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You would be giving it to them for free. the fact this is discounted deal, the conflict of interest is also about the perception of conflict of interest. and what is this secretary offering now either now or implied sweetheart deals. politico did a big investigate as well, and, you know, one of the things weve seen is this, for example, ryan zincy speaking of self-dealing, concerns about people of the interior department being asked to share information ahead of time, market valuable information...

When he left. hey, jonathan, im going to read you the quote from "the washington post" about epa administrator mr. pruitt. scott pruetts unusual housing arrangement during much of last year. they talk about it in detail. he paid a lobbyist a modest sum each night for staying in a capitol hill condo she coowned. it has generated a new round of scrutiny about the financial decisions of the environmental protection agency administrator. speak of protections, scott pruitt has been in the news for th...

Going to clean up, he said he was going to drain the swamp. to the extent its been drained, were just seeing the crocodiles and the alligators in there in a lot starker relief. i live on capitol hill. a $1,500 a month apartment is not a bad price, but the arrangement he has with this lobbyist where he only pays her for the nights he stays there, i would love to have that with my bank, for my mortgage. only the nights i stay there do i have to pay the mortgage and the rest of it goes by the waysi...

On the money. i have to ask this finally. i mean, you -- obviously you were on the clinton campaign and you ran against donald trump, who relentlessly attacked hillary clinton and the people in the clinton circle for being corrupt, for self-dealing, for the swamp, et cetera. what is it like to watch these kinds of stories come out where literally the head of the epa is renting a an apparently below-market condo from an energy lobbyist and remember those attacks during the campaign? >> well, look...

Come in. money can do a lot. all right, thank you all very much. and next, the kushner family real estate profits under major scrutiny tonight. did the family enrich themselves by self-dealing, skirting the law? and a book war over mike pences pet rabbit. for all the eyes that get itchy and watery near pollen. theres flonase sensimist. it relieves all your worst symptoms including nasal congestion, which most pills dont. and all from a gentle mist you can barely feel. flonase sensimist. thisre...

Ben smith had an interesting essay where he said the corruption is going to matter. the russia scandal or stormy daniels, any individual thing might not matter but the idea of these people are corrupt, self-dealing will matter pligly. >> heres the thing i question about that. because there is a constant onslaught of different scandals where we call the mini scandals of the stormy daniels to the larger one of corruption and the russia investigations and all of that at the same time and some of th...

Particularly at this point in this presidency, partly i think because they got the tax cut bill passed and there does seem a kind of total drift policywise. its unclear what their project is. >> it changes every day. >> what there are every day is a drum beat of scandals that are stormy daniels level, scandals like maybe the presidents son-in-law used american foreign policy to punish someone that wouldnt lend his dad money. ben smith had an interesting essay where he said the corruption is goin...

Game-changer. 72% exhibited warning and red flags. leland: have to do it, should do it as you point out does not necessarily mean here in washington that it actually gets done. i want to switch gears a little bit, one of the committees that youre on foreign relations, there has been a lot of accusations, a lot of smoke so far, no fire, as it relates to jared kushner, presidents son-in-law as to self-dealing in terms of helping out his family companies while at the same time representing the whit...

Everyone come in its a feast for everyone. you are a cool executive, come on in, run the coal industry. ben carson, why would he be the head of hud? his wife and son own a development business. everything seems like it was about self-dealing and self-enrichment. at some point your party, the republican party has to have seen anything and figured that out. have they figured that out? >> i want to exclude jam mattes mattis who is there for the right reason, he wants to protect the country. we know...

Madison guaranty savings and loan. now, in terms of total dollar amount, it was a drop in the bucket. but the self-dealing that went on there, the conflicts of interest were among the most brazen i had ever seen. >> to raise more funds, jim turned to former little rock municipal judge david hale. >> david hale ran a small business administration-backed lending company called capital management. >> if somebody invested $500,000 in mr. hales company, the sba would match that like 3-to-1. ey would ...