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The mar-a-lago crowd, they were pushed out. that includes a former va secretary david shulkin. he left the agency in march because he had ethics problems. they grew frustrated with shulkin after disagreeing with various issues, fill us in on what happened. >> over time at the beginning they had sort of an uneasy relationship with shulkin. they met him before he was confirmed. from the beginning they said, we dont have to meet every month, but were going to talk regularly, and shulkin you could t...

Some of his ethics problems and some of these scandals. although, again, theres also a lot of republicans who would love the president to come to his district, so thats sort of the challenge the white house is trying to figure out. where can you send him where he turns out the base and where do you send him that he absolutely tanks the thing for the person hes trying to elect. >> big thanks to all of you on this thursday. tariffs cost jobs. a south carolina plant ready to close because of the ...

Going to be a negative story, he tried to -- he bet on this companys stock going down. he made some money off of it. that would be insider trading, if thats what happened. and even worse, if essentially he was betting on shares going down because of his own ethics problems and he made money off of that. >> noah, thank you. coming up next, a former trump adviser is apologizing to a racist remark to an african-american guest this weekend.

Am i crazy its just wildly inappropriate? wildly inappropriate to send, to the official government employee scheduler accepted a message to the ceo of chick-fil-a about an exciting business opportunity in which you then pitch a franchise for your wife when are you a cabinet secretary? >> dont you just love his response by the way, sure, we love chick-fil-a. we need more of that in this country. its all about the chain. >> not just in this country, back in oklahoma. >> theres no doubt its wildly ...

Developed doers, the way the contractors work. everyone takes it seriously. they take the public trust seriously. they take it seriously you dont call up the ceo of chick-fil-a to say can my wife have a franchise. tell me im not crazy here that this is aberrant behavior. >> youre not crazy. this is aberrant behavior. especially the new political cadre comes into town and they are extraordinarily so lis to us of what the career folks will say about these things every little issue will be run by t...

Contractors work. everyone takes it seriously. they take the public trust seriously. they take it seriously you dont call up the ceo of chick-fil-a to say can my wife have a franchise. tell me im not crazy here that this is aberrant behavior. >> youre not crazy. this is aberrant behavior. especially the new political cadre comes into town and they are extraordinarily so lis to us of what the career folks will say about these things every little issue will be run by them. whereas clearly pruitt a...

Inappropriate? wildly inappropriate to send, to the official government employee scheduler accepted a message to the ceo of chick-fil-a about an exciting business opportunity in which you then pitch a franchise for your wife when are you a cabinet secretary? >> dont you just love his response by the way, sure, we love chick-fil-a. we need more of that in this country. its all about the chain. >> not just in this country, back in oklahoma. >> theres no doubt its wildly inappropriate and everythin...

Let them out of a certain amount of ethanol for their fuel which is important to grassley in his state where hes from. if youre unhappy with the situation with scott pruitt, they may be calling for him to resign, but so far, not a ground swell on all of that pile of ethics problems. >> well, if he didnt get the message, maybe that $33,000 phone booth isnt working. up next, money, power, politics. president trump filed for financial disclosure forms so what can we expect to find? later today, d...

Pruitts trips. thats just the latest. there are investigations into his travel expenses, security detail and other possible ethics problems. joining us now is christine todd bhitman, great to have you here. you did this job. you know what this position entails. do you think scott pruitt is fit for this job? >> no. i really dont. i think these ethical lapses have been amazing and what theyve done is theyve undermined the morale, that combined with his approach to the epa which is i hate it, i don...

The work of the agency do something outside of that. you have another use of imporp government resources and another indication that scott pruitt has to go not only because of these actual individual violations that it appears hes been committing but send the message. weve had cabinet member after cabinet member with these ethics problems and without demonstrating that these people will be taken out when these ethics violations become clear. you just cant send the proper message. >> thanks so mu...