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Procedure. he is not billions of dollars in settlements from financial services companies for various wrongdoing. it has made him a hero of some watchdog groups and a major target republicans in the banking industry is a he has completely overstepped his mandate. english, the hand-picked successor will likely follow his lead. this is who the president has named the acting director. effective as of midnight friday night. mick mulvaney, you also keep his job as white house budget director. mulvaney was the one that called the bureau a joke. in a conference call, the white house says mick mulvane...

>> tom, when you see this it seems the spouses are a small part of the problem but yet they are drawing so much attention. >> yeah, because it's bad optics that's why. there's no question in many times in politics and business, spouses can travel along and add to the effectiveness of the main character in that relationship. if they start going along too often those business trips start looking suspiciously like vacations, especially for watchdog groups. they start paying attention. and with all this swirling around the trump administration that's exactly what's happening here. erin. >> tom tha...

Punches. you have to have a narrative and plan and priorities you move forward on. in this case, the administration has to have a credible way. >> capable this white house of recalibrating? >> i think so. and where donald trump dismiss calibrate is he somehow could not accept that he won the election fairly and squarely as we understand it through the electoral college. although 3 million less popular votes. but at the same time the russians almost certainly hacked and interfered in our elections. he should be embracing or challenging and cooperating with that. those are two separate issues. >...

Another perspective sometimes. there are other watchdog groups that are troubled by what some are calling a glowing description of mar-a-lago, calling the winter white house, for example, critics pray that that description is the latest example of the blurred lines between the president's personal, political, and financial interests. >> >> bret: which is my people all over washington, they say, washington, and shake their heads. chris wallace's guest hosting "the five" this evening at 9:00 p.m. eastern, and, of course, one of the regulars, can we look will fail. chris, how excited are you? >> ...

They're gathering intelligence and assessing just how effective this weapon, the mother of all bombs, is. tom? >> terry, thank you. back here at home, one more note from the white house. visitor logs will now be kept secret. the trump administration breaking from an obama-era practice of making the records available on a website. now the logs may not be available for years. the white house saying national security concerns drove the decision, which is already being challenged by watchdog groups. next now, a nationwide manhunt for a wisconsin fugitive has finally come to an end. a suspect a...