that you think about these things strategically in addition to legally. do you see this as the most direct legal remedy for the kinds of conflicts of interest that we ve aed, even that you just described tonight in terms of hotels in taipei? is this is this the best way at it in terms of trying to remedy that conflict? well, i think impeachment is, of course, the most direct. in terms of private remedies, this is about all there is. but we are a litigious society. it would not be surprising to see lots of companies and individuals deciding to go after the trump enterprise, and it s a family enterprise. the only way to solve the problem for him would be to divest the whole family of these holdings, not just to say i won t play a role in in managing it day to day, but basically just as throughout history people have greased the
you believe it s very close in north carolina and florida and some of the other key battleground states. which raises the question. why is he coming to washington tomorrow for the official opening, the launch? he was here a month ago for the soft opening of his new hotel. he is coming back tomorrow to washington, with 13 days to go, spending time in washington, d.c., promoting his new hotel. well, it does show the success of the trump enterprise, his private sector successes. and i think that s another good way to differentiate with hillary. as we ve said before, the only job she ever created was for her daughter chelsea working for the foundation. to zip in and zip out, to take an hour, obviously donald trump hits many cities every day. it does remind america he has a successful enterprise, something hillary has tried to suggest otherwise. and it is a big accomplishment in d.c. so that s a scheduling issue. he decided to prioritize. i have no problem with that. as we have said, you
president. the bottom line is, when there s a history of crisis management inside of a business like there was in the trump enterprise. there was all sorts of crisis management going on. settlements all the time involving businesses, financial transactions and personal relationships. those predate any campaign. the allegations here are from 2006. the notion that this is somehow related to the campaign requires an unbelievable stretch of prosecutable authority. chris: let s get to the central case which is the special counsel s investigation of donald trump. in terms of collusion, in terms of possible obstruction of justice. this week, a federal judge in alexandria, virginia raised questions about whether the special counsel s case specifically against paul manafort, outside the special counsel s mandate. federal judge - - told
but as i understand excuse me one second. he s going to hire an ethics officer, and i can assure you that in my job of treasury secretary, whatever responsibilities i have to monitor these issues, which are very important, i can assure you that i will do. what you didn t answer and we ll follow up with some questions, how do you determine, make sure there isn t a break given to a trump enterprise, which would violate our constitution? i understand it s complying with the law but the constitution is the supreme law of the land. well, as you know, i ve employed lots of lawyers, but i m not a lawyer. but the good news is, we have a big group of lawyers in the treasury department and in a big ethics group and i can assure you that we ll make sure that we absolutely follow the law and the constitution and i have every reason to believe that the president-elect absolutely wants to adhere to it and will do so. senator brown? thank you, mr. chairman.
and have your respect that i would do that 100%. i thank you for that. i want to follow up on the second point of senator wyden which really has me concerned, and that is that you pointed out that you would treat in your international roles an american company that s deal with foreign markets equally, even if it s a trump enterprise entity. you are taking an oath to defend the constitution of the united states, and the constitution of the united states, there s the clause and you have to make sure that if you are deal with a trump entity that it s not getting a favor in exchange for trying to influence the president of the united states and the trump administration. so how do you go about knowing that there s no special breaks being given to a trump enterprise if you don t have full access to that type of information? well, senator, let me first say, and i think we all acknowledge this, whichever side we re on, that we are in a