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equal access to what congress knows so they have no way to evaluate it. you have joe manchin with significant interest in coal energy,s and yet he's the primary holdout on some of the provisions of the laws d -- the bills pending before him that would clean up the environment. maybe he believes the things in what he is saying or maybe it's profitable in what he is doing. nobody put a gun to their head and said you have to be in congress. they made a choice. they asked for great power over our lives, and now they're not even implying with the disclosure requirements they promised us they would comply with. >> they put in place themselves. walter, thank you so much. . >> thanks. a louisiana judge under fire after a home video with racist language surfaces. she's blaming a drug for using
economy. they should be able to participate in that. >> joining us now to discuss is walter schaab, fellow at the project of government oversight, former director of the office of government ethics. you have a very strong reaction to what she said. tell us, walter. >> yeah, absolutely. i mean, she calls it a free market. but your average citizen participating in that free market doesn't have government experts providing them with routine briefings on nonpublic information that can affect the price of stocks. so i think it's an absolutely absurd comment on her part. she might as well have said let them eat cake. because the public doesn't have access to the same cake she does. >> is there any way, do you think, to separate the insider knowledge from the ability to in vest? >> well, look, often these members of congress will say i didn't tell my spouse. or i didn't tell my broker to buy those stocks. the problem is the public has no way to verify that.
not only does the white house have a huge vetting problem where they don't google people -- >> or they are overlooking it. >> that's a great point. >> you have walter schaab's tweet. they just named their ethics person yesterday or today. >> and all nominees have problems that could have been discovered with vetting, even a google search. but they also have a judgment problem. thank you both very much for talk thing about all of this. >> senate leaders, as we said, they have struck a bipartisan budget deal. two-year deal. but will it get done? the woman on your screen, nancy pelosi, leader of the democrats and the house says no. no votes from her caucus until they promise a debate and a vote on immigration.
make it look like it was the golf ball that knocked her over. the caption "donald trump's amazing golf swin swing #crookedhillary." reaction was swift, including this tweet from walter schaab "the president of the united states just retweeted a video vignette that imagines him assaulting his political rival. the man is unfit." joining me now cnn senior media reporter oliver darcy. great to have you here. what are the main criticisms we heard from trump supporters is that we the media take him literally and not seriously. they take him literally not seriously, they see this as fun. they don't really see it as, you know, an urging his supporters to act violently against hillary clinton. is he just trolling the media at this point? >> i think that that's certainly part of it and i think you have to look at it two ways here. one, trump knows that this week he's taken a lashing from his