give us a question you re attacking us. i m not going give you a question. you are fake news. reporter: the incoming white house press secretary threatening to throw acosta out of future press conferences. i informed him i thought no one should be treated that way and treated that disrespectfully. reporter: trump also not mentioning whether he ll continue the sanctions imposed on russia by president obama. if putin likes donald trump, i consider that an asset not a liability. because we have a horrible relationship with russia. reporter: all this as trump had an attorney lay out his plans to distance himself from his business empire. trump will relinquish control of the company to his two sons and place his assets in a trust a step he says he doesn t have to take. as a president i could run the trump organization, great, great company. i could run the company. i do a very good job. but i don t want to do that. reporter: trump pledging to stop any new overseas ventures
i felt it was only fair that if our news organization is going to be attacked, that we get a chance to ask a follow-up question about what donald trump was talking about, after i asked and you might say demanded, that we have a question, sean spicer, the incoming press secretary did say to me that if i were to do that again, i was going to be thrown out of this press conference. of course, i had to persist and try to get that question asked. harris: but incoming white house press secretary, sean spicer, says jim acosta was in the wrong. he told me that he thought he had a right to ask a question, even though cnn had been granted a question to one of their other correspondence. i informed him that i thought that no one should be treated that way, and treated that disrespectfully. and that if he did it again in the future i would have them removed. if someone did that a president obama or president clinton, or frankly any other human being, i would say the same thing. no one needs
i said his behavior was rude, it inappropriate, and he said he had a right to ask weston. i informed him that i thought no one should be treated that way and treated that disrespectfully. and if he did it again in the future, i would have him removed. tucker, i ve known you long time. you know i am a pretty solid republican. i don t care whether you are a republican or democrat or independent, but if someone did that to president obama or president clinton or frankly any other human being, i would say the same thing. nobody needs to be treated with that level of disrespect and rudeness. i think mr. jim acosta owes the president-elect apology. tucker: the president-elect basically made that same point. saying, you are fake news. there were organizations that were banned from trump events. i m sort of wondering now why. the president-elect is certainly
basically. that was the other sort of audience member he was trying to speak to in those very comments. he was trying to make sure to set the stage on his terms that donald trump will step onto. but i do think that, as van alluded to, there is a little bit of lame duck irrelevancy to a president at this stage. particularly after a long-fought presidential election. and i don t say that disrespectfully. i just think that s the reality of it. donald trump s venue tonight was right in the shadow of fort bragg. and fort bragg has had a disproportionate lift in the middle east in the last ten years. and so i think rolling out mad dog mattis there to people who love that nickname and go woof, woof, woof in the crowd. and then you know, he s again, showmanship. to david s point. showmanship and cheerleading. probably just pulling out that patriotism. very little criticism of the press or other people tonight. that s a good point there.
presidential transition but this is an enormous personal transition for donald trump. he s never been in elected office. he s never been in government at all. you know, we were talking about this earlier, this is not much disrespectfully. he has a new yorker personality where he says what he thinks or he tweets what he things and a president of the united states can t do that. i think that s one of the transitions. or to what degree. remember president obama said i m keeping my blackberry. he wanted to be different after being told everybody has their personal way. and they bring some stamp to the office. the question is what do you leave behind and what do you insist on bringing? if nothing else from this campaign, john, trump proved the assumptions about politics, the rules about politics all of us believed in just don t matter as much anymore, right? the idea of organization being crucial. that data is paramount. that gaffes are fatal. didn t matter. so why do we think when he s