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AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu In the deepening of the already cozy relationship between President Joe Biden and Big Labor, Fox News reports on waivers given to certain Biden administration appointees who had prior Union ties: The Biden administration has come under scrutiny from Republicans on Capitol Hill following its decision to circumvent federal ethics rules and staff former union officials in senior posts. Beginning as early as March, the White House waived certain rules for former labor union personnel slotted to fill Biden’s transition teams and government vacancies, who would hav...

Now because of trump's decision to pull out of the paris climate agreement. there was actually a move -- an attempt to try and take melania on a climate change computer lab tour with the other spouses of the world leaders that she ended up getting blocked in her residence because of protests. but yes trying to get climate change back on the agenda. that's how they have to do it now. before it was like everyone was on the same page np now it's like maybe we can get the first lady to go to the climate change things and manipulate things behind the scene that is way. >> peter let me ask you about...

That's how they have to do it now. before it was like everyone was on the same page np now it's like maybe we can get the first lady to go to the climate change things and manipulate things behind the scene that is way. >> peter let me ask you about another story is that has developed. and that is walter schwab, the outgoing ethics chief. he told npr because working with the white house was a disoimt process appointment his words are i can only describe my experience with the way they've run the ethics program in the white house right now as one of disappointment. this is -- you know he cited ...

Swamp? when i talk to the trump panels, they like the idea that wildly successful, wealthy people will give them some of their secret sauce. >> his problem of draining the swamp has nothing to do with the checking accounts of his cabinets. it has to do with ethics waivers -- >> and rolling back dodd-frank and the same restrictions that were supposed to protect us. that's the swamp. those are the rules. that's what you said you were going to do. you did the opposite. how can you not do the opposite when you have the people advising you benefiting from a change like that. >> exactly. a lot of th...

Have been making major headlines had we not been talking about all of that. this week the white house released details of 14 ethics waivers issued to at least 16 white house staff members. the waivers exempt them from ethics rules that ban them from communicating with former employers. they include waivers for reince priebus, chief strategist steve bannon, senior white house adviser kellyanne conway, and four former registered lobbyists. so much for draining the swamp. the waivers were finally made public after dispute between the white house and the office of government ethics. the oge wasn't...