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Related to outside counsel. >> does the president still have confidence in jared kushner? >> absolutely. >> thank you, sean. one of the ethics [ inaudible ] concerning discussions with the news media retroactive. was that aimed at -- did white house have steve bannon's communications with breitbart news in mind? was that applied retroactively to address those communications and any response to director's claim that would you violate a rule? >> that's correct. there's two pieces that are important. one is, remember, this didn't have to do with the law or regulations. this had to do with the pre...

Ethics pledge waivers that were granted to people to come into work at the white house. these would be former lobbyists, people working on issues that they are working on now in the white house. that will go on whitehouse.gov later on this evening. he click on the briefing room, then, the disclosures tab. that will take you to the ethics pledge waivers section. it has been speculated that dozens of people received waivers to come and work at the white house. i am told that the white house counsel's office, the number is more like 12. all of those people, plus the actual waivers themselves, wil...

Why does he say it is ridiculous and them promise all of this action. >> first of all, if you look at the promises he made on immigration, border crossings down by 70%. you look at tpp, one of the first executive orders he signed, look at ethics, every employee of the west wing signed an ethics pledge. you're never going to lobby when you leave this place and never for a foreign country. look at neil gorsuch. first time a supreme court judge has been sworn in since 1881. the idea of major legislation not being passed in the first 100 days. barack obama had a vague stimulus package -- that was ...

The executive order itself has a section, section 5, which focuses on enforcement. it outlines each agency head is tasked with office of government ethics to establish procedure for determining potential violations of the ethics pledge. should a violation be determined, the executive order authorizes the department of justice to enforce the order through several mechanisms. disbarment proceedings would restrict an individual or his or her entities from doing business with the federal government, seing an injunction such as a restraining orr for lobbying for ten years, the five years in the eth...

The executive order has section 5 which focuses on enforcements. the order outlines that each agency head is tasked with working with government ethics to establish procedures for determining potential violations of the ethics pledge. should a violation be determined, the executive order authorizes the department of justice to enforce the order through several mechanic isisms seeming an injunction or civil penalties like a fine commensurate with the nature of the violation. the department expects the department of justice to vigorously enforce this order. several of you asked where the house i...