trump's words, he promised to discuss the fact that i will be leaving my great business in total to focus on running the country in order to make america great again. capitals. while i'm not mandated to this under the law, i feel it is visually important as president in no whey to have a conflict of interest with my various businesses, hence legal documents are being crafted that take me completely out of business operations. the presidency is a far more important task. as you can see, it wasn't one tweet, one off-hand comment. it was detailed, a date, it was a big press conference. you saw all what he had to say. two trump transition sources say now it's not going to happen until january, obviously right before inauguration. phil mattingly is "outfront" tonight at trump tower. this was a highly anticipated press conference. as you heard, donald trump promising so much detail and promising a lot of deliverables. what more can you tell us about why now suddenly it's off? >> reporter: on one of the biggest post-election issues