answer however you want. is it at least worth looking at here? and the laws in congress have changed where you re really not supposed to make stock deals baseod information you have now. that s a relatively new law. beyond the law, if the goal is to drain the swamp in washington, is this something that flies in the face of that? i think these are questions that will certainly come up in the confirmation hearing and tom price will address them. facts are a stubborn thing. the facts in this case are that a broker, not tom price, was the one that purchased the stock. he didn t know about it until after this bipartisan legislation. that s the key. it was bipartisan legislation. he didn t know about the stock purchase until after the legislation was introduced. and he has furthermore said that if he is confirmed as hhs secretary, he will sell his stocks relating to this. so i think he is on the front end divulging what could raise some issues. he s swrd tanswered the questiot will come up
a schoolyard level he often does and you re not resolving conflicts of interest and your path is a neat and clean one, i think you give a green light to others in politics and congress to behave in a similar way. leadership is about example and in a variety of ways, donald trump does not set the best example. where is he right now on that? obviously, he s not bound by the rules that congress is bound by. that s right. but where is he? what is odd he keeps reminding us of that. you would expect a president so say although i m not bound and i don t have to kind of divest myself of all business interests, you would expect a president to say i m going to go beyond the law and make sure that none of you have anything to worry about. donald trump, oddly, as when he came to the new york times to visit and talk to us, keeps on digressing to remind you of his lack of a legal obligation. i find that very strange. he keeps promising to tell us what he is going to do in terms of blind tr
great to see both of you. steve, you sat down with the president for a lengthy interview there. how would you describe his state of mind? you have interviewed him before. he s a cool guy. he has been cool every time that i have talked with him, ten of them now during the time that he s been in the white house. and he keeps essentially the same demeanor. but his passion comes through from time to time and i think you hit on one of the moments there in that bit of video you just played because the president is concerned about the rule of law, concerned about the reputation of the united states, and you hear him not saying he thinks that president-elect trump is going to go beyond the law. he s not explicitly saying that. but he s calling out that responsibility of the new president that s one of many, many things on his mind at this moment of transition. so a lot of the people around him are actually now increasingly critical of donald trump. josh earnest, his press secretary, michel
think is just a tragedy. you mention that federal partnership. i want to read more from attorney general loretta lynch, she says anyone who s felt isolated and afraid, lost faith or lost hope as a result of a sex crime, we will not forget you, we will not abandon you. your peace of mind and security are top priorities for doj. she is a very measured prosecutor, as you know. this is as heart-felt as some have seen here. she s speaking to something that goes beyond the law. it goes to a feeling that many women have that prosecutors and the legal system doesn t work well for them when they are victims of sex crimes. i think the fact that we have a situation where thousands of rape kits are up tested for years if not decades, speaks to the question are we treating victims of crime who are women as seriously as victims as we should. so i agree with the attorney general s comments. when we make those phone calls
offers them the opportunity to come to a battlefield and play a role and to give them a mission. the other question that is raised is when you look at a time where people are saying congress isn t being serious is something even bigger on isis the president recently asked congress for war authority power to take on isis. now legally it doesn t change the fact that the fbi can go in today and pick these guys up on federal terrorism charges. if you can tell us beyond the law, beyond the paper trail of what congress says it wants to do about isis should it matter? should congress look at these kind of incidents that show a homegrown potential threat and say, gee, that means we ought to weigh in on the war with isis? no doubt about it. all of these things are going in the midst of this debate and back and forth of politicking. having three guys who are from brooklyn who are attempting to