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From monica crowley after her plaigerism scandal and drove up these stock price for that particular firm. congressman tom price still doesnt have a hearing schedule for his nomination to be the new health secretary as more and more stuff comes out about him and his ethics problems, tom price may never get a confirmation hearing as health secretary. he may have his nomination yanked as well. there are problems that come up. there are -- theres sort of a normal level of problems that you expect wi...

Problem for the new administration their only response has been to threaten to subpoena and implicitly threaten the funding of the government of ethics guy. its not going to work. just ask south carolina. think of the south carolina government officials trying to make the decision whether or not donald trump would have to pay for this thing. it is not going to work. not going to work to attack an ethics office, instead of grappling with the ethics problems that are why ethics offices like these ...

The funding of the government of ethics guy. its not going to work. just ask south carolina. think of the south carolina government officials trying to make the decision whether or not donald trump would have to pay for this thing. it is not going to work. not going to work to attack an ethics office, instead of grappling with the ethics problems that are why ethics offices like these exist. they tried to get away with it. the night before the new congress was formed. they tried to get rid of th...

>> president-elect trump is not doing what he needs to do in order to ensure that he can act as president without conflicts of interest and without violating the constitutions emoluments clause. so, this is -- the press conference was really an exercise, a showmanship exercise of going through the motions of doing something about the ethics problems he faces without doing what he actually needs to do. >> emoluments, by the way, merriam webster just tweeted its their number one lookup. people loo...

Certainly wouldnt make if it was a democrat who was setting up. >> john dean, one of the characteristics of the watergate era was that you had republicans, even barry goldwater, who were willing to turn on the president of the united states, a president of their own party, when they saw the illegality, that criminality was afoot. why dont more republicans stand up? they surely must see the unqualification, they must see the ethics problems. its impossible that they dont know this is going on. wh...

We all remember how challenging, how long the process was to actually put it in place to get it passed. so what does that look like? he has majorities in both chambers. how quickly could this happen? how difficult will it be? >> i think reconciliation is to move exat tpeditiously but i th obamacare premiums and deductibles are riding on dining room tables with secretary clintons ethics problems especially in pennsylvania, wisconsin. i just learned before i came out on the first time since 1928, ...

Because theyre afraid of donald trump, or theyre unwilling to support donald trump. but what happens to them if she were to double-cross them on tpp? do they take their medicine? or do they scream and yell? what happens if she continues with all of her ethics problems, but from the white house with more goodies to sell? does the media then stay on board with her? does the media turn on her? i think its going to be a rough road for hillary clinton. >> i can speak for -- quickly, on the bernie fac...

The last four years, im your only ticket to the white house. >> i mean in terms of being a historic candidate. when you meet base democratic voters, they see her as a fresh face, because she would be the first feek male candidate president of the united states. there are a lot of vulnerabilities out there. >> if biden gets in -- this was the thing that was interesting about your draft biden thing, does he get in to win? right now bernie answers and martin omalley are dancing around hillary clint...

He paid almost $2 million. but cut that back to less than 10,000 at a time to illegally evade federal bank transaction rules. when asked, he lied to the fbi saying he didnt feel the banking system was safe and saying kwet i kept the cash. thats what im doing. >> and pete williams joins me now from the newsroom. this is a mystery. dennis was brought in as speaker after bob livingston and newt gingrich both had ethics problems. >> i think everybody is very surprised by this because he was consider...

But there is maybe an anti-incumbent atmosphere out there or is it just uniquely two guys who outstayed their welcome? >> i think thats probably closer to it. i think the mississippi race there is more of an ideological issue there with tea party people thinking he is not sufficiently conservative. we know hes conservative. with rangel, i think it really is a question of has he stayed too long. hes obviously been a tarnished figure because of the ethics problems that he ran into and he had a ver...