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This the clinton foundation investigation and the obama administration were suppressed by the justice department. >> part of the house oversight committee to examine accusations of pay to play of the clinton foundation. tell us about it. >> better late than never, and finally the clinton foundation which was a vehicle in many ways for foreign nationals and foreign governments influencing the secretary of state. and put forward a secretary of state there were concerns what was going on in bill clinton's bees and we have an ethics process. mrs. clinton won't be involved in the clinton foundation...

Himself. we have an ethics war with the ethics officials undertake analysis on whether the acting ag should recuse. he refuses to submit to that opinion. >> twa are you saying number one the normal process is to request it. that what happened with sessions. he got the advice to step aside and did. number two, you are saying if this person doesn't recuse, there is something important to back it up. donald trump told people, whitaker is loyal and would not have recuse himself from the investigation, according to multiple people in the washington post today. you are say figure that doesn't happen...

In effect you had mr. ross who moved stocks of navigator would go done. he knew that the "new york times" was planning the story. it was not known to the world. and he had information inside from his experience serving at that company about the inside issue that if exposed might cause the stocks to fall. so it needs to be independently scrutinized. it is fobl if it's a violation of the stocking a, insider trading laws. one other thing, we've seen a pattern in this trump administration. >> that's what i wanted to ask. if this is a part of a broader pattern. you say yes in. >> it is in self ways...

The inspector general's comments, the new memo that came out on wednesday, basically totally undercuts the defenses that pruitt and his defenders had been offering here. they say this is basically been run through the ethics process. the ethics guy now says it wasn't completely approved. it didn't address the actual ethics concerns about renting from the life of a lobbyist. also i would point out in that memo point out by the ethics official, there is one point at the end where the name of the lobbyist is actually scratched out and replaced with that of his wife. scott pruitt said in that fox ...

Here. we will see how it shakes out. it seems a cheap shot given the fact that he could have stayed on two more days and received his pension. >> and a race mccabe ultimately lost. the inspector general's report. it has not yet been made public. how much about whether this move is justified boils down to interpretation depending on what political side you happen to fall. >> well, a lot of it. mccabe's wife did run as a democrat. there was a donation through terry anything allive. so you can point to that. th there is an ethics process and discloche other that process. and also the talking to t...