attorney general and "new york times" reports that that same lobbying firm got a pipeline expansion project approved as pruitt stayed in the condo just 50 bucks a night. under that cloud of controversy, trump called pruitt last night to tell him, quote, we've got your back. don fox is with me, former director of the u.s. office of ethics. nice to see you, sir. just on that reporting from us in "the new york times," does that raise, you know, ethical flags, violations to you, sir? >> brooke, it raises all kinds of ethical flags. this is not scott pruitt going into the local holiday inn express and asking for the government discount which, in fact, he could accept because it's a discount available to all federal employees. this is a special deal for scott pruitt from someone who actually has business before his agency and by any number of standards, it violates the standards of account that are applicable to all federal employees, including