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Recuse. and doj has an excellent ethics office and they did the right thing and took proactive measures to be sure he wouldn't be 1r068d. this is what we do across thebr. this is how we're the prevention mechanism. so when i resign and when i'm telling the world that we've got a problem with our ethics program, oje is the canary in the coal mine with this departure from ethical norms, and it starts with a little thing like the president not divesting his financial interests, which sets a tone from the top that goes cascading down through the executive branch. and you wind up in a place where y...

Recuse. and doj has an excellent ethics office and they did the right thing and took proactive measures to be sure he wouldn't be involved. this is what we do across the executive branch. this is how we're the prevention mechanism. when i resign and when i'm telling the world that we have a problem with our ethics program, oge is the canary in the coal mine. and it starts with the president not divesting his financial interest, which sets a tone that goes cascading down the executive branch and you wind up in a place where you have a president criticizing a law enforcement official for doing t...

Something everybody agreed on. a lot of tensions because the president pulled out of the paris agreement. there was an attempt to take melania on a climate change computer lab tour with the other spouses. she got blocked in her residence because of protests but trying to get climate change back on the agenda. that's how they had to do that. we're trying to get the first lady to go to this climate change center and manipulate things behind the scenes that way. >> peter, let me ask you about another story developing, that is walter schab, the outgoing ethics chief. he resigned saying working wit...

A ethics program. what does this mean what's the implication the one guy out there in the punning challenging the way that donald trump and his family and coast associates inspect is doing business is walking away from the job. >> the office of government ethics not exactly a powerhouse but it was founded after the watergate scandal to try to monitor and bring light on the various issues. the fact that this -- walter, the director of it who has been a thorn in the side of the white house is stepping down, removes one more voice in government who is pointing to issues with the president's conti...

President. since then i would stay ethics program has been a very serious disappointment in the white house. >> what do you mean by that? >> the ethics program, is a compliance based program in many ways. we have very basic bare bones criminal laws, civil laws, administrative regulations, that say here's the absolute minimum you're going to do. that's just the skeleton. and the meet of the program has been the ethical traditions and the norms that has evolved over 40 years. and we're able to say, in most cases, that we have the gold standard of ethics programs internationally. and that federal...