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Behold the fiddling foresters, the official old-timy string band of the u.s. forest service. now, i dont know about you, but i personally did not know the u.s. forest service has its own string band, but they do, and theyre fabulous. theyre len, james, tom and doug and theyre all park rangers. they travel around the country performing folk songs about conservation. they are a national treasure, albeit an obscure one. but a few years ago disaster struck the fiddling foresters. until then their we...

Behold the fiddling foresters, the official old-timy string band of the u.s. forest service. now, i dont know about you, but i personally did not know the u.s. forest service has its own string band, but they do, and theyre fabulous. theyre len, james, tom and doug and theyre all park rangers. they travel around the country performing folk songs about conservation. they are a national treasure, albeit an obscure one. but a few years ago disaster struck the fiddling foresters. until then their we...

As chairman i am one of the strongest and fiercest advocates for strengthening the bond between the united states and taiwan. congress has always led the way in supporting taiwan and under my leadership the house foreign affairs committee has done more to elevate the importance of taiwan than at any other time in the past decade. >> thats congressman ed royce. >> this is breaking news. >> its not breaking news. >> i knew mike flynn, jr., worked for his father. are you saying right now he is work...

Interests. now, they have since taken this down, but the very first thing they built online after the election, the very first thing they built online for president-elect trump was this meet the president-elect webpage on the transition website that was provided to the trump folks by the federal government. its a dot-gov website, something you and i pay for. what they put up was an exhaustive list of all of the, quote, worlds top properties that donald trump owns including the world renowned fif...

By the federal government. its a dot-gov website, something you and i pay for. what they put up was an exhaustive list of all of the, quote, worlds top properties that donald trump owns including the world renowned fifth avenue skyscraper trump tower, plus trump park, trump tower, on and on. wait, act now and well send you some knives. in addition to properties that occupy the manhattan skyline, mr. trump also owns many of the premier golf clubs around the world, trump national golf club in west...

Political position is because the way back machine archived his website from back when he was running for congress back in the day. they screen shotted it. we can look at it today. the same way that we as a nation, incidentally, also have proof that on the very first day that he could, the new president-elect started using the resources of the federal government in his position in the white house to enrich himself. to promote his family business interests. now, they have since taken this down, b...

Presidency. this system is not designed for somebody who doesnt care if people know that he is i mean, if youre already using a dot gov website to advertise your properties. if youre using another your wifes jewelry line on qvc, if youre wieng and dining foreign diplomats and telling them it might behoove them to spend their money at the d.c. to take business meetings in the same office with the people who are building your power in mumbai, if youre bringing executives from your business into me...

Presidency. this system is not designed for somebody who doesnt care if people know that he is i mean, if youre already using a dot gov website to advertise your properties. if youre using another your wifes jewelry line on qvc, if youre wieng and dining foreign diplomats and telling them it might behoove them to spend their money at the d.c. to take business meetings in the same office with the people who are building your power in mumbai, if youre bringing executives from your business into me...

Conflicts he wants. this system was not designed for somebody who doesnt mind violating the ethical expectations around the presidency. this system is not designed for somebody who doesnt care if people know that he is self-dealing. i mean, if youre already using a dot gov website to advertise your properties. if youre using another government website to advertise your wifes jewelry line on qvc, if youre wieng and dining foreign diplomats and telling them it might behoove them to spend their mon...

People can say it violates rooms, pete williams of nbc thinks it is fine. >> on the basis of a legal authority. >> it is petes opinion. the country for the good of public policy should deal with the reality. jarrod will be involved. probably not inside the government. probably not. lets figure out what the right standards are. what is permissible, what she do and press on that but lets not act like this isnt going to happen. he will be relying on jared for advice. >> weve talked already about th...