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Ethics expert on taxpayers paying for Trump's new ads

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Christopher Swartz, former acting chief of ethics law at the U.S. Office of Government Ethics, joins "The Daily Report" to discuss the controversy over a series of new White House television ads paid for by taxpayers.

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