government. president trump is doing it, has his family in the white house running our middle eat policy. we have our cabinet members with conflicts of interest. if they can do it, why can t ben carson do it? what s different about him. that s the mentality of this administration. it is nepotism. we do not have this in the bush administration or the obama administration. in the clinton administration, it was just first lady was very much involved in policy. that is different. this is unprecedented, bringing in the extended family to run our government. ben carson is the small guy here compared with what s going on in the white house. look, i athink allowing ben carson s son to be president of an event is not having him run the entire housing and urban
amid all the memo madness, we can t forget the everyday insanity of the trump administration, including the latest examples of possible ethics violation. the washington post reported that housing secretary, ben carson, may have violated ethics rules by having his son help organize a listening tour in baltimore last summer. department lawyers warned that ben carson jr. s role and his invitation to people with whom he had potential business dealings could violate federal ethics rules. joining me jen curran and richard painter. what is going on with dr. carson? his family is too involved with hud. he has been warned about ethics violations. is this the fish stinks from the head? they are getting the signal from donald trump that making money in office is something the
justice. and the actual amount they delivered. it shows nothing there that shows any corruption. it s a ridiculous thing. i would open hope the reaction would make them stop trying. or the fear that they are releasing what could be sensitive information, sources and methods to harm national security. at some point make this honor kick in and stop trying. we ll be back in the next hour. michael steel. i m good. excellent. coming up, don jr. s twitter problem. and carson s family affair. more after the break. why create something this extravagant? or make a back seat that feels nothing like a back seat? why give it every feature you could want, along with a few you didn t know you needed?
intermediary between two businessmen who wanted to talk to hud about a company that they were starting, they wanted to do business with hud, and i saw ben carson jr. going to introduce these gentlemen to hud officials. so it was all very unusual. talk about this no-bid contract his daughter-in-law got. so this is so yesterday the washington post reported in a very intriguing report that the deputy general counsel of hud had raised concerns about ben jr. s role in planning this hud trip, and among the people that ben carson jr. was hoping to have invited to these closed door meetings in baltimore was the new head of cms, the centers for medicare and medicaid, donald trump s nominee for that very, very powerful job. she was on the list, the invite list. she did not actually go to these meetings but ben jr. wanted her to come. we now have learned in this washington post report that
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