Ethics, the office of government ethics. He is in an awkward position because it his job to make sure that politicians behave and talk about their conflicts and is sort of let the public know what is going on. He is in an unusual position because donald trump, unlike any president in modern times has basically kept quiet on many of the entanglements he has in the business world. That has put him in the unusual position of saying, mr. President elect, you should do this, and the president elect basically ignoring him. That has caused him to publicly say this is not a good thing and undermines the whole notion of the open skies, clean air we do in american politics, and that has gotten him in an awful lot of trouble with republicans. He has been vetting quite a lot of nominees, and because of the wealth of a lot of the nominees, it is taking a lot of time, but they compress the time to do it to the point where people are actually having confirmation hearings before they have been complet
Ethics, the office of government ethics. He is in an awkward position because it his job to make sure that politicians behave and talk about their conflicts and is sort of let the public know what is going on. He is in an unusual position because donald trump, unlike any president in modern times has basically kept quiet on many of the entanglements he has in the business world. That has put him in the unusual position of saying, mr. President elect, you should do this, and the president elect basically ignoring him. That has caused him to publicly say this is not a good thing and undermines the whole notion of the open skies, clean air we do in american politics, and that has gotten him in an awful lot of trouble with republicans. He has been vetting quite a lot of nominees, and because of the wealth of a lot of the nominees, it is taking a lot of time, but they compress the time to do it to the point where people are actually having confirmation hearings before they have been complet
It seems to be strange. Normally you would suspect season diplomats is who you would turn to if you wanted to deal with one of our most important of powerful adversaries. Instead, right now a lot of the china hands are not in place, and also mr. Trump has a different way of pursuing diplomacy, it seems. Right now, we have had bad blood between the u. S. And china. The president has said a lot of things that have upset china. In a back channel way, his daughter and her husband have been meeting with china test chinese officials. Her husband, jerod kushner, who is a Senior Advisor at the white house has been talking to the Chinese Ambassador, and there was a very public visit between him and his family to the Chinese Ambassador to celebrate chinese new year, and they even had ivankas daughter on line singing a song in mandarin, which was well received in china, as a way to offset the snub sense President Trump did not do a thank you as far as chinese new year. Carroll guilty. I watched i
It seems to be strange. Normally you would suspect season diplomats is who you would turn to if you wanted to deal with one of our most important of powerful adversaries. Instead, right now a lot of the china hands are not in place, and also mr. Trump has a different way of pursuing diplomacy, it seems. Right now, we have had bad blood between the u. S. And china. The president has said a lot of things that have upset china. In a back channel way, his daughter and her husband have been meeting with china test chinese officials. Her husband, jerod kushner, who is a Senior Advisor at the white house has been talking to the Chinese Ambassador, and there was a very public visit between him and his family to the Chinese Ambassador to celebrate chinese new year, and they even had ivankas daughter on line singing a song in mandarin, which was well received in china, as a way to offset the snub sense President Trump did not do a thank you as far as chinese new year. Carroll guilty. I watched i
Megan this is a story about an economist who ran into trouble with the authorities and 2012 because he did a study on inequality and found that was higher than economists had forecast and was visited by several members of the administration at the time. What he is trying to do is do this complicated survey of chinas wealth, and particularly chinas peoples wealth. Whether they have real estate, what their farms are like, what the agricultural productivity is like in order to generate wealth. In china, a huge swath of the country is agrarian and has not caught up with that development. Someone who has faced opposition in his past is looking at what we need to pare back and give the truth about. Oliver lets talk about the opening remarks section, President Trump has criticized or talked about dismantling geopolitical institutions. The United Nations is one he has criticized and whether or not it needs improvement. Megan this is a former reporter in liberia and it talks about an institutio