department officials to loosen restrictions. records reviewed by cnn show bernhardt involved in three meetings with interior officials on the issue, ipaa and other groups thanked bernhardt for his involvement and by december of 2018, the trump administration released a plan to amend sage grous protections and open vast swaths of western land for oil drilling. the industry requests and actions taken go on and on, fracking, offshore drilling, easing of safety requirements, former clients asking and receiving favorable decisions from the government agency run by the former oil lobbyist. we re talking about the literal fox guarding the hen house. this administration doesn t seem to mind the notion that a lobbyist is not going to regulate the very industry that they used to work for. reporter: bernhardt spokesman said the acting secretary is fully in compliance with his recusal agreements and critics
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to be start being for another few weeks. is it a risk to the white house in terms of crossing ts and dotting is which we know they have made mistakes in not doing before, you have someone who has not yet completed the sale of his company to a company connected to being sold to a chinese conglomerate, by a government agency run by the treasury department, has spent the last five days as the public face of of the white house. is that a risk? there s did he haefinitely a. this is sort of par for the course for a trump white house and trump administration that is essentially considered ethics regulations to be optional. you ve got an hhs secretary that spent much time in congress making deals to benefit introducing legislation that would benefit a pharmaceutical company while he s buying stock in the pharmaceutical company. that didn t give president trump any pause in hiring him for that important job. it s not surprising that the white house communications director has the same