congress has shown no interest in defending that constitutional provision. if we can t test the constitution in the courts where can we test it? she wrote a brief for the case identifying specific examples of overseas business interests the president has that may be a violation of the emoluments clause. high on the list the trump ocean club in panama. she says the president continues to receive items of value in the form of infrastructure repairs and permits from the panamanian government. but that according to her is not the only problem. what if i tell you it s the first project he chose to do internationally? it is of concern to me because what it suggests is that this was a business operation seeking easy money, that often means illegal money, it means dealing with a government that
this man said the trump building could not have opened it s doors without the blessing of the president. did martinelli help get this building off the ground? sure. you can do this thing without the agreement. ricardo whom a u.s. diplomat droibed as having a limited attention span and making strong, impulsive decisions, had much in common with the future president of the united states. he also built himself an empire. he owned the largest chain of supermarkets. but money wasn t enough. he wanted power too which is why he decided to run for president. she is head of the branch of transparency international. she found many similarities with candidate trump. the lack of experience in
harming our national reputation? are we all now label the guilty by association? i spoke to one person whose been thinking about that a lot lately. i thought the american system was supposed to be designed differently. i we were not supposed to look like panama or the philippines or you name it. afghanistan or as bah january. sarah chayes learned about corruption the hard way living for a decade in afghanistan where she investigated and exposed dirty officials, a risky thing for an american woman to be doing. he is using his governmental power to protect that monopoly. reporter: now she s brought that experience back to the u.s. where she often provides expert testimony to congressional hearings. and now, a court case in which the president himself is a defendant. the president of the united states is receiving money, fees,
different licensing or management deals. take, for example, argentina where donald trump licensed his name for a 35 story trump tower. when the president of argentina called president trump to congratulate him on his win, local reports in argentina surfaced that president trump reportedly asked the president to help him get approvals for his project pushed through. those reports were denied by the arch teen president s office, the city also denied permit. in uruguay, trump has a licensing deal for a residential tower that s currently under construction. earlier this year, eric trump travelled to check on the building s progress. his trip cost tax payers close to $100,000 in hotel bills for the secret service. in canada, in toronto, trump struck a deal with a russian-born canadian billionaire to license his name, the russian billionaire used a russian state-run bank to finance the project. a bank under u.s. sanctions.
we also asked ivanka trump for comment, but her team referred us back to the statement. i believe this is the picture of you with president trump. yes, that s correct. that s mar-a-lago, yes. so you re meeting with him, you stop, pose for the photograph. yes. ventura didn t mind showing us old pictures as long as we didn t show what he looked like now. and your interaction with him is, good job, keep up the good work. keep selling. keep selling, that s it. how many units did you personally sell? i believe i sold about, between 350 to 400 units, you know, from the project. so that would be worth how much? over a little bit over 100 million. over $100 million. yes. when the trump organization goes into a licensing deal, when it sells it s name and brand on one side the trump organization is deeply involved. the family are involved. so they can be very hands-on. very, very interested when they want to be. when it comes to problems, like