with at all. the sanctions have been in place a while now. the administration should take a look and say, are the results what we were looking for. brand-new administration. it s a good time to revitalize they want the sanctions lifted, just to be clear, because they think it will be a business opportunity for them if the sanctions are lifted. they will be able to make more money and do more business in russia. yeah. businesses traditionally have their own view of things. the businesses acknowledge, we have syria, crimea, ukraine. we know that s unfinished business and that will be top of the priority list when trump becomes president. he ll have to deal with those. where businesses can play a vital role is to be somewhat of a shock absorber between the two nations as we deal with delicate national and world security issues. when you have a relationship on business to business and there is an economic impact in both
have known it. it s a fact. you all have it on tape, that the republican nominee for president was encouraging russia to hack his opponent because he believed that that would help his campaign. that s not a controversial statement. i am not trying to be argumentative, but i am trying to acknowledge a basic fact. what do you make of all this, carol? not trying to be argumentative. there is a couple things going on here. one, you are seeing the breakdown of the camaraderie that was happening between the trump folks and the obama white house. this is obviously a bump in the road. and then the there are two things. the white house is on the defensive because of the questions about why the president didn t do something sooner. that element is playing into it. and the president was not happy with the way donald trump has come out and questioned the intelligence community. and so, all of that is kind of
for the president-elect are busy working on disconnecting trump from his businesses. critics say, if trump stops short of a total separation he could be violating the law on day one of his administration. donald trump is sounding as if cutting his ties to his vast real estate holdings may not be so tough after all, saying in a tweet, the media tries so hard to make my move to the white house as it pertains to my business so complex when actually it isn t. that s not how his own transition team is putting it. on the same day trump was supposed to hold a news conference to detail the separation from his businesses, a spokesman said, it s complicated. there are obviously internal considerations as far as what the structure will look like for family members that will be taking the reins of the business. the priority here is to make sure that we get it right. reporter: sources stress the president-elect s plans are not final. trump s sons are expected to take the reins of the family bus
the american people have understood exactly what they re getting and voted overwhelmingly for him. he has been very clear about what he owns, the role of his family and everything else since he announced that he was running for president. and they overwhelmingly elected him with all of that on the table. your response, sir? well, first, hillary clinton did win the popular vote, so the idea that he was overwhelmingly elected i think sort of flies in the face of the recent record. but more importantly, donald trump alone, among modern candidates for president, refused steadfastly refused to release his taxes, so we have no idea what the scope of his conflicts of interest might be. whether some of his development projects were financed by russian oligarchs or whether he owes money to banks in china. in the absence of knowing that, i think it s hard for the general public to assess whether or not he has conflicts of interest that are impacting decisions he makes in foreign policy,
and jared kushner are likely to work in the white house. critics argue that s a problem asking now trump s sons could be poised to run his companies while sitting in on transition meetings like this round-table with tech giants. there are laws on the books against this. he will follow every one of them. don jr. and eric trump will not have mr. trump has made it clear in january he ll lay out the process by which he ll focus on this country and leave his business to his family and others to run. reporter: a new poll finds the public is worried about the potential for conflicts. with 52% saying they re concerned trump will place his business interests ahead of the american people. a group of democratic senators led by elizabeth warren plans to introduce a bill that would force trump to put his holdings in a blind trust, saying in a statement, the american people deserve to know that the president of the united states is working to do what s best for the country, not using his