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Prince William County Supervisor Andrea Bailey announced her candidacy for the 7th Congressional District on Wednesday.

Del. Elizabeth Guzman, 31st District, on Thursday joined a growing pack of Democrats running for Congress in the 7th District to replace outgoing Rep. Abigail Spanberger who recently announced her

Introduction In our last Review, we reported that the National Labor Relations Board had a very busy year.  Despite the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020 was also a fairly busy year for the Board.  In its final year, the Trump Board produced a number of key decisions for employers.  Whether those decision stand the test of time remains to be seen, because the Biden Board will soon begin its work.  In the meantime, we will review the highlights from 2020 and preview some of the possi...

From the white house podium with the official u.s. government seal behind them. >> and sell javankas shoes and hats. some of the violations werent just around political conduct. i think some of them were around buy this, buy that. >> thats right, shes a repeat offender, and the repeated offenses were starting to attack from the white house democratic candidates, which is an obvious gross abuse of government resources and a violation of the law. >> rich painter was my ethics official, so i couldn...

Buy this, buy that. >> he repeat offenses were starting to attack from the white house democratic candidates, which is an obvious gross abuse of government resources and a vielgolation ofe law. >> rich painter was my ethics official, so i couldnt even have a soda by your colleague, who is a white house correspondent for "the washington post." >> was he trying to bribe you for stories? >> no. he did offer to buy me a coffee. the laws were so strict. i wanted to read some of what the hatch act say...

Department of justice ethics official to recuse himself from the mueller probe, and thats raising concerns on capitol hill. lets bring in our legal experts, ava freeman, a civil rights attorney and law professor joining us from cleveland. and criminal defense attorney richard herman joining us if las vegas. good to see you as well. happy holidays to both. >> richard, you first, while the ethics official recommended whitaker recruise himseuse hims note there was no legal conflict that would requi...

Scott pruitt, luxury lobbyist logic? oh, i told the ethics official. he said, wait a minute, you didnt make full disclosure. we need to know, did ross make full disclosure? would be one, there is the other pattern, mr. ross, there have been serious allegation as to him and as to so many others in this organization, even the president of the united states is the subject of a criminal investigation. so those patterns matter, too. >> we continue to dig on all of the above. ambassador, good to have ...

>> what do those people have in common? they dont work for the trump administration anymore, so scott pruitt is hoping not to join that list. >> thanks very much. lets get some perspective from david riff kin. he is a constitutional lawyer formerly worked for the department of justice. he also works with scott pruitt, knows him personally. when you see all these allegations against him, you know him well. david, what do you think? >> let me just make a couple points. for example, the facts are n...

Goes about his business. theres concern among different aid aides. youre seeing the fallout after that. sources say if theres not more bad headlines, the white house will probably keep him around. that seems unlikely, just over the last 12 hours, the epa inspector general, the ethics official, says that he didnt have all the information he needed to clear the condo deal. were not going to be -- were going to keep talking about this. >> scott pruitt was offended when ed henry asked him about the ...

Stuff. and the white house thumbed its nose at osc and said were not going to do anything about it. we dont agree with you. thats really shocking because osc is headed by a recent trump appointee who they said good things about when they appointed and he really did something brave taking a stand and making a finding that she did something, but they did nothing about it. then at the cabinet level, you have the head of v.a. david shul ken deceiving an ethics official. when he got tickets to wimble...