and being acting chief of staff is also a recipe for failure because you re walking around with an expiration date on your forehead and people will not take you seriously. you know, there are many other things we could talk about but another huge problem is that this president is headed into a world of trouble, a series of investigations that will make al hague s final days look like a walk in the park. you want a chief of staff without an expiration date with authority and mick mulvaney doesn t meet the standards on those fronts? there was no plan b. plan a was nick ayers. they threw into the chair somebody who gets along with donald trump. his principle qualification is that he played golf with trump and that trump can stand to have him in the same room. so interesting. nick ayers didn t want the job on a permanent basis or decided he didn t want to. trump didn t agree to that
necessary. no lie detectors are being used or talked about. the white house and the staff are focussed on doing our jobs and not dealing with cowards that refuse to put their names in an anonymous letter. president trump was still taking a flame thrower to the anonymous sources in bob woodward s book, tweeting: why should anyone trust you? comparing woodruff to a dim operative prior to the mid-terms. woodruff on the today show begged to differ. they are not telling the truth. i have never seen an instance when the president is so detached from the reality of what is going on. president trump and bob woodward did find some common ground on the anonymous new york times op-ed. woodruff of criticizing it as being too vague and doesn t meet
we ve been very much focused today on president trump overseas prepares to meet with vladmir putin and those protests breaking out in germany. in washington a different kind of disruption, a resignation and it s a pretty pointed one. the government ethics director quitting six months before his tenure was scheduled to be up. the resignation comes after public and heated clashes with president trump. starting with the refusal to divest from his businesses. he said this back in january. about ethics today because the plan the president has announced doesn t meet the standards that the best of his nominees are meeting and every president in the past four decades has met. this is not a blind trust. it s not even close. his sons are running the
was pretty incensed by what went on there and what he thinks is a far, far inferior way of protecting you know, protecting the american people from a conflict of interest. let s listen. the plan the president has announced doesn t meet the standards that the rest of his nominees are meeting. every president in the past four decades has met. he is going to be asking our men and women in uniform to risk their lives until conflicts around the world. so, no, i don t think divestiture is too high a price to pay to be president of the united states of america. as you know, says in a lot of countries around the world, the way you curry favor with a government is by doing business with their family. there s a big concern that there will be foreign government that is may be trying to stay in his hotels for example, or do business with him to curry favor with the american government. he says that any foreign governments that stay in his properties or his hotels, the profit of that, he is g
the dow was just under 8,000 which would suggest anyone liquidating their assets at the time was likely taking a bath on them. now on the eve of trump s ascendancy, a completely different economic environment. the dow is just under 20,000, the markets have been hitting record highs for months and yet even in such a beneficial atmosphere, donald trump still refuses to sell his holdings in his company. his lawyer explaining yesterday it s just too great a financial sacrifice. instead he s placing his business in a trust run by his sons. a measure so out of the norms of government ethics and the practices of generations of presidents a tend people who serve them that the head of the non-partisan and independent office of government ethics, a man named walter shaub, addressed the president-elect s remarks directly with a remarkably brave and earnest speech yesterday. you don t hear about ethics when things are going well. you ve been hearing a lot about ethics lately. i need to talk abou