Barack Obama says he will speak out if core US values threatened

“What I expect from world leaders is the same thing that I have said in a number of press conferences, which is the president-elect now has to put together a team”. The weekend after Trump won the presidential election, a group of Indian business executives arrived at Trump Tower and met with Trump and his children. To talk about this, we are joined by NPR’s Jim Zarroli. “Are where he goes and who he meets with in the best interests of the USA, or just expanding the Trump brand?” she asked. He said their conversation focused on Syria and Ukraine — two extremely volatile parts of the world that will likely remain so as Trump assumes control of the White House. And he has five buildings in India. His Indian business partners met with him last week in NY. It was a short meeting.

When all the votes were tallied on Election Day, it revealed that large swaths of this country enthusiastically voted into office a person who not only embodies reactionary politics but is now poised to enact them into law.

‘I’d assumed that you’d have to set up some type of trust or whatever and you don’t, ‘ Trump told the reporters and editors. That’s trickier than it might seem, given how much of Trump’s stated net worth is tied up in projects that leverage his name (as opposed to his owning properties, for example).

The real and potential conflicts of interest are legion.

As president, Trump is exempt from conflict-of-interest statutes. The Washington Post reported that “at least 111 Trump companies have done business in 18 countries and territories across South America, Asia and the Middle East” and also places such as Canada, Scotland and Ireland.

White House aides appeared despondent at times on the trip, particularly after Trump announced he would nominate Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions for attorney general, Representative Mike Pompeo of Kansas for Central Intelligence Agency director, and retired Lieutenant General Michael Flynn as national security adviser. Do you agree with them?

Meanwhile, Trump continued to confer privately at his Bedminster golf club with a dozen visitors amid furious speculation about whom he might appoint to such critical jobs as heading the State and Defense departments. It warned that Trump would otherwise be questioned about his motives during debates over issues like tax reform and Wall Street regulation.

According to him, if those issues were that simple, they would have been done by previous presidents before Trump was even elected.

MCEVERS: Trump has said that he won’t be involved in his businesses.

The three grown children – their mother is Ivana Trump, Trump’s first wife – delivered well-received speeches at this summer’s Republican National Convention in which they tried to humanize their father. Does that – do you think that will work? For instance, actually today, there was a story.

It is our duty to demand ethical integrity from our presidents, and Donald Trump can not be allowed to make himself an exception.

Now, the president of Argentina’s spokesmen came out right away, denied this, said it was absolutely untrue. “We’d make sure the briefing books were in order and out we go”.

The problem is there really aren’t a lot of laws in this subject.

US presidents and vice presidents are exempt from a law that bars executive branch employees from engaging in government activities in which they or their families have a financial stake. Was the same benefit of the doubt ever extended to President Obama?