your self in. this is new day with questions cuomo and alisyn camerota. good morning. welcome to your new day. we begin with trump offensive on the defensive over its lack of transparency. the white house refusing to release the president s tax returns once geb aagain and now president is sued to have visitors logs from the white house made public, something he has argued in the past should be public. remember donald trump promised to, quote, drain the swamp if he made it to the white house. ethics efforts call his administration the least transparent in decades. it s day 89 of the trump presidency. let s begin our coverage with joe johns. he s live at the white house. good morning, joe. good morning, alisyn. it is tax day when millions of americans have to have their taxes in and a reminder president trump has not released his tax returns. he ran on this issue of transparency, obvious used it as
they are not going to discuss it with me. again, i don t have to do this.. tucker: some ethics efforts say the new plan does not come close to resolving conflicts of interest. we are joined from minneapolis, he is a law professor who served as an ethics attorney for president george w. bush. thank you for joining us tonight. thanks for having me, tucker. tucker: you heard with the president-elect said, i m distancing myself from the company, my boys are taking it over, neither my daughter and i will have conversation with them about how it runs. they are divesting from a bunch of foreign deals they have, and they are taking the profits andn putting into the u.s. treasury. why that not enough? the problem remains if the president is going to own the business, first, the only addressed the profits from barring government transactions with the hotels. we haven t heard about what they re going to do about loans
be running the company. they re going to be running it in a very professional manner, they are not going to discuss it with me. again, i don t have to do this. tucker: some ethics efforts say the new plan does not come close to resolving conflicts of interest. we are joined from minneapolis, he is a law professor who served as an ethics attorney for president george w. bush. thank you for joining us tonigh tonight. thanks for having me, tucker. tucker: you heard with the present elect said, i m distancing myself from the company, my boys are taking it over, neither my daughter and i will have conversation with them about how it runs. they are divesting from a bunch of foreign deals they have, and they are taking the profits and putting into the u.s. treasury. why that not enough? the problem remains if the president is going to own the business, first, the only addressed the profits from
giants or the jets but not the cowboys. i hay the cowboys. reporter: football liegeance aside new jersey citizens might like to know their governor s trip to a billionaire suite, including ticket and transportation was paid for by the billionaire jerry jones himself. it does raise ethics questions. according to new jersey s uniform ethics code there is a zero-tolerance policy for state officials accepting gifts, but christie s office justified this gift citing at code it says that gifts are okay if they come from relatives or personal frets. rutgers politics professor says ethics efforts have long struggled to define friendship. some decisions have been made by friendship is basically has to be reciprocal that it s fine if a friend takes you out to dinner and you have a receipt
supervisors are largely under the employment of the crooks. the people they re supposed to be supervising, whether it s the regulators and the banks, the regulators and the energy companies, the regulators and the auto companies. you can pick the list, and it s either because they re incentivized to get a job of with one of those companies when they leave government. or they just came out of government and are coming in to be a supervisor. is it time for america and its government to be honest about its regulatory system, as one that is largely corrupted by those who it is supposed to be regulating? dylan, i think what president obama has done since he came into power here in washington as our president, is to say that days of the washington of old are over. and so the influences of special interests, he has been fighting them from day one. and with respect to what s happening in the regulatory world. we have put in ethics measures and beefed up the ethics efforts