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>> okay. youve been -- youve been attacked for flying first class. is that illegal? >> congressman, i since made changes to that -- >> it is not illegal. >> it is not. >> it may look bad, but it is not illegal. there was an energy secretary named hazel oleary. she leased party jets that were used by rock stars, party jets, not one time but several times. have you ever rented a party jet? >> no. >> have not rented a party jet. okay, thats good. lets talk about this transparency issue. as i unders...

As he was walking out of the state of union address, 100% its coming out. what do you think the following will be if the fbi objections -- if it really does make the fbi and the doj look as bad as some republican lawmakers suggested dust. >> it gets us into a critical distinction of the white house and others have been trying to make for a while which is there is no war on the fbi. there is no effort to undermine wholesales department of justice and all that it does, this is about the actions of...

Their focus obviously on the transparency issue. >> democrats are lucky they wont be judged on rallying crowds like this. i think republicans are in a tough spot. many of the same arguments they made on obamacare can be made today. democrats are making those arguments and somewhat effectively. with republicans, its numbers. when you look at whats happening in the senate, you have them asking for things. >> bret: at this moment, president trump is arriving in iowa. air force one has touched down,...

Lying to people. >> sean spicer is getting himself in dangerous territory. one can point the finger back at him as far as crowd size or wire tapping or voter fraud. its across the board. its not to say that this is not a very, very tense environment. anybody who was in that off camera briefing with hr mcmaster would tl you it was tense on saturday they wanted to talk about the president learning and all these take aways from europe. people wanted to ask about jared kushner. there was a transpare...

Thing. thats something that happens early on in this presidency. its not just this. what is feeding this idea he doesnt keep his promises is a number of promises. its policies. its transparency. its tax returns. so theres a number of ways in which this can cut against him. if youre in the white house youre weighing what is the benefit of releasing tax returns based on whats in them versus not, which gives you a bigger hit. on the transparency issue, the argument on the logs what they are essenti...

Obama administration wasnt exactly eager to hand these logs over either. there was a transparency issue there as well. you write at the bottom of your column today, it is the way they are positioning it as if no transparency is better than full transparency. >> right. >> that is really problematic. >> right. thats like saying, well, i only went one for four. i got a single in the game. thats not as good as going 0 for 4. that doesnt really pass the smell test. you are right the obama administrat...

Taxes. the issues are real. not wanting to give out the white house guest log. that is a transparency issue. why does trump fight these measures? >> chris, you and i disagreed on a number of things on your show over the past several months. this is one point we agree on. i think transparency in government matters. i think president trump as i stated during the campaign should disclose tax records. the logs of who comes into the white house, that should be public knowledge. why should we be afrai...

One of them is he was demanding transparency for barack obama, thats number one. number two, things arent really going that well in the trump white house, so theres a natural curiosity for people to know whats going on, you know, on the deck, whats happening behind the scenes thats made this operation not work so well right now. hes also flipped positions on so many things and his numbers have plummeted as a result. people dont -- the more people dont trust him now and youve dot to look at the t...

>> he said it was faush faux transparency. >> president obama released six million locks of visitors. to what extent do you think this compounds the transparency issue for the president. >> i think it does in a big way kirstens this is a real difficult wlaf whatever the explanation spicer officer if you are less transparent than a previous administration it looks like youre hiding something. i take hughs points about taxes and isolation might not be a salient issue for millions of people. but wh...

Won and defended the position that they needed to keep some of it secret unless there was a foia request -- >> what happened, to be fair, the court ordered -- they won in court but the obama administration then released most or many logs and redacted ones that they considered national security issues. the question is why cant the trump administration do the same? if its a national security risk, those wont be public, but the rest, open book. >> my suspicion is, in time, they will get to somethin...