RUEMMLER: “I had a team that did vetting and ethics. So our office was responsible for vetting every cabinet member. So -- you know, and we had, in our administration, we had very quite rigorous standards. And so it would be a big failure if someone turned out to have -- you know, not completed their -- not filed their tax returns appropriately or, you know, something like that. Or, you know, a big issue that would come up would be with household help, and people not paying taxes on either a nanny or, you know, a housekeeper or something like that, or landscaping people, that type of thing. (...) I'm really disheartened by the -- what I think is sort of the devaluing of the office, in some -- some ways almost debasing of the office of the president, which is -- which is something that, you know, I revered as White House counsel and really felt a personal responsibility to sort of protect the -- protect the -- just the sort of sacrosanctness of it, you know, not in a religious sense, but just in the sense that it's a -- it's such an important office and the dignity of it, the dignity and the decency, I would say.”

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Flashback - Jeffrey Epstein’s Good Friend Kathy Ruemmler Explains that She Ran Obama’s Vetting and Ethics Department‘I had a team that did vetting and ethics’News & PoliticsEXCERPT:RUEMMLER: “I had a team that did vetting and ethics. So our office was responsible for vetting every cabinet member. So -- you know, and we had, in our administration, we had very quite rigorous standards. And so it would be a big failure if someone turned out to have -- you know, not completed their -- not filed their tax returns appropriately or, you know, something like that. Or, you know, a big issue that would come up would be with household help, and people not paying taxes on either a nanny or, you know, a housekeeper or something like that, or landscaping people, that type of thing. (...) I'm really disheartened by the -- what I think is sort of the devaluing of the office, in some -- some ways almost debasing of the office of the president, which is -- which is something that, you know, I revered as White House counsel and really felt a personal responsibility to sort of protect the -- protect the -- just the sort of sacrosanctness of it, you know, not in a religious sense, but just in the sense that it's a -- it's such an important office and the dignity of it, the dignity and the decency, I would say.”Video filesFullCompactSort byDateSummaryRelevancePopularityPer page81216Audio filesFullCompactSort byDateSummaryRelevancePopularityPer page81216Recipient e-mailMessage (optional)Preview

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