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"the apprentice" and his remaining executive producer credit there. i apologize. there seems to be a train going by the army any navy stadium, and i apologize if youre having trouble hearing me. rex tillerson is expected to be the pick for the secretary of state. its possible thats part of it. >> interesting conversation for saturday afternoon. thank you for checking in with me. >> reporter: thanks. more now on that russian hacking report. joining me now, greg miller, national security corresp...

Companies. >> im looking for the apprentice. >> reporter: the business-oriented show was a chance for trump to try his hand at television, but more importantly, to tout his skills as a businessman and rock-solid negotiator. >> about 13 years ago, i was seriously in trouble. i was billions of dollars in debt, but i fought back and i won, bigly. i used my brain, i used my negotiating skills, and i worked it all out. >> reporter: on the campaign trail, he often talked about the show. i do a televis...

>> "the apprentice" basically. >> thanks so much for joining me. donald trumps pick to lead the epa, why trump chose him and what this could mean for a future of the agency. ill ask a member of the house natural resources committee about this next.

People that want an episode to revolve around their products and the apprentice can be about their product. what if a company says lets give the apprentice $5 $5 milli and trump gets part of that. >> and what if trump gets on twitter and attacks them for something else and tries to bring down their stock price in retaliation. >> and we also have this unprecedented and the word normalization has been thrown around a lot. it is not possible to normalize the idea of the name of the president of the...

Subject. i think it probably weaponizes it a little bit. >> could you hear my conversation with casey. i was asking her about it this morning. i host the "today" show on the mornings and weekends and he was tweeting about "the apprentice." a lot of people feel theres a strategy and the media were going to make a left turn and talk about something else. do you think that is behind this decision. were still talking, if anything, even more about the issues with russian intelligence? >> i agree with...

As of january 20, the president of the united states will have shows airing on sister networks. why the apprentice airs on nbc, its owned by mgm entertainment. nbc actually cut business ties with trump in june of 2015 and has declined to comment on this story. trumps decision to stay on with the show has raised plenty of eyebrows, as if those eyebrows could go up any higher. trump tweeted this morning i have nothing to do with the apprentice, except that i -- lets bring in our panel. back with m...

We have no idea what the conflicts are. we know there are conflicts -- >> or at least potential ones. >> there is the potential for conflict of interest once he takes office. we dont have any idea of what the scope of his business dealings are because he has not released his tax returns and that is a problem. i think we have a general sense that there could be issues going forward. a more specific sense of what those problems would be. >> if this were anyone but donald trump, could this work? al...

Of "the celebrity apprentice" on nbc, even though hes president of the united states. what does that say to you? >> look, yesterday we were talking about the extraordinary spectacle of the president-elect tweeting criticism of an individual american citizen who criticized him. today we are talking about the extraordinary circumstance of a president-elect maintaining an economic interest in a television program that is produced by one entertainment conglomerate and aired by another. that tells yo...

Souares month afteren mon month trump properties. are the sons going to manage the portfolio. are they going to expand the business? if so are they going to expand in foreign countries, what does that look like? >> the only way to avoid a conflict of interest is to sell the whole thing. thats not going to happen. so the panel is back with me. basil, let me start with the breaking news here. donald trump is going to be president of the united states of america and executive producer of "the appre...

Before we pass judgment on him because i think he realizes something here. if it is too big an issue and every day the white house is having to answer questions about some scenarios, it will hurt his presidency and that is something i think hes very cognizant of and that is why we continue to want to know exactly how this is going to look until he comes out and talks about the press conference. but i think he realizes he doesnt want this lingering for four years where every weekend hes going to ...