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House aides to communicate with news organizations even if they involve a former client. bannon was the head of breitbart, a far right website and before the white house issued the waiver bannon was subject to the ethics pledge barring him from communicating with breitbart and this waiver could get him off the hook because the white house made the waiver retroactive back to day one of the trump administration. that mans bannon could have violated the original pledge and this waiver covers prior conversations. now, the head of the office of government ethics flatly told mow said there's no such...

Seriously, jake. >> christina, is there any way that the democrats who are objecting to president trump's organization breaking this promise, is there any way they can force the trump organization to keep the promise? >> no, and you've hit on the big problem here. there's no oversight. under this plan the trump organization defines foreign profit, it decides who qualifies, and it decides the process that's going to happen. now, ethics experts say this is the fox guarding the hen house. there's just too much room for shenigans here, not to mention a possible violation of the emolument's class w...

He wasn't involved. secondly, i think we talked about this before, the president and congress are looking at how to look over the entire visa program, all the various visa programs and whether or not they are serving the purpose that they were intended to. >> dana bash joins us now. you have been talking to sources. what are you learning? >> according to a source who is familiar with what nicole kushner meyer was trying to do insists what she was trying to explain at the time that she dropped her brother's name is the history of the kushner family talking about her father and talking about her...

The history of the kushner family talking about her father and talking about her brother and so forth. she realizes there's a backlash that was regrettable. she shouldn't have done that. one thing we don't know still is whether or not when jared kushner divested himself and moved away from his company, whether he explicitly said to his family, don't use my name, don't say anything about me, because that would in effect be at least the appearance of a conflict of interest. that's what some ethics experts say he should have done. >> it's hard to believe that they're blaming whoever people -- i d...

Along with leaders of other nations, including the president of china, who trump has become close with. so, it's really shaping up to be kind of a proxy battle for our role in these kinds of things, and it is to be determined, but the president is supposed to go abroad and make a decision soon here, but it's really interesting to watch. and we've seen this on other issues, too. campaign promises meet the reality of governing and our role in the world has really changed in terms of how the president sees these things. >> on foreign policy, as we were just discussing as well. >> absolutely. >> k...