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Mar 3, 2021 As many of you know, my brain is often spinning. There’s always something coming out of it, often something that gets me in trouble. The other day, I came up with what I thought would be a great headline for The Babylon Bee. If you don’t know what Babylon Bee is, it’s basically the Christian Conservative version of The Onion, a satirical newspaper. The guys at Babylon Bee have been producing content that is both biting and funny for years, but the last couple of months they ha...

Trumps secretary of health and human services, lobbyist, as well. and tomorrow, trumps defense secretary will be run by a defense industry lobbyist. so much swamp draining. literally on the day trump had to replace the aerospace executive he had running the pentagon with the defense industry lobbyist who will run the pentagon instead, it would be hard on that very day for the president to launch his re-election campaign on the promise that hes been busy taking on the lobbyists. right? >> we star...

As i mentioned, the trump administrations ep achieve is a coal industry lobbyist. maybe you can spot the pattern here. hand picked epa director. secretary of health and human services and secretary of the interior and as of tomorrow, trumps defense department will be run by a defense industry lobbyi lobbyist. so much swamp draining. literally on the day trump had to replace the aerospace executive he had running the pentagon with the defense industry lobbyist who will run the pentagon instead, i...

Swamp-draining. our government is being held captive by special interests. this is not a left versus right issue. all americans, 80% americans name it as one of the top two issues of both parties, anderson. they dont want a government that works for the special interests. the special interests of the right or the left. they want a government that works for the public interest. this government is not doing it with these former lobbyists running cabinet agency after cabinet agency. >> the american...

Obama era rule that a lobbyist cannot work in an agency that they lobbied. its led to a crisis of confidence. no wonder you have seen almost 10 million more americans the largest number in history repudiate this and other malfeasance by the trump administration. in the midterm. a referendum on this special interest run away, riding the resolving door. its the opposite of swamp draining. >> same question. is this draining the swamp? >> look, this administration has appointed very qualified people...

Abandoned the trump administration. he had to get out because of cases like the case of mr. wheeler the acting epa head. he worked on the coal ash rules when he was a coal lobbyist for murray energy and hes working on the coal ash rules in the epa . and on issue after issue, the same thing. its the revolving door. mr. bernhardt, who jim mentions as a poster boy of ethics has to carry a card with him. he has almost two dozen conflicts because of his special interest baggage. anderson, it is the o...

Interest runaway riding the revolving door. its the opposite of swamp draining. >> jim, ill ask you the same question. is this draining the swamp? >> look, we have -- this administration has appointed very qualified people to these posts. for instance, acting secretary be be bernhardt, they go through a process and you know better, norm, to say they have conflicts of interest that may be causing them to not be able to do their jobs. they have ethics agreements that require recusals. they have to...

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Of what washington is at its worst. the point is they cant buy trump. >> if interests any possibility that a foreign country is trying to influence the united states government you have to register. okay. so it doesnt matter this wasnt actually a foreign company. the fact that they had a relationship with a foreign company and appeared to be trying to influence the government, he should have registered. so there is something thats very, very shady about this. and you keep saying he didnt get any...