White houses counsel. Hes a Legal Adviser to donald trump. Hes the former chairman at fcc and the thing that you need to know is hes someone thats getting money out of politics and hes someone with limited national experience. One of the important things about serving in that role and you are called that thats going to be the real challenge for mr. Mcgahn going forward. Of course, there is been a lot of question of potential Conflict Of Interest for the President Elect trump because of his vast business entanglement. The white House Counsel is going to neat to spend a lot of time digesting the President Elect
need to do when he gets into the white house, it is a rule thats going to be very important going for him. Donald trump is coming into the white house with unprecedented business ties. There is going to be questions about the Conflict Of Interest and don mcgahn will be the person will be giving donald trump of the advise of what he can and cannot do and how he should separate hims
Characteristics about Rex Tillerson that donald trump views at positives are things that have john mccain concerned. He said he wants answers about the connection to the russian government. I have concerned over his reports of relationships with Vladimir Putin who is a thug and a murderer. We will have hearings on that issue and other issues concerning him. That is the time to make up your mind. What kind of questions would you ask Rex Tillerson . His view of Vladimir Putin, his role in the world, and the leader of the opposition was murdered on the orders, i believe, of Vladimir Putin and the shadow of the kremlin. The deal that he did in 2011 is estimated to be worth half of a trillion dollars. So you know these are enormously large deals. A reflection of that that was putin in 2012 awarded him the order of friendship, one of the highest civilian honors in russia. Tillerson has also spoken out against sanctions in russia and that may be essential in understanding his tenure. Thats a
It quickly. Thanks very much. Good work. Thats it for me. Thanks very much for watching. Im wolf blitzer in the situation room. Erin burnett out front starts right now. Out front next, flipflopping on his plan to beat isis. What does trump really want to do . The fbi director saying we dont play games on the clinton investigation. The debut of the iphone 7 will customers turn a deaf ear to apples newest idea . Lets go out front. And good evening. Im erin burnett. Out front tonight, donald trump attacking Hillary Clinton in a major speech outlining his plan to Vamp Up Military Ships and trump charging that clinton is reckless and in his words,
totally unfit to be Commander In Chief. Sometimes, it seemed, like there wasnt a country in the middle east that Hillary Clinton didnt want to invade, intervene in or topple. Shes trigger happy and very unstable. Trump is speaking rather softly in his tone for him. He did read off a teleprompter declaring the United States is unprepared to face en
Likely the influence of the new Chief Of Staff here, Retired General john kelly who has been clear, trying to send a signal there is a new sheriff in town. That hes not going to tolerate discord and some of these tweets that are off message. But will we see this over the course of time . That remains to be seen. Weve had sort of the pockets of the president being very restrained when it comes to his messaging. I think when it comes to the relationship on capitol hill and this next battle that you talk about, the challenges, not only do you have republicans, conservatives like jeff flake speaking out, obviously hes been critical of candidate trump all the way back to the campaign trail, but republicans just dont seem that afraid of him. Thats why you have Lisa Murkowski saying im going to vote against you in the health care fight. How does he get republicans on board to get tax reform done . The reality may be that theyre looking at tax cuts, because they dont have that big, broad
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Sean spicer, would the president be okay with a package with a time line in which the tax cuts would be enacted and people would feel it in 2018 and not 2017. A bit of ambiguity. Heres spicer. Theres two issues. Fiscal year 17 and calendar year 17. For tax purposes, its calendar year 2017 that theyre probably most concerned with. The president as we work with congress will have those details to be able to flush out. Something that they have to work can congress on. President trump dropped news on this whole conversation just moments ago telling reuters in an interview, speaking about the border adjustment tax, which is a big question in this. The president said, and im quoting from reuters here, it could lead to a lot more jobs in the United States. As that article dropped, spicer talked up the merits of it
saying it benefits workers, americans and the economy. Nothing from the white house yesterday, but certainly it appears theyre starting to talk it up just a bit. Neil . Neil very in