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Today's guest has a fascinating in-house role, and is a leading voice for the LGBTQ+ community in the legal industry. Wesley Bizzell serves as senior assistant general counsel and managing director of...
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...
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 employees are not just merely not criminals. that appointees are not just avoiding violating laws but they go further and come apply with those traditions. an example is that with presidential nominees, the primary criminal conflict o...
Finances. >> on the flip side, there are some that make the argument that, number one, there's never been a president-elect or a president like donald trump who has been in this position so this of course will be unprecedented steps and who also argue that at some point you have to trust the person who is in the white house. does that hold any water, either of those arguments to you? >> no, the whole basis of our ethics program is that we don't need to rely on a blind trust of our government officials. instead we require disclosure, we require that they not act in ways that violate conflict of...