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Program, you can't have an ethics program be truly effective if whistleblowers are afraid to come forward with wrong doing. >> thank you both very much for joining me tonight. really appreciate that. when we come back, we have breaking news about the 9 1/2 hour deposition that took place tonight, the chairman of the committees involved have released a statement and information about that deposition. and information about that deposition. performance comes in lots of flavors. there's the amped-up, over-tuned, feeding-frenzy-of sheet-metal-kind. and then there's performance that just leaves yo...

Violating them or a prohibition. and we need these laws. we need some of these things to actually become statutory. >> we don't have the time for this tonight, walter, but i'm sure your head is just filled with things, some of which are statutory but they don't have penalties enforcement like kellyanne conway constantly violating the law by basically campaigning. turns out the penalty for that is administered for your boss, so maybe we need a codified penalty for that. >> we are going to need a lot stronger laws that actually come with some teeth. i think one of the most important things the p...

I hear it's a good read. thank you gentlemen for joining us. steven, the deputy white house counsel responsible for policing ethics leaving by the end of the summer, you worked in the white house ethic office. what's your reaction to the news? >> i didn't actually work in the white house. we worked with the white house. the government ethics is separate and really, you know, the guy is a very nice guy. somebody you'd want as your neighbor but like all of them, this is not somebody that should be doing government ethics. this white house as a whole is openly hostile to the ethics program and th...

Isan, author of the book "the last palace." i hear it's a good read. thank you gentlemen for joining us. steven, the deputy white house counsel responsible for policing ethics leaving by the end of the summer, you worked in the white house ethic office. what's your reaction to the news? >> i didn't actually work in the white house. we worked with the white house. the government ethics is separate and really, you know, the guy is a very nice guy. somebody you'd want as your neighbor but like all of them, this is not somebody that should be doing government ethics. this white house as a whole is...

But these guys follow the tone from the top. the president spent tens of millions of dollars jetting off to his vacations at his own properties, every one of which is an advertisement for the properties and the moneyization of the presidency. i think what's going on from the top is you have people who doesn't have the sense abilities of public servants that they're supposed to be kevl federal resources, which of course is one of the primary principles of the government ethics program. you have secretary carson even admitting his ethics official pointed out the dining room table purchase might ...