government reporter pla ris sass lagos, political writer jill garofli and political consultant sean walsh. marisa, i know you were at the state capitol. b thereen a scramble this week to decide the fate of biundreds of ls. which ones made it through? >> the bail reform was the big news of the week. this languished for the last year after a year of get it through the legislature. both the governor and chiefth justice o courts asked for more time saying they wanted to compromise. what came out is making everyonh a littleppier who wanted to see something happen except for the bailgents w would lose their jobs if this passed. and some of the -- i would say libl liberties group like the aclu wanted to see more indendence in these decisions about release. under the bill now, judges have a lot of power to decide if somebody was rated low or medium or high risk under the risk assessments counties would adopt. whether to release them. so if you were arrested under this bill h and a misdemeanor charge, you would basically get out automatically in 12ours which isn't that different than now. if you h

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former white house aides including ousted deputy chief of staff katie walsh, personal bodyguard keith shiller and former smokesman sean spicer on the payroll of the 2020 re-election campaign to a super pac. people may not realize, if you and i leave a job, we typically leave the organization. in the trump orbit it's a little more complicated. >> it certainly is. that's why we saw in omarosa's case the offer of her so sign one of these agreements seemed very clear that they were trying to buy her silence. some of this is a little more nebulous but you're right, there's super pacs, the campaign, the trump business, friends of the president where all of these former staffers can go to work. again, it doesn't necessarily mean that there's something improper, but in general the closer you stay to an orbit and the more likely you are to be getting paid by an entity affiliated with the president or his company or his campaign, the less likely you are to go out and trash him which is exactly what he wants to avoid. >> ashley, good to talk to you. thank you for joining us. "washington post" white house reporter ashley parker.