administration might try to pass over the most senior person who would have been in line for the job. he said that person is highly qualified and would do an excellent job with the ethics office and said it should send red flags for everybody if they bypass that senior person. if they bypass that senior official who is next in line to be the acting director and instead, he warned us watch to see if they instead want to pick this one other particular guy that works at the office. the trump administration did that and walter warned should be expected to have a more pliable attitude on ethics towards this white house. that is the guy in charge of the ethics office now and he s revised the rules around legal defense funds for administration personnel. under the new interpretation of ethics rules, mike pence and any other white house staffer that