they have to get to the bottom of some of these allegations whether or not people in his campaign and icircle were in touch with the members and surrogates. richard quest is with us as well. how do you think the president-elect handled the entire issue of his business relationship. he is trying to walk away from potential conflicts of interest, specially when it comes to foreign ties to the trump organization. did he meet the bottom line basic standards required? no. that s not my verdict. that s the verdict of the head of the office of government ethics who has described the trump plan to create a family trust with an ethics adviser as being in their words wholly inadequate. the problem here, wolf, is that it is not a blind trust. the sons will be running the company. he could return to the company after he has finished being
he has gotten a windfall. he is going to have tax deferrals and a higher tax price and dealing with aexxonmobil is one year. in a year from now, they will be able to call on you knowing that you will be the secretary of state and that you spent a lifetime at a company and you have a global view as to how that company operates and other companies similarly situated. i don t know that they did or didn t. it raises a serious question. i would like to have seen him say he was going to for his-term exclude himself and many actions on exxonmobil. i would like to have a better understanding of this trance section that he gets all of this
wu once he is president. he says he is putting his holdings in a trust that will be run by his two sons as they take total control of the company. trump says he won t sell his stake in the firm urged by some watch dogs to avoid conflict of interest. senator marco rubio says he won t say whether he will vote for rex tillerson after a day of tough questions during the confirmation hearing specially about his tie toss russia. breaking with trump on some key foreign policy issues including russian aggression in the you crain and climate change. also breaking, u.s. military s first response to north korea s claim that it could launch an intercontinental ballistic missile. they have learned the defense department has deployed a high-tech sea-based radar system to watch for a potential launch in the coming months.
lobbying millions of dollars. that s why i held up the lobbying forms. lobbying against the very sanctions he said they never lobbied against. it is difficult to understand he never had a conversation with president-elect about russia or that he didn t know the s.e.c. brought to his company s attention that they were, in essence, dealing with companies that were subject to the state sponsors of terrorism. i get concerned. either he is avoiding the question or if he is not in command of what was happening at the company, can he be in command of a large organization like the state department and its employees both here and around the world. bottom line, do you think he will be the next secretary of state? republicans have the vote to obviously confirm him if they stay united. they won t need any democratic votes for that. there may be some democratic votes. at the end of the day, that s
president. we had a real life example of this today. there is a dubai property company called dmak in a meeting with president-elect trump and his family offered a $2 billion deal. the president-elect said today they rejected the deal and d-mcafee grea d-mack agrees that was the substance of the conversation. you are going to have foreign companies that are going to try to curry favor by going to the sons. you don t need to go to the president. the sons are running the company. secondly, how can you have a blind trust when you know everything that s in it because you have refused to divest yourself? tonight, the ethics experts say that the trump plan is simply not adequate.