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every june. the final days of the supreme court term where you see the running of the reporters. maybe you have seen this scene before. the court of course takes its own time. the big and close cases often spark the most debates and rewrites. they tend to come in these last days of the term, typically late june where clerks and reporters and new reporters, assistants, interns come sprinting out of the court old-school with those key june rulings. in fact, it was late june 12 years ago ...

Gosar. and lauren boebert, scott perry. that helped mccarthy get the speakership. george santos, the embattled republican congressman, someone who has admitted to lying extensively about his resume, did get two committee assignments, considered lower tiered, but mccarthy is refuse to go punish him, because he says the ethics process needs to play out even though several members are calling on him for lies. good to see you, manu. joining me no more is co-host of cnns "state of the union" dana...

>> we have to judge what their product is. the first thing we require them to do in this bill is put a code of ethics on themselves. that would include enforcement capability, a process. again, you cant have justice without process. there has to be a process, we will evaluate what they propose. and if it is not good enough, we will have, you know, time to give up and do our own for them. but the two areas, other than having rules themselves, will be focused a lot on the first is recusals, making...

From the blog of Sarah Ruth Hoffman at The Times of Israel

Rob: crazy to see that plummet. the pay to play scandal or allegations of it involving the clinton foundation first exposed by the watchdog group judicial watch. jillian: here is why lawmakers should be investigating those accusations. >> put forward a secretary of state, concerned about what was going on with the foundation. dont worry, we will have this ethics process. mrs. clinton wont be involved in the clinton foundation at all as secretary of state and our document request found that wasnt...

This the clinton foundation investigation and the obama administration were suppressed by the justice department. >> part of the house oversight committee to examine accusations of pay to play of the clinton foundation. tell us about it. >> better late than never, and finally the clinton foundation which was a vehicle in many ways for foreign nationals and foreign governments influencing the secretary of state. and put forward a secretary of state there were concerns what was going on in bill cl...

Himself. we have an ethics war with the ethics officials undertake analysis on whether the acting ag should recuse. he refuses to submit to that opinion. >> twa are you saying number one the normal process is to request it. that what happened with sessions. he got the advice to step aside and did. number two, you are saying if this person doesnt recuse, there is something important to back it up. donald trump told people, whitaker is loyal and would not have recuse himself from the investigation...

In effect you had mr. ross who moved stocks of navigator would go done. he knew that the "new york times" was planning the story. it was not known to the world. and he had information inside from his experience serving at that company about the inside issue that if exposed might cause the stocks to fall. so it needs to be independently scrutinized. it is fobl if its a violation of the stocking a, insider trading laws. one other thing, weve seen a pattern in this trump administration. >> thats wh...

The inspector generals comments, the new memo that came out on wednesday, basically totally undercuts the defenses that pruitt and his defenders had been offering here. they say this is basically been run through the ethics process. the ethics guy now says it wasnt completely approved. it didnt address the actual ethics concerns about renting from the life of a lobbyist. also i would point out in that memo point out by the ethics official, there is one point at the end where the name of the lobb...

Here. we will see how it shakes out. it seems a cheap shot given the fact that he could have stayed on two more days and received his pension. >> and a race mccabe ultimately lost. the inspector generals report. it has not yet been made public. how much about whether this move is justified boils down to interpretation depending on what political side you happen to fall. >> well, a lot of it. mccabes wife did run as a democrat. there was a donation through terry anything allive. so you can point ...