party lines, back in 2010, charlie rangel. after an individual is censured, they have to go to the well of the house and listen to the charges, why they were subjected to a rare form of punishment by the house. but also, in addition to this, paul gosar is poised to have his committee assignments stripped, two including one very influential one on the oversight committee and one on the nat. >> ron: resources committee. that is also a rare action. house democrats did that earlier this year when they stripped marjorie taylor greene of her committee assignments. they plan to do it as well in the aftermath of that violent video he tweeted last week. i caught up with house speaker nancy pelosi about all this last night. i asked her about why they're taking this action. >> why go after him? >> yes. >> because he made threats, suggestions about harming a members of congress. that's an insult, not only a danger to that member, but an insult to the house of representatives. we cannot have members joking about murdering each other as wel

the last time it happened was 2010 against charlie rangel over an ethics violation, but for a party to try to censure another member, republicans have done it as recently as april, jonathan. >> yeah. a little bit of hypocrisy there, leigh ann. remember the congresswoman felt she was being personally targeted during the riot. i don't think we can blame her or other democrats to not trust republicans looking to insight more violence. >>> shifting gears while we have you, the build back better act, that's happening this week. debate starts today. perhaps we also should know and hope you can figure us in when we'll get that cbo score, which a lot of members are looking to see before they let it impact their votes. tell us where we are right now on the state of play and the build back better act in the house. >> yeah. democrats hope to have that cbo score perhaps as early as today, most likely tomorrow. that's what the congressional budget office said, which i will add is quite quick for the cbo to come out with a score, a cost analysis on this massive piece of legislation. democrats are pr

that happened in 2010 when charlie rangel of new york faced a similar situation, similar reprimand by the house and the speaker at the time was also nancy pelosi reading aloud and she did just that moments ago. >> the house will be in order. will representative gosar present himself in the well. by its adoption of house resolution 789, the house has resolved that representative paul gosar of arizona be censured. that representative paul gosar forthwith present himself in the well of the house for the pronouncement of censure. that representative paul gosar be censured with the public reading of this resolution by the speaker. and that representative paul gosar be and is hereby removed from the committee on natural resources and the committee on oversight and reform. >> standing at the well with paul gosar along with like-minded allies, conservatives part of the house freedom caucus. after that gavel was banged down, congresswoman marjorie taylor greene yelled out, quote, what about eric swalwell, referring to the democrat on the house intelligence committee who -- that republicans are

charlie rangel had been found guilty of 11 separate campaign finance violations. this is not reporting all of his income. this is using campaign income to pay for stuff in his congressional office. this was a long time coming. the house ethics committee investigating for a long time. and obviously mr. gosar. now, let's go through what happened. as you know, the video showing a photo shop of gosar killing alexandria owecasioocasio-corte. he puts the video back up. he retweets the video where someone included. not exactly the picture of remorse, brianna. this is important. this is not paul gosar's first trip around the controversy machine. in 2017, he said that an obama sympathizer, his words, was responsible for the charlottesville. the day after john mccain was diagnosed with a brain tumor, gosar's chief of staff texted a lawyer for the governor, doug ducey, and said he would be interested in the seat. he has been on the front end of promoting qanon conspiracy theories. appeared at a february event with a height supremacist. and he has called for not just another

the last time this happened was back in 2010 with congressman charlie rangel over multiple ethics motions. marjorie taylor greene was stripped from her committees, she was not censured. it underscores the gravity of the situation. what is unique about a censure situation, congressman gosar will be required to stand in the well of the house and listen as this resolution is read. we know that there will be an hour of debate divided evenly on both sides and they will proceed and vote. it is required that gosar is there. now, he could not show up and the sergeant at arms could go and find him and haul him into the house of representatives, although house democrats have underscored that that is highly unlikely that that will transpire. gosar has said that he had no ill intent with any of this, but he's never apologize and had congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez telling cnn she never got an apology from gosar or house leader kevin mccarthy. gosar doubled down on everything and made her some sort of representative for undocumented people and that should result in death or murder. so it will b

because folks have been censured for everything from charlie rangel over tax and ethical implications to consulting a speaker to attacking a colleague on the floor. at core, all that noise boils down to this. is it all right to threaten the life of a colleague, especially after january 6th. that is what this is about. nothing else. >> s.e., we heard many of the republicans try to make the case that as we were talking about, there's a double standard and for instance, maxine waters had said something they considered inflammatory but didn't face these repercussions. do you think that that's a good analogy? what do you make of that argument? >> if your argument is that it's hypocritical, you should be arguing for gosar to be censured. and then say, and also maxine waters and we want democrats to apply the same standard. and, therefore, we're going to censure gosar. but it was stunning how hard republicans worked to avoid saying what is simple and takes zero courage which, of course, is that members of congress should not tweet out violent death fantasy videos about other members of congr

the last time it happened was in 2010, representative charlie rangel for an ethics violation, but democrats say they've tried to ask leader mccarthy to go through the ethics committee, to open an investigation. something that he ignored, so they have to move forward with this censure resolution. it is expected to pass and also, republicans have done this recently, as well, as recently as 2019. they tried to censure maxine waters, so there's a lot of hypocrisy on the other side on this issue, but democrats do plan to move forward and this is expected to pass this censure of representative gosar, which i said, steph, is not really that common up here on capitol hill. >> okay. so let's say it passes. then what happens? >> reporter: well, if it passes, then that censure resolution is read on the house floor and representative gosar is going to have to stand in the house well, in front of all of his members, as it is read. it will also be on c-span and what whatever networks decide to take it, as well. but i will also said that a lot of democrats are drawing a direct line from this to january 6t

it would be the first time since charlie rangel with center back in 2010 that a member of congress has been censured to that punishment. want to jump back to brunswick, georgia, where travis mcmichael one of the men whose accused of killing ahmaud arbery is taking the stand. moments ago, he said that he believed at the time that ahmaud arbery was armed with a handgun and they played a recording of a 911 called that mcmichael made telling the operator he believed that arbery had a gun in his left pocket and he was likely prepared to use it. let's listen in as the defense attorney resumes taking testimony from his clients, travis mcmichael. >> alarming why? >> i would think that anyone acting normal would do that. someone that is willing to act like they have a gun or act like they will harm you to prevent you from doing anything there and be normal and nonchalant. ed sets off alarms for me. >> okay. >> it's bold. the way that he's acting is very... it's a bold move. >> you mentioned that you are aware of boat equipment being stolen back in october from the house. did you see any of the

charlie rangel in 2010 was the last member of kong to be kens sewers. but it was after a very long ethics process. the reason why democrats moved so swiftly here is because he chose not to engage or work with democrats to try to find a way to move forward with an ethics investigation. >> i want to show you, eugene, something speaker pelosi said. and everyone eluded to this. this isn't just about paul gosar. it is about this moment. it is about this unprecedented threat environment and it is about threats of violence directed not just as a democrat but a democratic woman. watch. >> madam speaking, why did you feel like you have to act today on paul gosar? why do you feel like you have to act today? >> et cetera an emergency, violence against women, workplace harassment. really, i think legal matters in terms of threatening a member and threatening the president of the united states. this is -- we have to address it immediately. this is central to our work in congress that we protect the integrity of the house, of the institution. but also the lives of ou