documents that i ve signed turning over complete and total control. president-elect trump directed me and my colleagues to design a structure that would completely isolate him from the management of the company. it was simple. donald trump would hand over control of the family business to his two eldest sons. this is a carnival show. they ve setup a stage with folders that they re not opening that purport to contain disclosures about all of his assets. we have no clue what was in those folders. were they blank pages? were they take out menus? were they his taxes? but we do know that donald trump saw handing over management to his sons as a voluntary decision. no conflict of interest provision as president, so i could actually run my business. i could actually run my business and run government at the same
through a chinese government controlled bank is paying the president of the united states about $2 million a year. that s never happened before. donald trump has made no effort to disclose his leases with china and other foreign nations, which makes it hard for the public to even evaluate which foreign governments could be attempting to curry favor. the fast have marty precede his election, but they also own properties where donald trump seems to be the draw. but who exactly is getting access? next stop, palm beach, florida. a limu emu & doug
the office floors and 39 stories of luxury condos above. that s always been the case even before he was president. they re not being transparent about who is doing business here. donald trump s potential conflict of interests begin with his clients and tenants. dan alexander and his team have been piecing that information together. it s a business with a lot of tentacles. and everywhere you look you find conflicts. how do you do it? how do you figure out with donald trump has conflicts of interest that strike at the heart of american democracy. donald trump has to list, hey, i own this skyscraper. but he doesn t have to say anything about how the actual business works. what we get to do is say, okay, let s go over that skyscraper and let s figure out who is inside the building. let s call up all those companies and figure out how much they re paying. so i had to literally boot over
emirates were going to invade qatar. courtney was in the region a few months after the blockade started. where are you? we re in bahrain right now. we were in qatar for a couple of days. the u.s. has the largest air base in the area and it s sitting right there in qatar. that would be a huge deal for the united states to have an invasion of qatar when we have a massive military site there. it could have very serious implications for the u.s. military and their operations here. within hours of the crisis then secretary of state rex tillerson tried to de-escalate the standoff between these u.s. allies. we certainly would encourage the parties to sit down together and address these differences. tillerson s effort was undercut by president trump who made it clear that he was siding with the saudis over the qatari government. the nation of qatar,
business, which ultimately will benefit the president. since his inauguration until july 2019 president trump has spent 99 days here. for many, this 20-acre estate with its lavish decor and nearly 500 paying members is a symbol of the potential conflicts of interest that plague the trump presidency. and that is why we are here. this is place where it costs hundreds of thousands of dollars to be a member, and the price went up after he was elected president. it s funny to think about this is kind of donald trump s backyard in florida. we want to know if and how donald trump is actually profiting off of being president of the united states. mar-a-lago is just one example. the trump family business has dozens of properties across the u.s. and around the world. office towers, golf courses and hotels. they all pose potentially serious conflicts of interests