did not resign as interior secretary he would be fired. ryan zinke upon being told that then told white house staffers that okay, he would resign but he wasn t going to resign until after he was able to throw himself a christmas party at the department of the interior, which he did.nt part of the reason we know he did because he posed for photos in front of a large stuffed bear wearing a santa cap. he had to stay until he could d that. literally the following day, the day after he had his interior department christmas party with the stuffed bear, the party he invited lobbyists to so they fe could take pictures with him with the dead bear with the ke santa hat on, the day after that he finally consented to resign.n once he got that important task done with. one of the things that ryan .zinke got in trouble for as interior secretary is getting ot rid of the independent inspectos
prosecutors begun presenting evidence to a grand jury in washington d.c. with an eye toward indicting zinke for lying to investigators. as of today, the post reports that zinke hill self-has not been called to appear before this grand jury but they have two sources confirming that in fact this grand jury has been convened. and, down next although a lot of trump cabinet officials or nominees or other senior trump officials have been driven out of washington trailed by very serious scandals, depending how this goes, ryan zinke may be the first official to face a federal criminal indictment, which is a very serious thing and if that is where this is going, somebody please save a seat in the courtroom for the stuffed bear. we will be watching that closely. i should tell you as of yet, there has been no comment from the white house on this reporting at all but tonight, i can tell you, one of our
fact this grand jury has been convened. and, you know, although a lot of trump cabinet officials or trump cabinet nominees or other senior trump officials have been driven out of washington trailed by very serious scandals, depending on how this goes with the grand jury, ryan zinke may be the first trump cabinet official to face a federal criminal indictment, which is a very serious thing. if that is where this is going somebody please save a seat in the courtroom for the stuffed bear. we will be watching that closely. i should tell you, as of yet, there has been no comment from the white house on this reporting at all, but tonight i can tell you one of our producers from this show was able to reach mr. zinke by phone to ask him personally for comment. he did give us a comment on this story tonight. his comment was, quote, have a great day. bye-bye. better than no comment. here is something else we are watching tonight.
although ryan zinke has characterized his december resignation as voluntarily, he had reportedly been told if he did not resign as interior secretary he would be fired. ryan zinke upon being told that then told white house staffers that okay, he would resign but he wasn t going to resign until after he was able to throw himself a christmas party at the department of the interior, which he did. part of the reason we know he did because he posed for photos in front of a large stuffed bear wearing a santa cap. he had to stay until he could do that. literally the following day, the day after he had his interior department christmas party with the stuffed bear, the party he invited lobbyists to so they could take pictures with him with the dead bear with the santa hat on, the day after that he finally consented to resign. once he got that important task done with. one of the things that ryan
he wasn t going to resign until after he was able to throw himself a christmas party at the department of the interior, which he did. part of the reason we know he did is because at that christmas party he posed for photos in front of a large stuffed bear wearing a santa cap. he had to stay until he could do that. literally, the following day, the day after he had his interior department christmas party with the stuffed bear, the party that he invited all the lobbyists to so they could take pictures of him with the dead bear with the santa hat on, the day after that, that is when he finally consented to resign, once he got that important task done with. one of the things that ryan zinke got in trouble for as interior secretary was trying to get rid of the interior department s independent inspector general who had brought several of these inquiries into ryan zinke on ethics issues. he was not able to get rid of the interior department inspector general despite his best efforts. and it