is not divesting from his businesses and doesn t feel he has to. that he said the president elect hasn t consulted the ethics office and the president elect s plan would not avoid financial conflicts of interest. of course it won t. having donald jr. try to dump pollution costs on the state of south carolina will not relieve the people of south carolina from the mess they are in anymore than having don sr. make that instead. this is a mess. this is not hypothetical. this is happening right now. south carolina has to make this decision. so far republicans in congress do not care. the republicans sign off on trump s ethics plan. so far the only response from republicans in washington to this unprecedented ethics problem for the new administration their only response has been to threaten to subpoena and implicitly threaten
the president s personal income. this week, the president elect announced with great fanfare he is not divest veing from his businesses and doesn t feel he has to. that he said the president elect hasn t consulted the ethics office and the president elect s plan would not avoid financial conflicts of interest. of course it won t. having donald jr. try to dump pollution costs on the state of south carolina will not relieve the people of south carolina from the mess they are in anymore than having don sr. make that instead. this is a mess. this is not hypothetical. this is happening right now. south carolina has to make this decision. so far republicans in congress do not care. the republicans sign off on trump s ethics plan. so far the only response from republicans in washington to this unprecedented ethics
south carolina will not relieve the people of south carolina from the mess they are in anymore than having don sr. make that instead. this is a mess. this is not hypothetical. this is happening right now. south carolina has to make this decision. so far republicans in congress do not care. the republicans sign off on trump s ethics plan. so far the only response from republicans in washington to this unprecedented ethics problem for the new administration their only response has been to threaten to subpoena and implicitly threaten the funding of the government of itti ethics guy. it s not going to work. just ask south carolina. think of the south carolina government officials trying to make the decision whether or not donald trump would have to pay
order, on pushing the edge in eastern europe, on georgia or so much more that we are not in sync. yes, would we like to have a relationship with russia? but it has to be a russia that is based on common interests and common values. and that s hard to achieve with putin who really is kgb and wants a greater russia. senator bob menendez from new jersey, member of that committee talking with rex tillerson. thank you for joining us. quick break. coming up more on donald trump and his announcement in a he has no plans to enter into a blind trust or fully divest his assets and he s going to leave his sons in charge of his company. does that increase the possibility of an ethics problem? plus, congressman and civil rights icon, john lewis joins senator corybooker in testifying against the nomination of jeff sessions for attorney general. we need someone who are going
make slight alterations. they say they re going to divest some. it s not clear they would divest it all. we re in a situation where it doesn t seem like ivanka, jared, mr. trump himself are going to disentangle themselves, avoid a conflict of interest, unless they re browbeat by the press to do so because i don t think the republicans in congress are going to do so. it s not clear a federal judge would rule jared kushner couldn t work at the white house. so the recourse has to be the media. i notice you didn t mention the new york observer which jared kushner owns. so he could have his own newspaper to report favorably about him. let s shift and talk about this ethics problem. there was a letter that was written to senator chuck schumer as well as to senator elizabeth warren from the office of government ethics. the director wrote that the announced hearing schedule for several nominees who have not completed the ethics review process is of great concern to