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Journal," the dallas morning stars, plenty of respectable traditional conservative news outlets there, he is dependent upon breitbart news which is a race-baiting far right extremist organization. and the question is, who boxed the president in to this situation. was it steve bannon? did steve bannon show favoritism toward breitbart when he was in the white house when he knew that he was going to go back to breitbart because they had that arrangement. if so, there would be a violation of the conflict of interest statute. >> call it our regular ethics watch with our guest richard painter. suffi...

Investigated. it is very curious that this president has been boxed into a corner when instead of appealing to traditional conservative media, "the wall street journal," the dallas morning stars, plenty of respectable traditional conservative news outlets there, he is dependent upon breitbart news which is a race-baiting far right extremist organization. and the question is, who boxed the president in to this situation. was it steve bannon? did steve bannon show favoritism toward breitbart when he was in the white house when he knew that he was going to go back to breitbart because they had th...

Legislative year. >> if that is his end game. >> the caveat is you've known each other several years, but when you talk to the speaker, does he feel targeted. if you talk to most folks, seems like he's got to grow 50% more courage. >> i haven't spoken to him in some time. but look, these guys, of course, are -- they understand that -- that donald trump and his supporters will throw them under the bus. they understand that dynamic perfectly. and i guess the question is what is donald trump's end game. look, you know, druft, is it to pass all the major legislation, does he care, which i think is...

I guess it's down today from something we had a few days ago. sometimes it's up, sometimes it's down. let's take a step back and take a bigger picture look. it's time to ask a different question all together about donald trump's approval rating and what it means. and the question basically is, does this approval rating mean what it looks like it means? we're used to past presidents 35% being a disaster and with past presidents it certainly was. but the situation is a little bit more complicated with donald trump because we can look at this number here, 35% job approval rating, a 36% personal f...

Administration. it's the reality for the president. i mean for the congress. i think the president doesn't really care about that part of it, and i think the congress does. that's going to be an issue. >> it may be harder though for republicans to answer that question than for trump himself because he's evidented so differently by voters. his tone is so glib for someone trying to ostensibly unify the country. >> i got the kkk in there. >> it's almost a joke. but people look at trump and say well, that's just trump. it's harder i think for some republicans to explain this because you know, for ...