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resigned tonight. the robust way he stood up to the trump administration and to trump himself on ethics issues and the president s unprecedented financial conflicts of interest. his name is walter shoeb. he said he was not forced out of the office of government ethics. he basically says he s leaving because the u.s. governmentestics rules are not strong enough to allow him to stand up to what this president and his family are doing so he is leaving his jb at the office of government ethics in order to try to strengthen the rules from the outside. very interesting resignation today. we ve got more on that story ahead. there s a lot going on. we ve got a big show tonight. i said at the very end of last night s show we ve got a scoop to share with you tonight. this is that scoop. in-house on your staff we ve been talking about this as and inside, kind of an inside-out story. not your typical news story, not your particular scoop. but i think it s important. one of the few times ....
you ll be all over it for us as always, thank you so much. monu raju in washington. thank you for being with us on this tuesday afternoon. getting word from the police chief there in houston, texas, the first police officer fatality in the storm, sergeant perez, 34 years with houston pd. i m brooke baldwin. the lead starts now. welcome to the lead. i m brianna keeler in for jake tapper. we re going to begin with breaking news in the national lead. president trump arriving in texas. he is about to get a tour of the operations center there after stopping in corpus christi today. today there are new warnings to residents. get out now as a levee is pushed to its limit in houston and harvey continues to relentlessly pour down on the gulf coast. just moments ago we learned that a houston police officer, sergeant steve perez, was killed in this storm drowning on his way to work on sunday. his police chief overcome with emotion as he was explaining the decision to not go in af ....
this was somebody there are people who were skeptical about donald trump from the very beginning. this was somebody playing ball with donald trump and was a supporter and maybe even going to be his vice presidential candidate. so the fact that he s saying these kinds of things shows that he gave him a fair hearing, was willing to give him a try, and it s become pretty clear that this is a highly problematic president. part of the thing that is worrying to me is we re starting to see everything through the prism of here s another twitter scandal, here s another bit of the crazy. how crazy. you re talking about somebody who has more access to information about threats to america than almost any human being on earth, senator corker, saying he s afraid of world war iii, to the paper of record for the country. that should be a full stop, all traffic comes to a halt moment. because this is a cry for help for the country. and yet but it doesn t come until after donald trump p ....
if the press were not fake and if it was honest, the press would have said what i said was very nice. wait a minute. i m not finished. i m not finished, fake news. the press honestly is out of control. the level of dishonesty is out of control. the public doesn t believe you people anymore. now, maybe i had something to do with that, i don t know. as you know i have a running war with the media. they are among the most dishonest human beings on earth. the media. in other words, the fake news. any media that dislikes what he s done. today, the president received a double rebuke from members of his own party. in a column for the washington post senator john mccain said president trump is sending a dangerous message to the world. he wrote the while administration officials often condemn violence against reporters abroad trump continues his attacks on the integrity of american journalists and news outlets providing cover for repressive regimes to follow suit. on the senate flo ....
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