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Vicksativick fixations. its not the way the head of states speak to each other, and the conversation was not completely organized said th source. also speaking of slogans tonight, trump found time today within 20 minutes of his morning intelligence briefing to weigh in on some family business issues, tweeting about a department store that is discontinuing his daughters apparel line. my daughter ivanka has been treated so unfairly by nordstrom. she is a great person, always pushing me to do the r...

Department store that is discontinuing his daughters apparel line. my daughter ivanka has been treated so unfairly by nordstrom. she is a great person, always pushing me to do the right thing. terrible, exclamation point. today some ethics experts argue that tweet is unseemly and might even give businesses grounds to sue the president. but lets be clear. the president has wide legal authority to say what he wants. the issue isnt that he is violating a law, but rather when you remember this, viol...

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Law. it bars public employees for using private office from endorsing any product. heres what conway told fox news on thursday. >> i do find it ironic you have some executives all over the internet bragging about what they have done to her and her line, and yet they are using the most prominent woman in donald trumps -- most prominent -- his daughter, and they are using her, who has been a champion for women in power and women in the workplace to get to him. go buy ivankas stuff is what i would ...

Significant questions. >> indeed, it does, erin. remember, congress in 2012 passed the stock act, which was designed to prevent lawmakers from trading stock based on any sort of inside information they may have gleaned from the legislative process. now ethics experts tell me, this particular case raises insider trading concerns. and thats because congressman price purchased stock as much as $15,000 in one major medical device maker, zimmer bio med, and that would have been hurt by a federal rule...

Serious ethical questions surrounding his pick for health and human services, tom price. thats where we begin tonight. we broke the story. what have you learned? >> reporter: anderson, congress price purchased $15,000 in stock in one major medical device maker. that company would have been hurt by a federal medicare rule affecting hip and knee implant manufacturers. those account for a majority of the revenue for them. less than a week after purchasing those shares, price offered legislation tha...

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Pieces of legislation that he could actually get through congress, but it stalled, and it never ultimately got approved, and so it was vulnerable to this from a president trump. so i do think hes going to get some pushback from members of his own party, from free trade proponents who say we negotiating trade deals is very thorny, very complicated and ultimately could wind up costing more american jobs. of course, president trump would counter that and say that the trade deals that have been put ...