going to do this or not? well we ve known each other long enough and i think you know that i ve not had this lifelong desire to be president. my dream was to play center field for the cleveland indians. i think that door is probably shut by now. analytics aside though, you never know, we need a lot more players these days. i will talk to bill james and see if it is still possible. election night and after the election, connie and i heard from so many people around the country, including some, a lot of labor activists, a lot of democratic party activists, a lot of citizens that think that a message, not just a message, but a career fighting for workers, where the dignity, i won my election, because i talk about the dignity of work, whether you swipe a badge, or punch a clock, whether you work for tips, or whether you work on a salary, whether you re taking care of parents and aging parents or raising children, we don t pay enough attention to the dignity of work. too many people i
but indeed these factories were violating those student intern week rules. so essentially you ve got a lot of labor violations. as i said, you see this all throughout china. what this really says is that ivanka trump by having her shoes made in china was sort of assuming this was going to happen, because it happens to everybody. the big brands, the small brands. she had to know this was going to occur. we also know labor activists have disappeared so she has to assume that would happen in her case, which in fact it just has. when you say she had to know, just in april china granted preliminary approval for spa and handbag trademark applications. this actually happened the exact same day the chinese president xi jinping held a summit in florida at mar-a-lago with ivanka s dad. ivanka met xi jinping on the day these trademarks were issued. this weren t the only trade
labor activists in china who allege that workers at factories making ivanka trump shoes have been paid the equiv lint of $1 an hour. activists with china labor watch sent their findings to miss trump. for the record her company says they are committed to working only with suppliers and factories that meet international labor standards. enforcing that across international lines can be challenging for any company, and tonight we have another chapter in the story of the chinese labor activists who have been carrying out that investigation. according to the director of their non-profit, three of those investigators, including the two that you see here, went missing over the weekend. the wife of one of the men says she got a call today from local police telling her that her husband had been detained on suspicion of illegal eavesdropping. at that point he d been missing since saturday. the new york times says the three could be held for days or weeks before they re formally arrested. the n
okay. here s something to put a pin in. as a presidential adviser and first daughter, ivanka trump has ced questions about her outside business interests. notably her fashion company. she stepped down from running the company in january but still owns it. back in april, the company got a green light from the chinese government for three new trademarks. that same night she joined her father at a dinner with chinese leaders. it s the kind of thing that raises eyebrows. more recently the ivanka trump brand has been a target for labor activists in china who allege that workers at factories making ivanka trump shoes have been paid the equiv lint of $1 an hour. activists with china labor watch sent their findings to miss trump. for the record her company says they are committed to working only with suppliers and factories that meet international labor standards. enforcing that across international lines can be challenging for any company, and tonight we have another chapter in the story of t
ivanka trump and jared kushner. chuck grassly calling for investigation into a chinese company with property for a green card. earlier reported the company looking for investors to finance luxury project in new jersey. at the center of it, a complicated visa program. the program offers foreign investors chance at green card in exchange for $500,000 investment in a u.s. business. a spokesperson for a company involved says they re fully compliant. three labor activists have disappeared, not seen for days, investigating manufacturing process of a chinese company. that company works for ivanka trump. they work with china labor watch to publish report low pay, excessive overtime, misuse of