his financial history has not been reviewed by the ethics office, but also getting some sense of his understanding of the world. obviously as executive at ek exxonmobil with the reach that they ve had across the globe, they ll have a good understanding of the a lot of the geopolitical concerns that an oil company would have to be aware of, but if they try to drill him down on vars aspects of the trump administration s policies on russia, of course, and other parts of the world, there he may get tripped up. he needs to explain what is his relationship with vlad peer putin and what will it be should he become the nation s top diplomat? a lot of senators say he has done a good job in private off the record meetings, one-on-one meetings, but we ll see how he does in an open session. he has been nominated to become
totally disagree, for example, climate change? climate change, we hope he will walk back some of the things he said. as long as you doesn t privatize some of the roads and in terms of trade policies, i mean, that is something that they have spoken about and certainly the people that voted for president-elect trump agreed with bernie on trade issues and a number of the people that voted for him. what better way? you put the people first, not the profits, and not politics. you put the people first, and you work together where you can, and you fight for the people when you think that he is wrong. president obama will give a fair well speech. senior obama administration official describing the speech this way. i m quoting now. saying this will not be a
the defense secretary. there s a couple of interesting things about mattis. on the one hand, mattis faces a higher bar because he does need the waiver because he is has recently been a general in order to serve as secretary, and so democrats if they wanted to would have a little bit more power to potentially keep him out if they wanted to. on the other hand, mattis has a lot of democratic friends. he is one of the better liked nominees on the entire slate of people that trump has nominated among democrats. he has add viedsed policy makers and is seen as a potential stabilizing force within the trurp administration. i totally agree with you. if you look at the eight nominees that senator schumer, the democratic leader put out that they were going to potentially slow walk mattis was not on that list, and that was not an accident. the fact of the matter is for
two sons or bringing in a trustee? quite complicated. trump know where is the investments are, what the plans are, the holdups with various local permitting authorities all around the world. so the idea that he could sort of hand it off to his sons and avoid conflicts of interest, what we care about is if foreign companies or governments will use trurp s properties to influence his decisionmaking. if he knows how those are going, it s still a problem. john, a lot of ethics experts have said that they are concerned these moves may not go far enough. he does seem like it is what it is. the broad outlines, the arrangement. it doesn t seem like they have changed all that much over the course of the last month or so. let s see when we finally here and what we assume will be january 11th, the day after president obama s farewell address. maybe they chose it to try to turn the page and keep attention off the incumbent and turn it to the president-elect. but you re right, if they re addi
thanks very much. john king is back. and david, when i spoke to kellyanne conway she said trump would have the press conference when the lawyers and compliance officers feel they re ready. how complicated is it if he s handing over the reins to his two sons or bringing in a trustee? quite complicated. trump know where is the investments are, what the plans are, the holdups with various local permitting authorities all around the world. so the idea that he could sort of hand it off to his sons and avoid conflicts of interest, what we care about is if foreign companies or governments will use trurp s properties to influence his decisionmaking. if he knows how those are going, it s still a problem. john, a lot of ethics experts have said that they are concerned these moves may not go far enough.