Talk about trumps conflict of interest, which he says are unprecedented in americas history. Then profit years of the great foreclosure machine go to washington. We look at Donald Trumps check up Steven Mnuchin for treasury secretary, his deep ties to wall street including working as a partner for Goldman Sachs or his father also worked. Nine e indymac during the financial crisis, we bought it in a highly competitive sixmonth auction. We save a lot of jobs and we created a lot of opportunities for corporate loans. Amy and promises by president elect donald trump to deport millions of immigrants has drawn new attention to whether they can be detained indefinitely as they fight their cases as the Supreme Court considers a case that could give immigrants the same rights. We will be quit a man detained for three years before he won his case and became a u. S. Citizen. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Donald trump has chosen retired marine general james mattis to be defense secretary. Trump made the announcement during a rally in cincinnati on thursday night. Retired general mattis by his nickname mad dog, which he reportedly received after leading u. S. Troops during the 2004 b battlef fallujah in iraq. Mattis listed in the marines at 19. He fought he served as a major general. In may 2004, he ordered an airstrike in a small iraqi village that hit a wedding, killing about 42 people who were attending the wedding ceremony. He went on to lead United States 201020 13,and from but the Obama Administration cut short his tour over concerns mattis was too hawkish on iran, reportedly calling for a series of covert actions there. Mattis has drawn criticism over his apparent celebration of killing, including saying in 2005 about the taliban, its a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them. General mattis only retired from the military in 2013, meaning he will need congress to waive rules requiring defense secretaries to be civilians for seven or more years after leaving the military. The rules are in place to ensure civilian control over the u. S. Armed forces. Already new york senator kirsten , gillibrand has said shell vote against the waiver for general mattis, saying civilian control of our military is a fundamental principle of american democracy, and i will not vote for an exception to this rule. Donald trumps announcement came amid a speech in a halffilled hockey stadium downtown cincinnati, during which his supporters renewed campaign chants, including build the wall and lock her up a reference to trumps former opponent, Hillary Clinton. Trump repeatedly attacked the media as being dishonest. He also claimed he won the election in a landslide, despite the fact that Hillary Clinton is now ahead in the popular vote by over 2. 5 million. The speech in cincinnati came after trump spoke in indianapolis, where he celebrated his involvement in carriers decision to keep about keep hundreds of jobs at its indianapolis air conditioner factory, instead of moving them to mexico. Vermont senator Bernie Sanders has criticized the deal to keep the jobs in the United States as setting a dangerous precedent, since trump used a 7 million Corporate Tax break to convince the company not to ship the jobs overseas. This is precisely the type of tax break trump said he was against during his campaign. Meanwhile, local reporter, rafael sanchez, who has spent nearly a year investigating the carrier plant and the proposed job relocation, said carrier denied press c credentials foror trtrumps speech yesterday. This is sanchez. So many stories to tell. Unlike my colleague katie hines, i was unable to be at the conference. That is because my present resident pressss credential s the night, which meant i cannot be inside the carrier plant. It appears after 10 months of telling the workers story, going toto monterrey, mexico, and askg tough questions of the company, that all came with a price today. Amy sanchez, who works for the indianapolis station wrtv, also said that trump did not save a full 1000 jobs and that at least 600 more carrier jobs are still at risk of being shipped to mexico. Are20 of those jobs production workers. Those are the folks who make the gas furnaces. About 300 of those jobs were the corporate jobs that were never going to leave anyway. That is where we get to the 1100 or close to the 1100. Heres the bad news in the short term unless something gets done, some 600 jobs are still scheduled to go to monterrey, mexicoco. Amamy donald d trump has stillt chosen his secretatary of state, but new media reports say he is considering two additional candidates, exxon mobil Ceo Rex Tillerson and former exxon mobil ceo lee raymond. Exxon mobil is the United States largest oil company. Its currently being investigated by a handful of attorneys gegeneral, followingng revelations that for decades the Company Covered up its own scientific findings linking rising Carbon Emissions to dangerous climate change. Donaldrurump has expressedisis support for the completion of the 3. 8 billion Dakota Access pipeline, which has faced months of resistance from the Standing Rock sioux, representatives from more than 200 indigenous nations from across the americasas, and thousands s of nonnative allie. In a communications s briefing, trumps Transition Team said his support for the pipeline has nothing to do with his personal investments. As of 2015, trump had between 500,000 and 1 million invested in the pipeline company, Energy Transfer partners, although trump spokesperson hope hicks recently claimed trump has sold off his shares in the company. This comes as north dakota governor Jack Dalrymple continues to back away from attempts to force water protectors to leave the main resistance camp, now saying authorities will not stop and fine people carrying supplies to the site. The governor says his recent executive order declaring the land an evacuation area sought only to warn people about the cold. In response, the Standing Rock sioux said the governor of north dakota and sheriff of Morton County are relative newcomers here. It is understandable they would be concerned about severe winter weather. The first of a group of as many as 2000 veterans have begun to arrive at Standing Rock in north dakota, where they say theyll serve to form a human shield around the water protectors to protect them from the increasingly Violent Police crackdown. Meanwhile, protesters gathered in dozens of cities across the world thursday in opposition to the dakota accesess pipeline, including in tokyo, london, vancouver, calgary, and cities across the u. S. In minneapolis, six protesters locked themselves to each other inside a Wells Fargo Office building, blocking the elevators for hours. They left only after receiving a letter saying wells fargo would meet with tribal elders before january 1 to hear their concerns about the banks investments in the pipeline. In canada, members of the mohawk nation have begun blockading freight trains carrying oil by rail from crossing their teterritory, which lies along te st. Lawrence river near montreal. They say the blockade is in solidarity with Standing Rock. Meanwhile, the chippewas of the thames first nation have sued the canadian government in canadas Supreme Court in order to challenge the permitting process for enbridges line 9 tar sands pipeline, saying their treaty rights to consultation were not met before the pipeline was approved. If the Supreme Court rules in favor of the chippewas, it could set a precedent requiring formal nationtonation consultations between the canadian government and First Nations for all future Energy Projects that would affect native land. Backck in the united statetes, studentsts at campuses across te country protested thursday, demanding their university or college become a sanctuary campus. In the wake of Donald Trumps promises to deport millions of people immediately upon taking office, students are demanding University Administrators refuse to share information with immigration authorities, refuse to allow ice agents on campus and support equal access to , instate tuition and Financial Aid and scholarships for undocumented students. This is Thais Marques in new york city. I am undocumented. This matters to me because it directly affects my life but also, ive seen what deportations due to families. Ive seen the pain of my community is so deep. This is just to show our community it is ok to come out as unafrfraid and unapologetic d really show ourur resilience tht we are going to fight and this is only the first step. Amy the pentagon has acknowledged killing two dozen civilians in u. S. Airstrike in area in july, although some organizations say the death toll was considerably higher. The strike in a village near manbij. Died inas 200 civilians a series of u. S. S. Airstrikes in jujuly. Frenchch p president holland has said he wiwill not seek another term in next years election. Hes extremely popular in france. His Approval Ratings plummeted in part due to h his backiking a deepeply unpopopular laboror low refoform which sparked protests and strikes. On thursday, he said he would not compete in the Upcoming Elections because he does not want the only choice for voters to be between t the c conservate right and the far right. Human rights activity advocates, burma militarys ongoing violence against muslim in the north, which has sent more than 10,000 fleeing into neighboring areas. The reportedly have burned whole villages and used helicopter gunships to open fire against the civilians. The entire area has been sealed by a military order in order to keep out aid workers and journalists. The u. N. Human rights agencies has pilots may amamount to crcrs againsnst humanity. The Obama Administration has challenged a federal judges decision to block the implementation of a new rule that would have made 4 million more americans eligible for overtime pay. And cuba continues its nine days of mourning following the death of revolutionary leader fidel castro. A caravan n carrying castros ashes has been traversing thee country, wherere its s been mey thousands of mourners. This is Angel Santiesteban in santa clara the town where castros decisive revolutionary battle was won in december 1958. Within only hours of the citys capture by castros forces, the u. S. Backed dictator general lgenencio batitista fled cuba and castro claimed victory. F fidel is and will bebe the guiding examplple for all l of e rerevolutions inin the world. Hehe will b be the examample, te guide and beacon of light that shines a path for the restless in every couountry and e every contntinent. Fidel will always be there and we will follow hisis example. Amy and those are some of the headlines. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Presidenentelect donald trump kicked off his victory tour thursday at a rally in indiana, where he celebrated his involvement in c carriers decision to keep some jobs in the u. S. Instead of moving them to mexico. Mr. Trump so many jobs are leaving and going to other countries. Not just mexico, many, many other countries. China is making so much of o our product that we are clclosing oa lolot of plans. I wrote down some numbers that are incredible. The numbers of manufacacturing jobs that are lolost, especially in the rest built. The rest dealt is so incredible. Were losing compapanies it is unbelievable. One after another. Unitited technologies s and carr stepped it up and now theyre keeping the nunumber is over 1100 people, which is so great. So great. Amy carrier is a multibillion Dollar Company that makes air conditioners. The single largest customer of its Parent Company, united technologies, is the pentagon. Trump said the deal for carrier to keep the jobs in state reportedly includes a 7 million incentive package with tax breaks and reduced regulations. Mr. Trump one o of the things were doing to keep them as we will be e lowering o our busines tax from 35 , hopefully, down to 15 which would take us from the highest tax nation virtually in the world this is terrible for business to one of the lower tax. Not the lowest yet, but one of the lower tax. The other thing we are doing is regulations. About six years ago, 260 new had passed. Gulations 53 of which affect this claim. 53 new regegulations masassively expensive, probably none of them amount to anything in terms of safety or the things you would have regulations for. Amy meanwhile, it is believed more than 1000 workers for the company in indiana will reportedly still lose their jobs. Carrier employees at the plant in nearby huntington, indiana, were handed letters under the header, Company Update on indianapolis operations. The announcement read while this announcement is good news for many, we recognize it is not good news for everyone. We are moving forward with previously announced plans to relocate the fan coil manufacturing lines, with the expected completion by the end of 2017. That are closing the huntington plant. This comes as donald trump announced plans to leave his businesses. In a series of tweets wednesday morning, he tweeted i will be holding a major News Conference in new york city with my children on december 15 to discuss the fact that i will be leaving my great business in total in order to fully focus on running the country in order to make America Great again while i am not mandated to do this under the law, i feel it is visually important, as president , to in no way have a conflict of interest with my various businesses. Hence, legal documents are being crafted which take me completely out of business operations. The presidency is a far more important task after trumps twitter announcement, the office of government ethics responded with a tweet storm of its own, writing realdonaldtrump bravo only way to resolve these conflicts of interest is to divest. Good call and realdonaldtrump this divestiture does what handing over control could never have done. Ethics experts say trump must divest from his business interests to avoid conflicts of interest. Well for more, we are joined by two guests. We are starting with Robert Wiseman president of public , citizen, and has b been following what he calls trumps corporate takeover of federal agencies and has written that trumps conflicts of interest are unprecedented in american history. But i want to start, rob, by talking about carrier and what exactly is understood at this point. Now, it sounds like about 800 jobs are going to be saved while about 1100 jobs will be lost with the closing of one of the carrier plant. But this is all, as a result of a 7 million tax break for carrier . That seems to be right. Trump yesterday in his speech said companies that leave the United States to take jobs that will be punished one way or the other. That in fact, what this deal is about is paying a bribe to carrier to stay. As you were saying in the lead up, not really stay, some jobs state, not the numbers he said. On terms that are unknown for a time that is unknown. We do know that in the past, these kinds of deals to pay subsidies to retain jobs or get new jobs typically dont work in the jobs that are promised to materialize in the jobs that are supposed to stay dont stay for a long. It is also interesting that he said in a clip you played, part of the way he allegedly convinced carrier to keep these hundreds of jobs in indiana is through his promise of tax cuts and wiping away regulation. Well, those tax cuts, if they are able to be delivered on which we surely hope we can block actually would have nothing to do with where carrier locates itself. It will have the same tax rate whether or not it does production in mexico or indiana. The regulations he talks about, you know, yes and aggregate number but he does not name a single regulation he thinks is unfair to carrier or does the wrong thing for the american people. So those kinds of regulations he is talking about wiping away include things like establishing that people who work long hours will be paid proper overtime compensation. Amy i want to talk i want to turn to donald trump speaking last march. Mr. Trump i wilill call the hed of carrier and i will say, i hope you enjoy your new building. I hope you enjoy y your stay in mexico. Here is the story, folks. Every single airconditioning unit that you build and send across our border, youre going to pay a 35 tax on that unit. Amy in that same speech, he decried giving tax breaks and said we will just tax every of mr. That you sent up from mexico. Exactly the opposite ofof what s happening now, rob. R right. There are a lot of things that can be done. In this particular case without paying bribes. As you point out, the Parent Company basically feeds from the defense department. This is a governmentdependent company, one of which the u. S. Government has the most leverage without paying bribes if it chooses to exerted him and t trp did not do that. Amy and the issue of exactly what are the promimises that w e made to these companies. Again, promises that donald trump himself has decried over and over again saying companies should be not just should not be rewarded by tax breaks with a leave the country. Carrier, on by one of t