the face. he will become both tenant and landlord of this federal property, leased by the gsa to the trump organization for $180 million. this was the gsa and that was one of the most heavily bid projects ever in the history of gsa. but trump s claim might be short lived. federal contracting laws specifically prohibit awarding a government contract to a government employee. imagine for a moment a gsa employee having to negotiate the annual red escalation with a family member of the president of the united states. this is incomprehensible. trump has said he ll hand the reigns of all his companies over to his adult children during the presidency. but he can t just sign away the hotel. the sixty year lease now puts him in a quandary. it states, no elected official
interest is to sell the company, put it in a blind trust. the kids live off the interest. they are great at what they do. i imagine you put the odds of the that happening at zero? i read a story said that even doing that in itself would be unbelievable difficult. donald trump when he ran for this in the first debate he brought up exactly what he would do and how he would do it. he s been crystal clear how the process would work since he announced he was running for presidency. that his kids would take over the companies. they would run it. and everyone who came out were well aware of how this process would work. he s going to continue to abide by all the proper regulations. i think frankly this is a narrative that s been well explored. he s been very open about it. we re focused right now on getting good people, some of the most high caliber quality people
transparent. he s asking for security clearance to. somehow imply you know what his job and that he s going to be advising on national security issues is complete speculation. we don t know his role yet. what we do know is donald trump trusts his advice and he wants to be able have to have conversations with him. that is something liberals were very concerned about. he obviously is looking at people and taking advice. this is a huge over reaction to someone and we re a week and one day after election. everybody needs to chill out on this. trump famously said huma abedin shouldn t have access to classified information because as the wife of anthony weiner would go home and tell him state secrets. he said this. it s on tape he s married to ivanka trump. supposedly how do you square that circle. you are not goings to be able
dump the trump name. literally. reporter: his name may be on everyone s lips. donald trump, donald trump. donald trump. donald trump. reporter: but it is no longer on three manhattan apartment buildings. off they came. letter by gold letter. silver letters too. how do you spell relief. linda gottleib lives at the former trump place. she started the dump the trump name petition because she considers the president elect to be a racist and a misogyny. who wants to live in a label like that. every time you come home and see it. reporter: the petition got almost 700 signatures. we didn t want to live in the trump building but got we got a really good deal and you don t want to.
the group clinton worked for in the 1970s, is honoring her for her lifelong work on children s issues. we ll have more as that continues tonight. but at this hour thousands of students from coast to coast have been walking out of class to protest trump s immigration proposals. this coming as mayors from some of the biggest cities in the country are now joining forces to take on donald trump on one specific issue. can they do it. nick valencia is outfront. for millioning s of undocume immigrants a donald trump presidency is a new reality. well enforce all of our immigration laws. and the fear of nasmass deportations has mayors taking a stand against donald trump. new york believes in liberty. we stand behind lady liberty