Chuck Todd of MSNBC tweets:
NBC News has learned Charlie Rangel will voluntarily give up his Ways and Means chairmanship, possibly as early as tonight.
This has been building all afternoon as more and more Dems seemed to publicly drop their support for the embattled veteran from Harlem. The Politico quotes a "senior Democratic aide" as saying, ""The dam broke today."
That said, it probably should have happened quite some time ago.
UPDATE: Charlie says not so fast.
UPDATE II: Politico says Charlie ain't going anywhere...yet.
Charlie Rangel emerged from a closed-door meeting in Nancy Pelosi's office Tuesday night to declare that he's still the chairman of the Ways and Means Committee and hasn't agreed to give up his gavel - even as some media outlets were reporting that he'd done just that.
But asked whether he'd still be the chairman tomorrow and in the coming days, Rangel said: "I can't make all those promises at my age."
And when Pelosi was asked whether Rangel was resigning, she said "no comment." |
