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>> here's why it's problematic. so, giuliani is representing president trump. >> you're smiling in the naughtiest of ways. >> i'm trying to hold back a little bit. my volume will go up. he's representing president trump. he's over in ukraine, let's give him the benefit of the doubt. he's interviewing a witness who can provide helpful information, he believes, in furtherance of that representation of trump. now he tries to strike a side deal with the witness to the tune of a couple of hundred thousand dollars. you know what that does? it squirrels. it renders useless any information he might ge...

Confinement. you bring him, get wiseman, a total animal to go after him. perfectly okay. if it were a terrorist, they would go crazy. but equal rights. >> laura: give him his rights, square meals. >> it includes trump and the terrorists. >> laura: unbelievable. thank you so much. great to see you. >> being a lawyer -- >> laura: i'm so glad i'm a lawyer. oh, my god, drives me crazy. you'd be fired as a first-year associate if you didn't know proper document handling in a litigation, a civil litigation, let alone being a prosecutor and releasing information during your tenure or after. >> 100%, ...

In oklahoma, very surprised by the way he's reacted to the power he's been given in washington. it is about as bush league as anything i've ever seen. >> joe, i want to say something in defense of pruitt here. i think pruitt just missed orientation day. because on orientation day you learn ethics 101, which is that you cannot use your public position for private, personal gain. because in this case, it's so brazen he had to miss that very important lesson, joe, to not know better. he himself calling directly or e-mailing directly. look, there's a lot of this swampy-type behavior that happens a...

Certainly, the propriety is great, in taking the meetings. normally, you'd wall yourself off from somebody your family was doing business with. you wouldn't take a meeting with citi or apollo. that's one-on-one. even lower level people like me, when i was in the department of justice, you would never take a meeting from your old law firm. i'm out on this. somebody else better take it because i don't want someone suggesting i'd do them a favor. >> right. >> ethics 101. the family has kind of run rough shot a bllittle bit over the ethics council in the white house. i think they're banking on an ...

Prevented hip from getti -- prevented him from getting clearance. and i'm joined by robert murphy representing the chicago area and on the house oversight committee. congressman, i missed a very important part in the telling of the story. jared kushner didn't just get a deal with apollo. he got a deal with apollo after meeting at the white house, reportedly with this ceo of apollo and discussing a possible job at the white house with that ceo. >> right. >> and then a meeting at the white house with the ceo of the division at citibank that deals with this. that is just -- it is just -- it is ve...