International business entanglements, these concerns are getting bigger not smaller with each passing day in the news as we get closer to him being sworn in. Because this stuff keeps coming up, when it comes up, the more you look at it, the worse it is. For example, we now know that the daughter of the President Elect, she apparently got a Big Business Deal Greenlighted by a governmentcontrolled bank in japan right after that bizarre and otherwise inexplicable spectacle where the President Elect invited his daughter to sit in on his inperson meeting with the japanese Prime Minister. If that deal in fact only got greenlit because of the new political position of the trump family, well, then that action by that governmentcontrolled bank in japan, thats pretty clearly a Foreign Governments gift to the president s family. Thats just one. With each passing day theres another one of these now. They are getting bigger and worse over time. Those things by trumps business . If the Family Busine
all in the transition? no, he s not. and i said this morning that his son had no involvement in the transition, but i ve talked to general flynn, and his son was helping him a bit with scheduling and administrative items. but that s no longer the case. look, all of our families want to be helpful. you re downplaying his role, but you must be aware that the transition team put in for security clearance for michael g. flynn, the son of lieutenant general flynn. well, i m aware in talking to general flynn that his son was helping with scheduling, jake. no, but you put in for security clearance for him. he was helping his dad, arrange for meetings and provide meetings. but that s no longer the case. do you need security clearance for scheduling? i think that s the appropriate decision for us to move forward. i m afraid i didn t get an answer. were you aware that the transition had put in for a security clearance for michael flynn jr.? i worked very closely with general fl
to be utterly implausible or just flat-out false. what s the level of concern within your national security apparatus about general flynn s son? well, general flynn s son has no involvement in the transition whatsoever. he has a transition e-mail. well, general, he has no involvement in the transition whatsoever. not at all? general flynn is a very good member of our team. so you re running the transition, right? i am. i m chairing it. so you were saying as the head of the transition that flynn s son is not involved at all in the transition? no, he s not. and i said this morning that his son had no involvement in the transition, but i ve talked to general flynn, and his son was helping him a bit with scheduling and administrative items. but that s no longer the case. look, all of our families want to be helpful. you re downplaying his role, but you must be aware that the transition team put in for
mad dog plays no games. reporter: touting his credentials as a four-star general, nato commander and his leadership during desert storm. as long as the senate votes to consent. reporter: all this coming on the heels of a shakeup in the trump transition team. firing the son of retired lieutenant general michael flynn for pushing a baseilous conspiracy theory that led a man to fire a rifle inside a washington pizza shop. jake tapper grilling the vice president elect over security requests for flynn s son. you must be aware that the transition team put in for security clearance for general flynn s son? i m aware that his son was helping the scheduling, jake. but you put in for security clearance for him? helping his dad arrange for meetings and provide meetings. but that is no longer the case.
president-elect deflect jake tapper s questions about that. you must be aware that the transition team put in for security clearance for michael g. flynn, the son of general flynn? well, i m aware in talking to general flynn that his son was helping with the scheduling. yeah, but you put in for security for him. he was helping his dad for meetings. i think that s the appropriate thing to move forward, to avoid any further distraction. and tapper asked pence several more times about the security request for general flynn s son. each time pence refused to acknowledge the request was even made. the current president of the united states barack obama is checking off an important box on this to-do list, giving his national security request, speaking to drips at macdill air force base in florida. the white house said the speech was planned before donald trump won last month. and that the address wasn t meant as a message for the