and said that they were threatening the police. he divided us one from another, and it was not a dog whistle, it was a fog horn. and you started seeing in 2015, early 2016 during the republican convention last summer that these young men and they re almost they re 90% men, i think, or more, these young men were hearing the call. so you started seeing rallies like this and scenes like this. but there s never been anything quite this outrageous to this point. we should say it does appear to be at least skewing towards a more youthful crowd, certainly those that were in a militia group that were coming to this protest with guns and rifles. the question is whether or not some of them were even 21 years old, they looked that young. richard painter, i d like to bring you into this conversation, sir. former white house chief ethics lawyer for president george w. bush. politically speaking, we look at the controversies that the administration with which you worked had to face, but were
leaders? well, it s corruption. when people, in order to get their legislative agenda through or get what ever they want out of the executive branch agencies they feel they need to go book a room at trump hotel, get a ballroom there, pay tens of thousands of dollars, have a big party and then all trump administrator officials come over and trump is getting an amount on the assets. when i was a chief ethics lawyer for the bush administration if anyone in the bush family had thought about opening up a hotel over there near the white house where lobbyist were going to come in there i would have walked right off the job. i would have told the president that hotel is shut down or i m walking out. it is unacceptable for a family to try and make money off the presidency, and that s what s
news report. really appreciate it. thank you. we re joined now by josh barrow and richard painter, a professor of law at the university of minnesota, who was chief ethics lawyer for president george w. bush. mr. painter is the vice chair of the citizens for responsibility and ethics in washington. and, josh, so far we re not hearing a big rush of republicans coming forward, saying this is outrageous. he can t do this. well, you ve seen some. susan collins has said it would be unacceptable for him to fire the special prosecutorment one thing is republicans in the senate are very focused on the health care bill today. at this point the names that have been floated, who he might replace him with, rudy giuliani and ted cruz, neither of those makes a lot of sense. will they they both have said they don t want to do it? so what that says to me is that this is not an idea that has gotten really far off the launching pad yet if those are the sorts of names that they are talking abo
the washington post, see what washington s reaction is tomorrow, see what congressional republicans reaction is this week? yes, it s part of an ongoing process that s emanating from the white house. you have it in terms of the president s tweets. he s tweeting today about beleaguered attorney general jeff sessions. he made his comments last week to the new york times. now people in the president s inner circle are telling the washington post that even though they don t have an option yet of a replacement, there is active talk of replacing the attorney general because of the president s frustration. so we see this sentiment continuing to build in the trump circle. robert costa, thank you for joining us with this breaking news report. really appreciate it. thank you. we re joined now by josh barrow and richard painter, a professor of law at the university of minnesota, who was chief ethics lawyer for president george w. bush. mr. painter is the vice chair of
house to help things become clearer and more transparent and create more accountability for people. he thinks we re moving backward now. well, i share his concern. i worked close with walter when i was the chief ethics lawyer for the george w. bush white house, and the office of government ethics has always given very sound advice and we followed that advice and so did the obama administration. this is the first time since the founding of the office of government ethics that we have a white house that has been at war with the office of government ethics over multiple issues including the white house counsel s office writing a letter to the office of government ethics saying, no, no, the rules apply to the white house staff. utterly ridiculous. we never would have take than position in the bush administration. so on repeated occasions this white house has attacked oge,