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CNNW Erin Burnett OutFront November 22, 2016 00:00:00

Service. School and homes have been targeted. Children have been morning the casualties, wolf. The Syrian Regime and russia have not stopped this. A warning from the united nations, there will be mass starvation in this city if food, Water Supplies and water are not allowed in very soon. Will ripley reporting for us. Thanks very much. Thats it for me. Erin Burnett Outfront starts right now. Outfront, the Breaking News, President Elect trump at this hour laying out his promises for day one. You will hear him. Plus, trumps controversial Chief Strategist steve bannon speaking out and saying, im not a racist. Trump meeting with americas first selfmade black billionaire. Hes a democrat. How did that conversation go . Hes my guest tonight. Lets go outfront. Good evening, im erin burnett. Ooutfront tonight, Breaking News, trump releasing a new video, first policy statement since his trip to the white house after the election. Trump breaking his silence breaking straight to camera in a somber tone laying out his priorities for day one. My agenda will be based on a simple corps prine principle, p america first, producing steel, building car, curing disease, i want the next generation of production and innovation to happen right here on our great homeland, america. Trump promised Action On Trade and immigration. His video to the American People bypassing the press as he kept up a furious round of interviews for cabinet contenders. The parade of visitors resembling the opening episodes of a new season of The Apprentice including introductions of the candidates with decisions on the winners imminent. To date, trumps nominations have been white males over a certain age. Trump met with three women today including iraq war vet and democratic congresswoman tulsi gabbert. In his video, trump defended his transition. Our Transition Team is working smoothly, efficiently andfectively. Great men and women, patriot, indeed, are being brought in and many will soon be a part of our government helping us to make America Great again. Tonight, were Hearing Trump is is close to a major announcement of defense secretary, his choice believed to be the retired Marine Corps General james mattis. Jim acosta begins our coverage tonight outfront at trump tower. Very unorthodox, not in an interview, not anything coming out on social media to the people. Reporter vintage donald trump, thats one of the takeaways, erin. One of the things we should point out in the video donald trump expects in his first 100 days as an Executive Action is officially pull out of the this becomes sort of king trump, that he appoints people. I think if he appoints romney, youll really see this. He lets them do their thing. Really . He hangs out at maralago, tweets about hamilton when he likes and appoints people who are qualified and lets them run the show. If you look at his history, hes not a very handson manager. In general, hes been happier rein licensing his name than being involved. I dont see this as if youre romney or mattis, youre going to have to kiss the ring then youll get to run your department, i think. Which would be obviously different than many people expect how this would go, carl. I mean, this, today, at least three women including democratic congresswoman Tullesy Gabbert met with donald trump today and said when she came out, a lot of people said, you know what, you should have refused this meeting, should not be meeting with donald trump. She said, no, i owe it to the American People to come together. Is she right about that . I think theres a danger in normalizing what donald trump is doing. I dont necessarily agree with the idea that his nomination suggests people who are qualified. I think the idea hes picking people who are close to him, loyal to him, are people who represent viewpoints that are anathema to what america is all about should raise some questions for us. The other thing is when we talk about this Secretary Of State appointment, mitt romney and donald trump working together does not sound like a formula for stability for america. It sounds like a recipe for disaster. Mitt romney would have to go and defend whatever donald trump says for four years. Can Donald Trump Trust mitt romney . All right, so lets say that alex is right and mitt romney get to do his own thing but it has to be dronald trumps polic. Can mitt romney be trusted to go ahead with Donald Trumps policy when he ardently disagrees . I think thats part of the conversation theyre having in there. Throughout this campaign, loyalty to trump breeds trust. If your qualifications are your superior to your loyalty during the campaign, guess what, you still may get the job. Over someone whos been loyal. Potentially if your qualifications outweigh that. Mitt romney made the olympics profitable. No one else has done that. This is guy who actually has i had big disagreements when he came out against trump in the campaign. Hes my choice or the job a Guy Donald Trump called a stone cold loser. Who is the opposite position on him on russia, i mean i dont think they have no, what im saying, thats not usually what you seek for your Secretary Of State. Its usually someone a little more in line with where you are. I would say that maybe youre right, maybe they will he will let them run it. I think he will make if He Doesnt Mike what youre doing, he will make that known. Weve already seen that with donald trump. Could be publicly humilia humiliating. He would not be shy. Yes. All right. All staying with me. Next, trump businesses spread over at least 25 countries around the world. So how can he not benefit financially from his new job . Plus, trumps Chief Strategist, steve bannon, speaking out tonight saying he is not a racist. Ill ask my next guest, b. E. T. Founder, bob johnson, whether he believes him. And Breaking News, an arrest in the executionstyle shoot of a San Antonio Police officer at this hour, as three other officers are shot around this country in just a few hours. If you have moderate to severe Plaque Psoriasis, isnt it time to let the real you shine through . Introducing Otezla Apremilast . Otezla is not an injection or a cream. Its a pill that treats Plaque Psoriasis differently. With otezla, 75 clearer skin is achievable after just 4 months, with reduced redness, thickness, and scaliness of plaques. And the otezla prescribing information has no requirement for routine lab monitoring. Dont take otezla if you are allergic to any of its ingredients. Otezla may increase the risk of depression. Tell your doctor if you have a history of depression or suicidal thoughts, or if these feelings develop. 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Trumps daughter, ivanka, in attendance, but neither reporters nor their cameras were at the meeting which reportedly included a gift of trump of a golf ball like this one, a gold driver worth nearly 4,000. Then came the two businessmen from india who have Trump Properties south of mumbai. According to the Trump Administration, it was just another social call very confident hes not breaking any laws. Reporter the meeting is raising questions. Why its not illegal for a sitting president to run a business, its a question of optics and retethics. Saudi arabia, china, azerbaijan. A month ago there was worry it was being destroyed by his run from office, but since november 8th Things Have Changed and president ial ethic experts are saying the only possible solution to end all of trumps conflicts of interest are for trump to sell it all, put the money in a blind trust, and end the trump empire. Of course a blind trust can work. You have to sell the assets. You cant put the assets in a blind trust and pretend you dont own them. Reporter a large part of trumps business is donald trump. Trumps partners a across the globe are buying the right to license that brand. It brings them more rent money for office space, condos and hotel rooms. The brand also comes with the Trump Organization expertise in design, marketing, operation, almost like a franchise. Business partners buy in because it sells. And the trumps stay involved to make sure the brand doesnt get tarnished. Daniel levinson, a South Florida developer, took over a failing trump property and fought to keep the trump brand. Because he wanted to make sure he had access to ivanka and eric trump in almost every part of the deal. We wanted the association, they want the continuity of brand and that works on both ends. Its profitable for everybody. Reporter in a fox news debate earlier this year, donald trump said instead of selling off the brand, his solution is to pass the brand to the people he has groomed to take it over. All named trump. Not exactly a blind trust. I have Ivanka En Erieric and sitting there, run the company, kids, have a good time, im going to to it for america, okay . Erin, back in january before a single primary was held, Donald Trumps attorney told me the organization at that time was working on a Contingency Plan for the Business Should Trump win. Well, that attorney wouldnt get into the details then, hes not answering my calls today. I think were going to have to wait and see what kind of businesses Trump Organization will be during the presidency and more importantly, erin, who is going to run it. All right. Drew, thank you very much. Of course, the allimportant we, let me bring back my panel. Carl, let me start with you. Trump, as we saw, meeting with two businessmen from india, they currently own trumpbranded properties over there and, you know, trump, look at this, here they are with his trademark thumbs up. Look, this is makes a lot of people uncomfortable. Right. And you have, you know, what theyve always said, the government has always said you have to avoid the illusion, not avoid Conflict Of Interest, the illusion of. Ill say this, obviously im a super trump guy here. He needs to decide blind trust, kids, are his kids part of the administration, part of the business . He needs to make a definitive line on that really soon because either way, if he puts in a blind trust, his name is still on it, hes still going to want to promote it, make sure its profitable. It his kids are in charge, obviously he wants his family to succeed. Youre never going to separate trump entirely from this but can draw a very thick line right through the middle of this and has to do it soon. Alex, heres the thing. Hes going to benefit. There are some places it wont benefit. West side of manhattan, people dont like trump, they rip his name down. Around the world, youre going to have countries say, lets give them this deal, lets do that because they think it gets them in with him. You got to recognize, this is going to be a presidency like no other presidency. Okay . Whether donald trump explicitly says it or not, hes thinking like, and he probably will come out and say this at some point, the people who elected me knew i was a billionaire businessman, knew i had Properties Around the world they dont care if i profit off this job . Thats right, as long as america gets better. Thats what hes going to say. It they even be true. This will be a blind trusond tr a blind trust ivanka running. What shouldnt happen is what happened with the Trump International hotel this week, you had foreign diplomats inv e invited saying we encourage you to have your delegations here. I totally agree. Totally an active solicitation, i gerks uess if, fact, it was. I think were going to have to put up with this stuff. Do we . There are laws against this. Theyre in danger of violating the laws. I think the Trump Administration needs to do three things. First they have to release his tax returns regardless not going to happen. Im just saying if you want to have any keith, that was a big pileon it needs to happen. The idea we think its not going to happen and think its accessible is i dont think its acceptable at all. Hes got to release his tax returns, release his tax returns first, divest his holdings. Its not going to happen. Requires he does that or get an exception from the United States congress. And therird, hes got to have a blind trust that is separate from his family members. If we dont hold him accountable for that, were allowing the most corrupt potential administration in history to take office. The only way to have a Conflict Of Interest is to put it in a blind trust. The chances of happening the chances are close to zero. He should stop laughing at ethics laws and the rest of us as americans. It is its absolutely clear. Just as he conservative friends are saying, the Wall Street Journal has editorialized, he ought a liquidate his total interest. Once hes liquidated it, put the assets into a blind trust. Peter schweitzer wrote clinton cash. You know, very tough book on the clint clintons. Hes urging him to do it. The danger here, once again, were being asked to normalize something that is abnormal and improper. I cant believe 24 hours after this altright conference ended in washington, d. C. , you know, and breitbart and bannon said breitbart is the main platform of the altright. What do we do . We have a conference in washington, d. C. , that is overtly racist, overtly antisemitic and basically is white supremacy. And were all sort of saying, well, thats just donald trump, thats just bannon. No. We wrote about that at the daily beast. Absolutely not. There i agree with you. That hes got to disassociate himself from. Half of the things donald trump has done in the past week, the entire establishment and the media would be eviscerating her. Why are we letting donald trump get away with this . Hes in danger of violating the constitution and laws of our country. Are you saying its okay or going to happen . Congress is going to hold him accountable . Hes not going to get impeached over any of this. He doesnt run a defense company, doesnt run an oil company. Hes going to benefit every day from this. His name on fancy hotels. His value is going to rise in certain parts of the world. If you thought that wasnt going to happen join voted for him, youre crazy. People knew ma they were gwhat getting. He said he was going to have all these ethics rules, drain the swamp. We were not supposed to take him seriously. Did you take him seriously. Of course i didnt. Apparently somebody did. He got elected. We have to hold him accountable. Once he takes office, he needs to actually separate these and needs to start doing it soon. The fact is Hillary Clinton did far worse than this when she was in office. He hasnt done anything wrong yet. That is patently false. We have a President Elect i dont want to talk about Hillary Clinton anymore, she lost. He brought it up. Thanks i will say there is only one way to do it, if theres not

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