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In his resignation letter, lord geidt made it clear that he had been on the verge of standing down over the downing street lockdown parties and the way the prime minister had dealt with the issue. but he says he finally resigned over a separate matter. he is second ethics adviser to resign in two years. 0ur deputy political editor, vicki young, reports. hes walked out of his job and today we got a partial explanation. lord geidt had previously talked about his frustration being borisjohnsons adv...

Back to the perfect phone call, he had knowledge of what rudy was doing and instructed mr. skblemr. mr. zelensky to be in contact with rudy. not only does he create a situation of truth abuse himself but he puts rudy in trouble because what if the president is believed. so, wait a minute, you were the presidents lawyer but you were over there doing things that he didnt know about? were you operating in the interest of your client or not? its a problem both, isnt it? >> oh, absolutely. obviously ...

Whistle-blower. there are efforts that committee members can make to further what they believe the facts are. i am not sure it adds up to an ethics issue for nunes or conflict of interest. >> and how about this. ought he to have said that he had this meeting if indeed it happened. should that have been revealed, michael? is that the main concern? >> well, certainly, it should have been revealed if he had the meeting, and that would have been in his best interests if only to preempt stories like ...

Clearance. >> theres two issues. necessarily all about elections, typically the security clearance, what youre looking but it certainly can be about what the next election will for is somebody be put under pressure by a foreign government bring. and nancy pelosi told these same to reveal classified information either because financial moderates, look, if you vote interests are at stake or with us, if we stay unified, because their personal interest that you will get more attention is at stake or...

Heidi heitkamp and claire mccaskill should be more vulnerable than they are. >> bill, anything you would like us to watch? >> it is interesting that bob mendez, having to spend money to defend the seat, republican opponent campaigning on being an honest marine, hammering on the ethics issue. i think men and as will pull it out. and taking resources from the democrat party. democrat party. >> john mccain will look at his to the junior prom with.

North dakota and missouri where heidi heitkamp and claire mccaskill should be more vulnerable than they are. >> bill, anything you would like us to watch? >> it is interesting that bob mendez, having to spend money to defend the seat, republican opponent campaigning on being an honest marine, hammering on the ethics issue. i think men and as will pull it out. and taking resources from the democrat party. >> john mccain will look at his influence on american politics and foreign policy. you need ...

Between an independent counsel and special counsel but there are important similarities, joining me is an attorney an former u.s. congresswoman. she was one of the authors of the ethics in government act, which governed this whole idea. while that has evolved and changed, this particular case, this law expired in 1998 or 1999. but, the special counsel is based on a similar concept, that someone other than the president can appoint a prosecutor. >> right. well the basic idea is government in ethi...

Surprise and so now were following up. >> when the government ethics office, part of the news they broke is that they said that the white house counsels office is already looking into this matter as an ethics issue. the letter goes into some detail as to what ethical issues and criminal issues could be at stake here. >> correct. it talks about potential bribery laws being violated, ethical violations. basically the whole gist of it is, you know, a public official has to put national interests fi...