brody who reports on government ethics. ben, thank you for joining me. what does the government accountability office say? >> the accountability office says what the government did do during the transition, and it says the state department was able to help the president on only a couple of phone calls. if you cast your mind back to november, there were a ton of phone calls coming in, and we don't really know, you know, how many of those were secured, how many of those need to be secured. that was one thing. the other thing that the gao report was talking about was the fact that the president did not really consult with the office of government ethics about how to dispose of his businesses, and he was really breaking with the president of some of his forebearers in that. >> wasn't the point of the other guy, walter schaub leaving that job, about the fact that everybody's expectations were this government ethics office was not going to be particularly vigilant about this administration. i mean, the white house doesn't