defense. >> the opportunity to stay at trump national in doonbeg to accommodate the unique footprint that comes with our security detail and other personnel made it logical. >> that unique footprint, as we're reporting to you tonight, includes 180 miles of footprint, and that's why this is obviously illogical, even kind of embarrassingly so. pence doesn't have any better arguments, and he's not alone in what he's up to. have you heard about this yet? attorney general barr now plowing $30,000 into a lavish holiday party at donald trump's d.c. hotel? and the career official who actually ran the ethics department during the trump administration earlier last year says all of this is sending signals that barr's loyalty is to trump and not to the country. we turn now to an ethics guru you may recognize, the one and only richard painter, former chief white house ethics attorney under the republican