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Trump s secretary of state pick exxonmobil ceo rex tillerson possibly lying under oath at his confirmation hearing about exxonmobil lobbying against russian sanctions and an impassioned and unprecedented plea from a sitting senator, cory booker, to reject trump s attorney general nominee senator jeff sessions over his record on civil rights. but we begin with the story we believe to be most important at this pivotal moment and what this day with as about. the nearly incomprehensible set of conflicts of interest that result from refusing to relinquish ownership of a multibillion dollar organizations that is engaged with businesses and countries around the world, the full scope of which we still don t know. that s because trump refuses to release his tax returns. well, i m not showing tax returns, as you know, they re under audit. reporter: every president since the 70s has had an irs. i ve never heard that. you know, the only ones who care about my tax returns are the ....
Today for the first time. trump s response to the election hacks, the claims of ties between his inner circle and the kremlin and his general stance towards russia all make up at this point the single most controversial aspect of the president-elect s foreign policy. so it was fitting that today while trump was giving his press conference, his nominee for secretary of state, rex tillerson, was testifying in his first confirmation hearing on capitol hill. tillerson has had extensive contact with the russian government as the ceo of exxonmobil, even winning russia s order of friendship award in 2013 after making a half trillion deal with the government-owned oil company. asked about russia s role in the election, he sounded a somewhat different note than his would be boss. do you believe during the 2016 presidential campaign russia intelligence services directed a campaign of active measures involving the hacking of e-mails, the strategic leak of these e-mails, the use of internet trolls ....
I found potent about that is describe this specific thing that happened during the election, you see it all the time, in your facebook feed, denzel washington endorses donald trump. that s just not a true thing and the people that wrote that know it s not true. it s not even that important, frankly, but not true. he even tweeted i put out a movie against him called trumpland just before the election and he tweets thank you, michael moore, for putting out trumpland. and it s like i thought at the time he sees his name in the title. it s to a narcissist it s always a great thing to see you name. to be mentioned, yeah. but it s just but we re through the looking glass. he has appropriated this term to say it s a judo move where it s it s fake news. this was genius today. he pulled it off now we ll see if the press decides to back down or come back at him. and stay on the conflict story. and stay on the fact that he is a founder of fake news and that s and whe ....
Certain that senator sessions, if he is confirmed, will be taking a very different tack on policing reform. i do not expect pattern and practice investigations, i do not expect consent decree. i hope he will continue work of the cops office that works on retraining police departments but that remains to be seen. i was not encouraged by what i heard from his lips yesterday and what i heard today. as you know, local practices like in ferguson, it was the department of justice that discovered this kind of pyramid scheme that ferguson was running, it was department of justice that discovered unconstitutional policing in baltimore and we need to department of justice to be engaged in that activity. those patterns and practices report which is you can find on line are remarkable reading produced by that same department that the senator would be running, sherrilyn ifill, thank you for your time. thank you, chris. up next, nine days away from his inauguration, president-elect donald trum ....
White house ethics lawyer under president obama and richard painter who served in the same role under president george w. bush. gentlemen, let me start norm, i ll start with you. if you re grading the plan, if you can call it that propose today in terms of insulating the president-elect from conflicts of interest? chris, thanks for having me. yesterday professor painter, the bush ethics adviser, myself, and make s most distinguished constitutional lawyer, larry tribe, issued a five-part set of five criteria. we did it before the press conference so there could be no question that the clarity that this was not pre-arranged. in all five spaces on that report card donald trump gotten a f today. maybe a d+ in one area. ....