of the united states making statements that were false, probably knowingly false, about amazon, driving the stock price down. if an investor lost money in that stock, the investor could sue him for securities fraud. and those investors ought to be calling a lawyer. it s every day we have a new violation of either the constitution, the federal statutes or the ethics regulations. it s over and over again. and yes, i think people like chris christie are finally getting fed up. and the voters are getting fed up. i ve been fed up with this president ever since he was a candidate. and it was very clear he was going to violate the law if he won the election, and that s what we ve had non-stop. chris christie was talking there, scott pruett, and this apartment he rented down in washington. hugh, you and i have spoke on twitter about this. you are saying it s much ado about nothing. why? scott pruett is a very old friend of mine, and i ve had him
he would have had to share with someone other than his daughter. in a statement a spokesman cited aid finding by an epa ethics officer which was apparently dated today, the day the story broke, to argue there s nothing to see here. demonstrator pruitt s housing arrangement for himself and family was not a gift and consistent with fort worth ethics regulations. tonight there s another odd twist to the story. last year, pruitt s security detail broke down the door of the condo when it was believed he was unconscious and needed to be rescued he was reportedly discovered waking up from a nap. epa used public money to reimburse the condo s owner for the damage. jennifer is energy environment reporter at bloomberg news. a great piece of reporting. so you ve got this it looks like a sweetheart deal, not a fair market deal that the administrator is taking advantage of.
free and all of that for the low low low price of $50 per night. compare that to say this cozy room which journalist brian buttonler which cost more than what pruett paid in an apartment he would have had to share with someone other than his daughter. in a statement a spokesman cited aid finding by an epa ethics officer which was apparently dated today, the day the story broke, to argue there s nothing to see here. demonstrator pruett s housing arrangement for himself and family was not a gift and consistent with fort worth ethics regulations. tonight there s another odd twist to the story. last year, pruett s security detail broke down the door of the condo when it was believed he was unconscious and needed to be rescued he was reportedly discovered waking up from a nap. t epa used public money to reimburse the condo s owner for the damage. jennifer is energy environment
secretary. given his nebulous responsibilities, mr. fox said why does he need to have meetings about making loans to his company? so i think it s a very good question. why is he kind of uniquely positioned to be the person to interact with apollo or city group. what happens now? well, i think it s very difficult for us to know. obviously there are potential violations of the ethics regulations. but whether anyone will seek to enforce those is another matter. obviously there are also implications this tells us a lot potentially about how companies are seeking to do business with the administration. obviously all these companies that are meeting with mr.
a white house job, with joshua harris. and that, on its own, raises concerns about the subsequent financial transaction between kushner companies and apollo. to be clear, there s a number of very, in some cases, specific, in some cases potentially nebulous triggers to determine if this actually is a violation of the ethics regulations or the law. or potentially a bribe. yeah, i m not going to speculate about that. but you know here, when you have a situation where, you know, jared kushner potentially, threw his company, through his company seeking a loan from apollo. that creates a certain relationship between him and mr. harris, which in turn prohibits him from engaging in other sorts of decisions and conversations as a government official. we have no indication that he did that. but it certainly puts him into a kind of a zone of potential problems, right? i mean he s kind of running into, okay, now he s got this relationship potentially with harris. mm-hm.