Government and Foreign Governments. As you know, the state Department Also places a high priority on global womens empowerment, gender equity, combating violence against women. I was disturbed when there was a request from the Trump Transition Team to find out who the employees within the state been who havee worked on gender equity programs and while i know that has been walked back by that transition team, i think it sends a chilling message to people in the state department and the people concerned about efforts to empower women around the. Lobe can i ask whether you agree that we should continue that andiative to empower women what steps you would take to ensure that the state department continue to fund necessary programs to address global womens issues . This is an issue that has long been important to me personally as well. Ive seen firsthand the impact of empowering women, particularly empowering womens participation in Economic Activities in lesser developed part of the world.
Conclusions on what is only publicly available or publicly reported. None of this is classified, mr. Tillerson, these people are dead. Political opponents your question was people who are directly responsible for that. Im notdisputing these people are dead. Okay, were going to have more on the contentious hearing shortly. First to Connell Mcshane outside trump tower with donald trump vowed to separate himself from the empire hes built. Connell, hows he going to do it . Reporter you know, its interesting, trish, this was the original topic of the News Conference in december whether it was scheduled. When we knew to your point that russia would dominate and it did. But the question of separation from the business interest of mr. Trump was addressed. We used the word separate, isolation is what was used by mrtrumand his lawyer. Nobody is using the word divest. Hes not selling assets. Hes not Going Forward with a plan to divest from all the assets he has around the world with officials say
Lot of snow. Several feet has fallen over the past few days. Lets take you live to the south bay where there are flood rescue operations underway. The street looks more like a river. Our janine de la vega is in hollister. We will bring here in in just a moment. Lets go straight to Steve Paulson with the forecast. Were getting good news in the north bay. Theyre not getting the rain. Good. The Russian River will decrease and the napa river. It should go down. Good. Still rain towards the Santa Cruz Mountains that doesnt need more. Parts of the peninsula and east bay. It looks like the rain will be more towards the south bay and apartment cruise mountains tonight and tomorrow. A couple breaks in there. We will need a break. A serious side of a blizzard. Most of truckee and tahoe have been without power for 12 hours. Five to 7 feet reported. The blizzard warning continues until noon. The pictures coming out, echo summit, i saw caltrans district 3 shot. The snow is about this high. Well, yo
Clapper and others available to them, but that it was never discussed in the briefing. The briefing was all there is no place at trump tower to contain top secret documents. No documents were turned over. And intelligence officials say, and i will quote, intel and Law Enforcement officials agree that none of the investigations have found any conclusive or direct link between donald trump and the russian government, period. Hallie jackson is at the News Conference. We get a review of this News Conference already in tweets from president elect trump. Reporter we did. A bit of what you could say was a defeat storm this morning with donald trump strongly denying this, calling it fake news. Even at one point questioning whether we were living in nazi germany. We expect him here in the robby trump tower any minute. Into 30 seconds being a go, staffers came out to put manila envelopes on the table next to where he will be speak. Remember, this is miss First Press Conference as president elect
Pelley the Incoming Trump administration promised to build a wall between the president and his financial empire. Well, today a crack was discovered. While mr. Trump put his businesses into a trust run by his sons, it turns out he can get Cash Payments from that trust any time he wants, a potential conflict of interest. Anna werner is looking into this. Reporter want the buy a deluxe new york condo from the president of the United States . For 35 million its yours, a luxurious home owned by the donald j. Trump revokable trust. What about vacationing at a caribbean villa . You can rent it from another trump business for 42,000 a week. Or you can go west and get your own highend condo in the las vegas trump tower, operated by yet another trump entity. Cbs news has confirmed seven condos sold to buyers here for a total 2. 3 million since mr. Trump was elected president. Who benefits . Language in Donald Trumps trust, first reported by propublica, shows he can get money from these types of