step leaves so much else undone in this white house. there is an ethics crisis in the white house. and it starts at the top with the president. who claims that the law does not apply to him, even the constitution, which prohibits many of the foreign government benefits he is getting, for example. until the president gets it right, the white house is not going to get it right. we do have, despite this positive step, a white house in ethics crisis. no wonder they re under investigation for russia affair. ambassador, you are a former white house czar. in terms of the nepotism law, does it apply? the question of whether ivanka was an employee was a clear one. she was. i m glad they conceded it. my view it s a bipartisan view. the bush ethics czar agrees with me. nepotism statute does apply.
in the congress have to check president trump. that s our job. i m challenge this because i don t think it was somebody trying make the buck. no. i didn t like the fact jared kushner is nepotism law, le he is a son-in-law. he got in there. tell me about your view of trump. what do you think the general approach of democrats should be? i have said it over and over again i want our committee to have integrity. i want us to apply the roules t donald trump just as we would have to anybody else. when you begin to turn a blind
well, it s a big family. and it spans a lot of years. distributed. reporter: children from three different marriages, ten-year-old, also sons who are, you know, in their early 40s. investing his family with authority. i mean, who s going to argue with him in the government? who s going to take that position? and who s going to challenge the potential violation of the nepotism law? it s pretty clear. a president cannot hire a regulartive, including a son-in-law. when your father-in-law says about you on the eve of the inauguration if you can t get to mideast peace, no one can. well one of the moves they re making is not a way toward middle east peace which is moving our embassy to jerusalem. id like to see the america first policy followed there. which is is that in our interest? i don t think so.
new york observer. he s giving up that role as well. he s not going to take a salary down in d.c. they re sacrificing a lot. sean: and donald trump is not taking a salary. in 1967, a law was applied, or a law passed. it was antinepotism law. it is after jfk appointed his brother to the attorney general. sean: he was 35 and many people thought he was unqualified. they were upset, they didn t want that going forward but in this case, the attorneys of donald trump, jared kushner, such as that does not appliance case. he s not being hired. he s not taking a salary. they are saying, the law says, it forbids hiring family members in agencies. his attorney is saying the white house is not an agency. he s not going to become attorney general. sean: that probably would ve triggered the nepotism law in that case. if you think about it, i think knowing the media as we do, and what we have seen this week,
he s giving up that role as he is not going to take a salary down in d.c. they re sacrificing a lot. sean: and donald trump is not taking a salary. in 1967, a law was applied, or a law passed. it was antinepotism law. it is after jfk appointed his brother to the attorney general. sean: he was 35 and many people thought he was unqualified. they were upset, they didn t want that going forward but in this case, the attorneys of donald trump, jared kushner, such as that does not applies in this case. he s not being hired. he s not taking a salary. they are saying, the law says, it forbids hiring family members in agencies. his attorney is saying the white house is not an agency. he s not going to become attorney general. sean: that probablyot would ve triggered the nepotism law in that case. if you think about it, i think knowing the media as we do, and what we have seen this week, particularly yesterday, any slight appearance of impropriety would be blown out of