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House press secretary, sean spicer talking about kellyanne conway, telling viewers to, quote, buy ivanka's stuff. members of congress aren't buying into it. in a bipartisan letter, jason chaffetz and elijah cummings urged them to review the statement for possible ethics violations. heres what she had to say about it on f. >> where is that letter? we are reviewing it internally. i'm happy i spent a lot of time with the president of the united states this afternoon and that he supports me 100%. >> okiedoke. norm. talk me through kellyanne conway's role. yes, she's there to serve the president. i...

When nordstrom went after ivanka and said this is an attack on the president's policies. i thought a horrible idea and confirms our worries about the conflict of interests with trump's business and spicer is out there being the brawling guy who can't let a perceived slight go without a response. this makes donald trump the easiest president in the world to distract from anything he is doing. what hillary tried to do during the campaign. throw him a bar and he goes back at it. i think the semantic fights drag them down. the adversarial media loves fighting over words. their favorite thing to do...

Violation. we saw chaffetz recommend that the committee take this issue up but they are not an enforcement agency. they can only advise federal employees, advise the white house on what they feel she did. at the end of the day it's up to the president to punish her and as long as he is going to stand by her, i don't think you're going to see her take the fall for the comments that she made yesterday. >> is there no reason to believe that donald trump, if it's only his decision, it is, that julie points out, that he would punish kellyanne conway because of ivanka is involved. >> it's obvious wh...

And for someone to take out their concern with his policies on a family member of his, is just not acceptable, and the president has every right as a father to stand up for them. >> not acceptable is the interesting language. not acceptable. he speaks for the united states government. if you say something or do something critical or negative about the president's family, it's not acceptable? >> you know, i think it's clear this is an ethics violation. there seems to be little question about that. but i have to say, the dresses seem lovely. i've seen them in the store. but he's the leader of th...

Friends" she called it a commercial for ivanka trump's line. that's an ethics violation. >> if it's not a violation, it's close. the white house has been coming out in defense of ivanka trump. kellyanne conway encouraged everybody to buy her clothing line and jewelry line. she did it from the confines of the brady briefing room. she was on government property, a government official. today the white house reported she crossed the line, it's unacceptable. i asked sean spicer if the white house say it as that way. here's the response. >> questions have been asked about kellyanne conway with fox n...