opening his mouth about boeing or any competitor of boeing. there s just way too much money at stake. once again, over a trillion dollar. do you have confidence in the ininspector general s office and the department of defense? i do. inspectors general offices are usually very well run and independent. now, this administration has done everything it can to interfere with independent investigations, from threatening to fire bob mueller to other interference. so i m sure there will be plenty of efforts to interfere. but at this point i would trust the inspector general to do the inspector general s job, which is to hunt down waste, fraud, and abuse. and i can t think a part of this government that is more important to do that than the department of defense. i assume you see this as sort of, again, if true, part of a larger pattern with this administration. well, absolutely. a lot of presidents would not have put a former boeing
boeing. yeah, this is an ethics investigation. so shanahan was a longtime employee of boeing. some 30 years. he was an executive there. and they have received complaints, the inspector general, that he s been favoring boeing for products. he s been disparaging competitors. so, complaints have been filed. the inspector general says they re reviewing those complaints because they want to make sure that shanahan is not doing anything unethical and following procedures in place to protect from this stuff happening. certainly, there are conflicts because he was an executive at boeing. and they want to make sure he s not favoring boeing over other products that the pentagon was looking to purchase. a lot to cover. more on this breaking news when we come back. we ll talk to ethics lawyer, richard painter. subscribe to movies.
run by boeing executives, former boeing executives sitting on top of the defense department, shilling for their own company and trashing on the competitors. it s flat out wrong. that s one of the things, of course, it s the definition again, if true, it is the definition of the swamp, kind of a revolving door from you re in a business, and then you go to somewhere in government that relates to that business, and then you leave and alternately go back to the business and are rewarded for what you did when you were in government. if it s true and i say it s a big if i mean it is another example of a cabinet secretary, in this case acting secretary, potentially being accused of using influence either to pad their own pockets or do favors for cronies. well, it certainly is. i have to say, though, i don t think a former boeing executive, someone who has worked at boeing for 30 years, should be put in charge of the defense department at all. if he is, he shouldn t be
so shanahan was a longtime employee of boeing. some 30 years. he was an executive there. and they have received complaints, the inspector general, that he s been favoring boeing for products. he s been disparaging competitors. and so complaints have the specinspector general is reviewing those complaints to make shanahan isn t doing anything unethical, whether he s following procedures in place to protect from this stuff happening. certainly there are conflicts because he was an executive at boeing, and they want to make sure he s not favoring boeing over other products that the pentagon was looking to purchase. shimon prokupecz, appreciate it. more on this breaking news when we come back. we ll talk with former bush white house ethics lawyer richard painter. we know there s some things you just can t put a bow on. we know the best gift of all is still out there.
really have a get-to-know you session, whether it s on national/international tv, or, you know, knocking on doors. we ll see what happens after it because things have changed since in and after several of these town halls that we ve had. if i remember correctly, weren t governor hickenlooper and governor kasich talking about running together at one point? you know, they were talking a little bit about it. i think a lot of people talking about it for them. okay. they did a lot of they re friends. they did a lot of joint interviews. they are like-minded in a lot of ways. just in not necessarily ideologically, but just in terms of wanting to get things done across the aisle. so they were governors together. they served at the same time and they became friendly in doing those. lot of people were talking about it. he s running in the democratic primary, so doesn t look like that s going to happen any time soon. all right. i ll be watching 15 minutes from now. thanks, anderso