financially benefited to pretty significant amount with a multimillion dollar investment from what his treasury nominee said. first of all, i don t know if he has that investment. can we know that? let me get back to you. it s important. because remember he has accountants and lawyers working literally around the clock to making sure that what needs to be done by a man who is successful in business in modern times is sufficiently disentangled for him to take his job as president of the united states and focus on that 110%. secondly, i would expect the treasury secretary designee of a conservative republican president to say they would like to privatize fannie and freddie. i don t think that should surprise anybody. it wouldn t be controversial if we knew whether or not the president was going with every other president we ve known, we ve never even had to ask, we look up and check to see if the president had an entanglement where he would be
oe of those 104 pages it says that he had money invested in a hedge fund that s placed a particularly big aggressive bet that fanny may and freddie mac are going to be broadcast. so he picks this treasury nominee. the day after he picks mnuchin to be his nominee. the stock goes through the roof. if donald trump is invested in the hedge fund, he just financially benefited to pretty significant amount with a multimillion dollar investment from what his treasury nominee said. first of all, i don t know if he has that investment. can we know that? let me get back to you. it s important. because remember he has accountants and lawyers working literally around the clock to making sure that what needs to be done by a man who is
a congressman, then buying that stock, that would be a problem. you just gave the democratic senators a good line of questioning to ask. i m sure they re watching you. well done. well done. let me ask you something along the same lines. i m not going to ask you about the president-elect s tax returns because that s very well but he did release 104 pages. on one of those 104 pages it says that he had money investe in a hedge fund that s placed a particularly big aggressive bet that fanny may and freddie mac are going to be broadcast. so he picks this treasury nominee. the day after he picks mnuchin to be his nominee. the stock goes through the roof. if donald trump is invested in the hedge fund, he just
benefiting. the issue here is we don t know. the new york times directly asked the transition does he still hold this particular mvment which was directly affected by this announcement the day after he announced and his answer was we are not releasing this information at this time. that would be easy enough to announce. the third thing i want to say about that, though, that s a pretty small holding compared to everything that the man has 3 to 15 million. sounds like a lot of money to me and you, but the fact is that it s not a huge investment when you consider the idea that he would pick steve mnuchin to be the treasury secretary and say, while you re out there say you d like to privatize fannie and freddie, an idea that many conservatives have had should we not be concerned about any private financial gain he might have from these transactions? no, i m not saying that. the presumptive guilt, negativity it s a question.
but does it say it s illegal? if it s a violation of the stock act, then presumably there will be an investigation of that, it wasn t technically illegal but it was affecting the stock price through his work as a congressman, then buying that stock, that would be a problem. you just gave the democratic senators a good line of questioning to ask. i m sure they re watching you. well done. well done. let me ask you something along the same lines. i m not going to ask you about the president-elect s tax returns because that s very well but he did release 104 pages. on one of those 104 pages it says that he had money invested in a hedge fund that s placed a particularly big aggressive bet that fanny may and freddie mac are going to be broadcast. so he picks this treasury nominee. the day after he picks mnuchin