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Acting Ethically in The Fog of War

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4.66K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2017

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Virginia Heffernan talks to Walter Shaub about the Office of Government Ethics, principled governance, and what it's like to run a federal agency. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Certainly all the signs are very bad for the Republicans going into 2018.

0:06.3

This is obviously a shot in the arm.

0:08.4

And for President Trump, it was a pretty big blow.

0:11.1

Donald Trump, you don't stand for our values!

0:14.6

This was a candidate about whom his own daughter Ivanka said there's a special place in

0:18.4

hell for those who prey on children.

0:24.9

Hello and welcome to Trumpcast.

0:26.4

I'm Virginia Heffernan.

0:28.0

So we didn't have a show yesterday because it was Doug Jones' day.

0:32.1

We had stayed up way too late the night before learning about the vagaries of counties in

0:36.6

Alabama, which ones go red, which ones go dark red, which ones fall off the spectrum of

0:42.6

infrared so much that they can only be seen under special lights.

0:46.8

And which ones go blue?

0:47.8

We're getting a new Democratic Senator for Hanukkah.

0:51.0

So hug, some mayoch, Trumpcast listeners.

0:54.0

The only thing curbing my enthusiasm today is, okay, I did something stupid.

0:59.1

I acted on a longstanding resentment of Breitbart, that psychogeocities cite by Steve Bannon,

1:04.9

that maybe doesn't exist anymore, on Alabama's election eve.

1:09.0

Basically, long ago after that election in November that Trump vomited one, Breitbart

1:14.8

posted Kate McKinnon's performance of Alaluia from SNL and said, we did it, fam, we broke

1:21.2

them.

1:22.2

And I said, oh, I did not forget that.

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