experts say, is to sell his assets, put the proceeds in what s called a blind trust run by someone with no connections to the family, and any other arrangement, such as the one that he s proposing, looks like it falls short from an ethical standpoint, at least according to the reporting i ve done so far. so the question for many people at home is, is the president subject to any regulation or oversight, when it comes to conflicts? now, clearly, he can t accept a bribe, right? but let s say he wants to change the terms of a deal he negotiated with the federal government, like the lease he has on his hotel in washington, d.c., for example. there s nothing standing in his way to go ahead and do that. now, ethics lawyers are pointing to a clause in the constitution that they say could trip up trump. it actually pertains to foreign governments. it s called the emollients clause. it says no government official can accept money from a foreign government, but experts don t know if that clause
care taken to put firewalls, to have ethics lawyers flagging stuff, to say to voluntarily, proactively disclose, to point out possible conflicts of interest? well, look, they raise $2 billion. and there is no evidence that any yet of any criminal wrong doing, anything that there is a standard below criminal wrong doing. there is a standard of the perception of conflict of interests. no. that s not where this goes. fox news wants a federal investigators today. this is part of the larger plot. always, always, always. it s always based on criminality. this is what i wrote today. is that people use the phrase clinton rules in two different ways. they use clinton rules to talk about the clintons don t think that they should follow the rules, and then there s clinton rules which is the way journalists consistently kind of throw out normal evidentiary standards in going after the clintons. both of these kind of rules exist. clintons regularly cut ethical corners and are a little b
in the colombia free trade deal, colombia makes a donation to the clinton foundation, the secretary pushes for a colombia free trade agreement. right. that seems pretty ridiculous on its face because the colombia free trade agreement is already a policy priority. it s going to happen independent. exactly. what does seem clear, though, is there is a lot of money going into the clinton foundation. there are a lot of people who have interests before the state department who are donating, right? and given what hillary clinton was walking into, shouldn t there have been unbelievable care taken to put firewalls, to have ethics lawyers flagging stuff, to say to voluntarily, proactively disclose, to point out possible conflicts of interest? well, look, they raise $2 billion. and there is no evidence that any yet of any criminal wrong doing, anything that there is a standard below criminal wrong doing. there is a standard of the perception of conflict of interests. no. that s
the colombia free trade deal colombia makes a donation the secretary pushes for colombian free trade agreement. that seems pretty ridiculous on its face because the colombian free trade agreement is already a policy priority. what does seem clear, though, is there s a lot of money going in the clinton foundation, a lot of people who have interest before the state department who are donating, right? and given what hillary clinton was walking into shouldn t have there have been unbelievable care taken to put fire walls, to have ethics lawyers flagging stuff, to say to toll varl pro actively disclose to point out possible conflicts of interest? they raised $2 billion and there s no evidence that any yet of any criminal wrong doing, anything that even there s a standard below criminal wrong doing, there s a standard below conflict of interest. no, that is not where this goes. it s part of a larger plot.
knowing this is happening. so for his career to unravel so quickly, people are surprised by that and to learn he is over $3 million in campaign coughers and what will happen with that. can he keep it. he has two top d.c. ethics lawyers and he can pay them and he will have legal fees and he s still consulting lawyers several hours a day and has been for about a month now. that money will dissipate it quite quickly but he is free to use it. he will leave office officially at the end of march. jake sherman, senior congressional reporter for commitco. people were arrested after a fight broke out during a committee meeting. chairs and punches being thrown captured on video. the police commissioner and district attorney were there trying to explain why police