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Reforms. >> yeah. my reporting is that paul ryan and kevin mccarthy both spoke out against this in this closed door session. of course, they didnt ultimately -- they wn able to do anything about it. what this effectively does is make sure we are likely to never learn about a lot of these scandals. the only reason we know some of the names, you remember bill jefferson, the congressman from louisiana who had money stashed in his freezer, the scandals around that we only know about these things bec...

These are people of extraordinary accomplishment. and they are people that are going to be able to bring the same caliber of intellect, the same quality of experience in the world economy that our president-elect is bringing. were going to be able to go out there and fight for american jobs and fight for americas interests. >> some conservatives not happy. when it comes to donald trumps cabinet, it makes the establishment in goldman sachs great again. this is the swamp draining trump. what do yo...

When it comes to donald trumps cabinet, it makes the establishment in goldman sachs great again. this is the swamp draining trump. what do you tell mark levin? i would tell my friend, all of these appointees are signing on to the trump agenda. whether it be the ethics reforms that were going to advance, whether there be our commitment to cut taxes, to roll back regulations, repeal and replace obamacare, were going to have a team that is ready on day one to work with members of congress to get th...

It was appointing a special prosecutor to appoint hillary clinton and building the wall. if you had to do one, two, three in order of priority, what would it be? >>. >> theres so much that will be. on day one he doesnt need congress to renegotiate nafta. so i think trade will be top of his agenda because he can do that on his own. repealing and replacing obamacare, especially given speaker ryan has a good plan that will keep the good parts weve seen like people who have pre-existing conditions b...

Was pretty forceful, trying to prosecute the case against the clinton foundation and the bigger argument, your politics as usual, you are corrupt. she came back and said the clinton foundation does good work. trump didnt consistently follow up. he didnt keep going. hed been traveling for the last few days talking about ethics reforms, draining the swamp. pretty good way to talk about it. didnt talk about it. >> unbelievable, hes also been talking about term limits, always a good buzzword out the...

>> mr. trump, what if there is overwhelming evidence of any kind of fraud or irregularities -- >> reporter: trump frustrating many republican leaders who are rejecting his allegations of rigging. >> as a republican i want to reassure donald trump and all ohio voters and voters across the country that the system is not rigged. >> reporter: the republican nominee intensifying his feud with house speaker paul ryan after he said he doesnt want to support donald trump. >> maybe he doesnt know how to ...

Rigging. >> as a republican, i want to reassure donald trump and all ohio voters and voters across the country that the system is not rigged. >> reporter: the republican nominee also intensifying his feud with house speaker paul ryan after he said he wouldnt defend trump. >> maybe he wants to run in four years, or maybe he doesnt know how to win. maybe he just doesnt know how 20 win. >> reporter: trump taking his rage against the establishment and hillary clinton a step further in wisconsin. >> ...

How to win. maybe he just doesnt know how 20 win. >> reporter: trump taking his rage against the establishment and hillary clinton a step further in wisconsin. >> it is time to drain the swamp in washington, d.c. >> reporter: trump proposes a package of ethics reforms, aiming to tackle corruption in washington, including tighter restrictions on members of congress and white house officials taking on jobs as lobbyists. >> this will go a long way to ending our government corruption. >> reporter: a...

During his times here, including things like the d.c. opportunity scholarships, which is something that hasnt gotten a lot of media attention but its been a passionate subject for john boehner, working to provide a voucher for students in the district of columbia to go to better schools of their parents choosing and talk about strengthening ethics reforms and talking about things important to conservatives, steps along foreign policy, issues that relate to the abortion rights and conservative po...

Youre pretty new in the job, you were secretary of state for some time. what are the basic, most important priorities? >> for me as oregon governor, my top two priorities are number one, making sure that we restore ethics in oregon as a result of the last several months oregonians had faith in state government eroded. we have a package of ethics reforms. we are working hard to make sure the public and press have access to our open records and so we have a proposal to require the secretary of sta...