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From monica crowley after her plaigerism scandal and drove up these stock price for that particular firm. congressman tom price still doesn't have a hearing schedule for his nomination to be the new health secretary as more and more stuff comes out about him and his ethics problems, tom price may never get a confirmation hearing as health secretary. he may have his nomination yanked as well. there are problems that come up. there are -- there's sort of a normal level of problems that you expect with any incoming administration, with any presidential transition, even with any presidential inaug...

Problem for the new administration their only response has been to threaten to subpoena and implicitly threaten the funding of the government of ethics guy. it's not going to work. just ask south carolina. think of the south carolina government officials trying to make the decision whether or not donald trump would have to pay for this thing. it is not going to work. not going to work to attack an ethics office, instead of grappling with the ethics problems that are why ethics offices like these exist. they tried to get away with it. the night before the new congress was formed. they tried to ...

The funding of the government of ethics guy. it's not going to work. just ask south carolina. think of the south carolina government officials trying to make the decision whether or not donald trump would have to pay for this thing. it is not going to work. not going to work to attack an ethics office, instead of grappling with the ethics problems that are why ethics offices like these exist. they tried to get away with it. the night before the new congress was formed. they tried to get rid of the office of congressional ethics. they had to reverse that and pretend they never tried it. they ar...

>> president-elect trump is not doing what he needs to do in order to ensure that he can act as president without conflicts of interest and without violating the constitution's emoluments clause. so, this is -- the press conference was really an exercise, a showmanship exercise of going through the motions of doing something about the ethics problems he faces without doing what he actually needs to do. >> emoluments, by the way, merriam webster just tweeted it's their number one lookup. people looking up that word, trying to figure it out. they also talked about trump's team not engaging in an...

Certainly wouldn't make if it was a democrat who was setting up. >> john dean, one of the characteristics of the watergate era was that you had republicans, even barry goldwater, who were willing to turn on the president of the united states, a president of their own party, when they saw the illegality, that criminality was afoot. why don't more republicans stand up? they surely must see the unqualification, they must see the ethics problems. it's impossible that they don't know this is going on. why don't more of them stand up to him? >> i'm not sure that senator goldwater could even qualify ...