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Should be ashamed of themselves. >> how do you react to that rhetoric. ill summarize what the president was saying. essentially folks like you who were in positions of forming trade policy in the past didnt have the countrys best interests in mind. >> well, obviously, i disagree, and i think both republican and democratic administrations for a long time have been working on these issues that made some progress on them. the real issue here is, the president is right that there is a problem with o...

Kind of -- what his wraeknesses are with respect to his financial dealings. it is predictable that given his financial endanglements, and given the nature of his job, he was going to meet with officials who then had some business relationship, right? so sometimes these things are totally innocent. maybe he met with this guy from citigroup and then the company got the lone as the post is reporting, and when had nothing to do with the other. but that is the problem when you dont divest, when you h...

Not -- im not one of those who says that nobody connected to a family should work for a president under any circumstances. i think there are circumstances. although in the bush administrations, eight years of george w., im not aware of a single family member that worked in any capacity. there may be something im not aware of. if they were, certainly low level. the problem with that is, even though theres no conflict of interest, we saw that with skrar ed kushner today. he gets a couple loans fro...

Applied to administrations of both parties historically. >> also jared kushner meeting privately with the chinese ambassador and jared kushner meeting with russian businessmen during the transition, all things which would not be done -- i mien you would normally have a note taker in the meeting with you just so that if the chinese ambassador lies to his government about what was said, somebody is there to -- >> thats where it becomes a national security problem as well because the overarching qu...

Come to know from president trump when he watches television or feels that he is slighted. now, the second question is who is going to be the communications director. this is a position that in past administrations has been a gigantic job. this is something that you strive to go for. perhaps when named within the administration would be mercedes slap, somebody who has been around for a while that could fill that role. they actually need some kind of communications strategy because they dont have...

Financial entanglements. it is the appearance of frankly corruption. and thats why we have previous administrations who have been very, very stringent about divesting themselves of these kinds of relationships, and making sure -- or at the very least making sure they dont take a meeting with someone who may have a financial relationship later on with one of their business interests. so entirely predictable. and another sort of nail in the coffin, hes had a very difficult month. to me it doesnt -...

They want us to take on faith that it wasnt discussed, that there was no wink about this, or that people didnt go out and think, okay, im going to do this in order to curry favor, thats a lot to swallow, thats why we have these rules. >> one argument also, you hear, ambassador, is that, look, if you want to have rich people or people with vast business dealings who have been very successful in the business world, this might happen inside the white house. this is very hard for people who are this...

Three, right there. >> right she comes out of the real estate business. >> right. >> she knows him before he was a candidate. >> and steve bannon and michael flynn came on. and and the communications online media person. and kellyanne conway came in late towards the end. she was there really from the beginning. almost like a -- >> sometimes what happens when administrations face crisis you see a hunkering down to the core associates, the old soul mates. whats happening here is the opposite. thos...

David, you know your way around the west wing, spent time there in the obama administration. is this the way things are supposed to work? >> ha-ha, im going to treat that as a rhetorical question, wolf. yes, i know my way around the west wing, but i dont think anybody who worked in previous administrations would be familiar with the west wing as it operates or does not operate today. i mean, you have constant turnover. weve seen more of it in the last 48 hours. you know, president warring with h...

Relationship with people who gave me wedding presents. you have to get approval to go to the white house correspondents dinner. there are all sorts of rules about not getting special loans. im not sure it matters if the conversation took place in the white house or out of the white house. this is more than an appearance of a conflict. if these are all factually true, this is him taking advantage of being in a position in the white house. what that means legally for him, ill let lawyers say that....