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As you see it on the landscape of trump activities today, how would you describe the corruption? >> clearly hes setting himself up to do a lot of self-dealing from the white house. thats what weve seen a lot of separaon from his business empire and his role now as president or president-elect has not happened. he tells us it will happen. its important for it to happen. but with his children involved in the business and the administration in one way or another, i think its going to be very, very ...

Significant is that donald trump hasnt really borne deep into many of the intricacies of white house policy but he seems very clear on the fact that the president is actually exempt from a 1978 ethics in government law. so while self-dealing is illegally, commonsensically, ethically, for members of the cabinet, that is not the case for the president of the united states. and he seems very aware of the fact that he could run his business out of the oval office. hes saying he wont. hes saying hell...

And once he breaks that emoluments clause, which is self-dealing and conflict of interest, hopefully the republicans in the house will have the guts to say these are impeachable offenses and he doesnt make it to that first kennedy center honors. >> we shall see. rob, youre great. we will keep you over for the next part of the show. stand by. coming up at noon, a tale of two statements from donald trump in the death of fidel castro. why was there such a contrast between the first tweet and his ...

Wealth frankly. but there is a no -- i assumed that you would have to set up some type of trust or whatever and you know, and i was actual lay little bit surprised to see it. anything. something. i would like to try and formalize something. because i dont care about my business. so i dont have to do anything but i want it do something, if i can. unprecedented opportunity as trump notes for say corruption or self-dealing that comes with having a president with such a large business enterprise is ...

And you know, and i was actual lay little bit surprised to see it. in theory, i dont have to do anything. but i would like to do something. i would like to try and formalize something. because i dont care about my business. so i dont have to do anything but i want it do something, if i can. >> the totally historically unprecedented opportunity as trump notes for say corruption or self-dealing that comes with having a president with such a large business enterprise is now here. his latest piece i...

Conflicts he wants. this system was not designed for somebody who doesnt mind violating the ethical expectations around the presidency. this system is not designed for somebody who doesnt care if people know that he is self-dealing. i mean, if youre already using a dot gov website to advertise your properties. if youre using another government website to advertise your wifes jewelry line on qvc, if youre wieng and dining foreign diplomats and telling them it might behoove them to spend their mon...

There are a wide range of conflict of interest and anti-corruption laws that apply to the president. >> so young, why is mr. trump saying this that, that, that, that the conflict of interests dont apply to the president? >> well, i think that the distinction the professor is making is that you can have a so-called conflict of interest, but it doesnt necessarily make it illegal. there is nothing that legally restricts the president from self-dealing, as long as its not a crime of some sort like b...

Sakes. leftists, nazis being national -- >> uh-huh. david whats the answer to that? should we in the media pay attention to them or no? >> aside from the dopey claims of the american left institute i basically agree with what jeffrey lord just said. this is a distraction. the news from that "new york times" interview was donald trumps confirmation that he improperly used the office of presidency to try to enrich himself at his golf course in scotland. every time you are not talking about donald ...

Basically not for charitable purposes, basically for self-dealing. and then you have his children, who are going to be managing his business enterprises, from which he really cant divorce himself from, meeting with world leaders. how does that even work? how does that even not create some massive distraction in his administration? >> i think it creates a massive political problem, not just for donald trump but also for republicans. republicans have honed in on the issue of conflict of interest w...

>> on his chief strategist, steve bannon, whos been accused of showcasing racist views on his breitbart news site, trump said its very hard on bannon. "i think hes having a hard time with it because its not him." and trump even moderated his stance on global warming, which he once called a hoax, telling the "times," "i think there is some connectivity between humans and climate change." with his inauguration getting closer, the president-elect has no shortage of flames to put out. from a new rev...