government that s renting out of one of their buildings? what is a new deal, jake? at the end of the day, ivanka is in the middle or at the tail end of negotiating a deal to license her clothing line in japan by a company that s owned by partially owned by the state. is that a new deal? how about the deal to start a hotel brand that s marked towards millennials? is that a new deal? we don t know. again, this is another example of donald trump trying to answer the question but only raising more questions at the end of the day. all right, cristina alesci. thank you so much. we wondered if mr. trump would take questions on this topic on december 15th when he said he would explain how he d wall off his global empire from the white house. that date has been put off. president-elect trump has not held a press conference in 139 days, the day he told russia to hack hillary clinton s e-mail
are prone to infections, or have flu-like symptoms or sores. don t start humira if you have an infection. if you re still just managing your symptoms, talk with your gastroenterologist about humira. with humira, remission is possible. welcome back to the lead. staying in politics now. a handful of republican senators expressing concern about donald trump s secretary of state pick, exxonmobil ceo rex tillerson. because of his long relationship with russian officials. and a handful of republican nay votes are all it would take to sink his chances. chairman of the senator foreign relations committee senator bob corker of tennessee joins me now. senator corker was also under consideration to be trump s secretary of state. thank you for joining us, senator. marco rubio, your colleague, tweeted this before tillerson s nomination, quote, being a friend of vladimir is not an attribute i am hoping for from a secretary of state. he has since gone on post
go through this process in january, like other committees are going to be doing, and we ll get to the bottom of it. that s our job, and we ll do this in earnest. and we certainly don t want another country inappropriately potentially interfering in an election in this way. senator bob corker, chairman of the senate foreign relations committee. thank you for your time. we appreciate it. thank you. thank you very much. call it the art of the non-deal. donald trump now says he ll have his sons eric and don jr. run his companies and he will not do any new deals when he is president. does that really avoid the potential conflicts of interest out there. as humanity melts down in aleppo a ceasefire agreement is reached. will it stop innocent women and children from being executed? (woman) one year ago today mom started searching for her words.
fact, get to baghdadi as they make progress against these targets. barbara starr at the pentagon for us. thank you so much. consumer warning now. this item is in kitchens everywhere and now 8 million of these popular kitchen gadgets are being recalled because they might cut your mouth. that warning ahead. you won t want to miss it. then, donald trump says you can t catch a hacker unless you catch the hacker in the act. is that true? investigators and how they find cyber fingerprints. (vo) it s the holidays at verizon,
just heard bob corker saying the foreign relations committee will be conducting a review. they take this very seriously. they think it s real. it is basically seen as questionable for most republicans and democrats in congress as to why you would say object to an investigation into whether a foreign power was trying some espionage role in an american election. there are two issues. whether it was russia and what the goal was. both of the questions can be solved with an investigation. it will be interesting to see if trump s posture on this changes once he is sworn in. we ll see. the other thing about this issue, there is a third conclusion, which is did it make a difference. and that is almost you can t really even measure that. i mean, that s just somebody s opinion w opinion. who knows. it seems to me mr. trump may be concerned about that, as if that makes it illegitimate. you hear very few democratic