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 hes 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. Weve got more on that story ahead. Theres a lot going on. Weve got a big show tonight. I said at the very end of last nights show weve got a scoop to share with you tonight. This is that scoop. Inhouse on your staff weve been talking about this as and inside, kind of an insideout
story. Not your typical news story, not your particular scoop. But i think its important. One of the few times weve ever had a sco
people that somewhere behind that sizzle is steak. the reality is he s a serial bankruptcy artist. any time he s been asked to put his hapds on company and manage it well over a long period of time, he screws it up. time and again for decades. as you know and i know, running media companies is not easy. if he s going to use this money to start social media platform or some sort of a news site, it will require good management, hard work and imagination and hi lacks all three of those things. the stock went up on this sort of frenzy sort of buy the rumor, sell the deal thing. again, the proof in the pudding. it s been consistent with spacs all year. it s consistent with ipos. people love the buzz in the beginning and once the haze goes away and you say what have you done for me lately, can you really run a company? oh, you can t and then it tanks. i guess if you really want to
reason for that change. the president said he signed that law about who s running media companies because all of those dark journalists were biassed against him so they had to go. they just kept going. trying on a new rule to limit the number of journalists who would be allowed into the parliament. those who were allowed in to cover the parliament would have to stay in a special room and not go out into the halls where they might run into a special lawmaker and no one would be allowed to film or take pictures. this sparked a backlash of protests and a block aid of the parliamentary hall by opposition. the ruling party eventually, they scrapped if plan saying the plan was intended to help journalists organize their work better. that s nice. and you know it s one thing, you
and they didn t make up some high-minded reason for that change. the president said he signed that law about who s running media companies because all those darn journalists were biased against him so they had to go. thereafter they kept going. they tried out a new rule to limit the number of journalists allowed into the parliament. those who were allowed in to cover the parliament would have to stay in a special room, and no go out in the halls where they might run into an actual lawmaker they could talk to. oh, also, nobody would be allowed to film or take pictures anymore. it sparked such a backlash including days of street protests, and blockade of the parliamentary hall that the ruling party eventually scrapped that plan. poland s president said the plan had only been intended to, quote, help journalists organize their work better. that s nice. you know, it s one thing, you know, whether or not you care about poland. but today, after in recent weeks
ago. did all sorts of things the to consolidate in themselves all forms of political power. they removed the secret services, took over the supreme court. put their finance minister in charge of hiring and firing at media outlets in poland and they didn t make up some high-minded reason for that change. the president said he signed that law about who s running media companies because all of those dark journalists were biassed against him so they had to go. they just kept going. trying on a new rule to limit the number of journalists who would be allowed into the parliament. those who were allowed in to cover the parliament would have to stay in a special room and not go out into the lhalls wher they might run into a special lawmaker and no one would be allowed to film or take pictures. this sparked a backlash of protests and a block aid of the