casino tycoons who ve known each other for 34 years. ultimately, with president trump hand picking wynn to be the finance chairman for the rnc and now on saturday, again, a white house official telling cnn that the president backs his resignation, in part to limit any kind of political damage that could hit the rnc or the white house. boris sanchez, cnn, at the white house. joining us from london is an associate professor of international relations, and a familiar face here at newsroom. leslie, thanks for joining us. thank you. let s begin with steve wynn. a titan in business from vegas, d.c., now out as leader, picked by donald trump, in the republican national committee. how does this look? well it clearly doesn t look good for the republican party. it doesn t look good for the president to have had somebody who became so close to him, wasn t always a supporter, but was on his inaugural committee, gave a lot of money to the republicans, to the campaign, to
historically had some rocky moments. they were competing hotel and casino tycoons who ve known each other for 34 years. ultimately, with president trump hand picking wynn to be the finance chairman for the rnc and now on saturday, again, a white house official telling cnn that the president backs his resignation, in part to limit any kind of political damage that could hit the rnc or the white house. boris sanchez, cnn, at the white house. joining me now to talk more on this, peter matthews. he is a professor of political science at cyprus college. thanks for joining us. good to be here. let s begin with yet another sexual harassment scandal this country is hair hearing about. it involves accusations against steve wynn. he has stepped down as finance manager of the republican national committee. a position hand picked by president trump for him. what are the ramifications of what could be another sex scandal, this the first ceo of a public company accused?