philippine envoy is double headed private public the president united states is double had a private public that means every interaction between the two you don't know where public service stops and private interest begins. although the trump organization vowed not to pursue new foreign ventures while trump is in office. there's wide overlap between his business interests and the international relationships he must navigate as president. a chinese government owned bank runs a twentieth floor of trump tower in new york city at a trump property adjacent to the un saudi arabia and india own apartments. the new unit there is this year. from post foreign dignitaries at mar-a lago his private club where membership rates doubled after his election his companies have been granted approval for trademarks in china even as the president negotiated trade policy with its leader so far i have got nothing absolutely nothing but the potential conflicts of interest are many and they've raised charges that trump is

violating the us constitution in the news that the charges are laid out in several lawsuits one of which is now focused on the trumpeted national we decided to file a lawsuit because it was a violation of this country's oldest anti-corruption law and that is the emoluments clauses both foreign and domestic. we would like a federal court to order to present a united states to cease violating the emoluments clauses and that would i think mean at the present a united states would be ordered to divest in a clear and transparent way from his businesses. seeing is the attorney general of the district of columbia the democrat and with his counterpart in the state of maryland he's suing the president and frankly we saw it as our obligation particularly given the fact that in the case of the district of columbia he's violating the law five blocks down the street. how do you prove that the president

being influenced by people patronizing his hotel how do you prove corruption it's a great question and that is why the founding fathers made a very clear rule and that is that the president or a federal office holder should not receive anything of value from foreign countries or even domestic states if trump divested from his businesses do you think he would behave any differently well i it's very important that the law doesn't require proof of actual influence on the part of president trump it's enough that he's receiving these perks from foreign governments and from the domestic states what's at stake here with the lawsuit the very essence of democracy having an elected president united states whose obligation it is to represent the interest of all americans in the country not to be sidetracked diverted or have another powerful interest the power of money. the justice department is defending the president and

has argued for the case to be dismissed. they say the term emolument refers to profits trump and received only in his role as president not in private market transactions. but in july a u.s. district judge rejected this argument allowing the case to move forward. it was the first time a federal court has interpreted the moments clauses in his opinion the judge cited the research of constitutional law scholar john. so we tried to find every available english language dictionary definition of them all human that exists and during the time frame that we studied about a couple hundred year period we found forty forty this is the earliest one and it defines them all human as simply profit or game playing. it's the most profit

governed by labor and cost so this is the kind of definition that the president's lawyers have seized upon and said look this is a little bit different because it's as profit gotten by labor and cost maybe we can read something into that as a kind of a restriction. on the confound that most definitions of them all humans from the era of the constitution was written supports an interpretation that includes the kinds of profits the president is making it is otoh i would add another thing about the text of the form or humans cause it's an mistake about how sweeping and comprehensive the founders and the founding generation understood this clause to be no person holding any office of profit or trust shell except any. present emolument office or title of any kind whatever from any. king prince or foreign state and so one of the biggest problems for the president is that the text of the constitution is on its face so sweeping in its prohibition of the receipt of

for pneumonia so if the term argument is so keen why is it so obscure why is this the first time the courts have taken it up we have never had a president who is so brazenly is treating the oval office in the presidency as an opportunity to make money at least that's the appearance. to dispel concerns that the president could be influenced by foreign money the trump organization has written a check to the u.s. treasury for the profits they say they made from foreign governments in two thousand and seventeen about one hundred fifty one thousand dollars. but president trump has refused to make his tax returns public and without them it's impossible to know whether he's profiting from his office or not with the republican controlled congress unwilling to force him to disclose them the perception persists it's shocking we have norms against corruption but we also have norms against appearance of corruption and the idea is look we're going to be over inclusive here

we don't even want to get near the area where we think a government official might be exploiting his or her office for private gain so appearance of corruption is a very important. it's easy to see trump is unprecedented a break from the past but since the one nine hundred eighty s. growing sums of money of flooded politics shipping many american sense that the entire system is corrupt. trumped capitalized on the feeling to get to power as he reminded republican politicians last spring but they had this expression drain the swamp. and i hated it and i thought it was so hokey i said that is the hokies give me a break i'm embarrassed. and i was in florida with twenty five thousand people going wild. and i said we will drain the swamp the place went crazy in washington someone running for office often takes campaign contributions from say

the pharmaceutical lobby or the gun lobby which are funded by manufacturers of those products they very often support legislation to support those corporations how is that not in the heart of corruption why is the president doing something different it's a fair question and part of my answer would be that may well be corruption to i personally think that there's quite a lot of corruption in our political system right now at every level and so it's an important issue to address the difference however in this as it bears on these lawsuits is that that's not a constitutional violation we will drain the swamp. and every time i said it i got the biggest applause and. after four or five times i said boy what a great expression i love so. i would call him yes unprecedented at least in living memory but not an aberration in the sense that he's just completely isolated out there in the middle of nowhere i would call him something

closer to an up hockey osis of a trend that's been developing in developing and developing and he's just kind of brought it out of the closet and the department of justice has asked the judge to freeze proceedings as they peel his decision to hear the moments lawsuit in the end the case may be decided by a higher court. but the attorney general of d.c. is pressing forward we want to know exactly where the money is coming from that's going into the trump hotel we want to know for example how many foreign governments have paid for rooms dinners parking and other items of sale at the hotel we also need to establish of course that the present united states himself has received those moneys will be also seeking the president's tax returns ultimately i think that that question's going to be answered by judge trump's polarizing presidency maybe helping his d.c. hotel thrive but elsewhere it's taking

a toll on his financial disclosure reports provide clues a number of his properties so the revenue fall in two thousand and seventeen at a hotel in soho his name has been removed from the building management deals in toronto and panama have also collapsed those are all indicative of the fact that there are a lot of people who don't like donald trump so to the extent that he's able to promote his businesses and make money off them he's going to do that but it's not going to work as a strategy everywhere. if the democrats prevail in the embers mid-term elections and take back congress they'll be able to investigate whether the president's profiting from his office trump has been holding rallies across the country to support republican candidates and it's come here to west virginia. it's a state trump won in two thousand and sixteen and his supporters far number his critics they don't care about his conflicts of interest. i think people in general feel more competent in him and so businesses around all that picked up

because they feel right what about trump himself he hasn't divested from his business some people accuse him of profiting from the presidency what do you say to those critics i mean if i hear the businessman but he also understands what the issues of the. no one who spoke to at this rally seemed worried by the possibility that the president's business dealings may well have put them on a collision course with the constitution. of the world my name is lara trump and i am so proud to introduce myself as the daughter in law of alberta president donald j. h. out of the was right there haters in hollywood despite the obstructionist democrats despite the fake news media it was no tribe is draining the swamp in washington d.c.

ladies and gentlemen of the live a lot of people voted for a wrecking ball they voted for someone who would blow up the system in fact in the guise of voting for any corruption candidate what you got was a pretty extreme candidate and that happens all the time when people vote you know when they go to extremes. he has developed a cult of people who really believe that he is their savior he's not he is there in the me he has no regard for anyone else including his own family but he has persuaded a whole lot of people who feel powerless voiceless and have been damaged by the policies that began with ronald reagan in one thousand and one. indeed the charges that the president of the united states is profiting from his office even if proven in a court of law seems unlikely to go down as the most scandalous legacy of trump's presidency

we've eliminated a record number of job killing regulations and republicans it passed the biggest tax cuts and reform a little this was really a massive socialist redistribution program to take from the many and give to the already rich the estimates run the big. tween sixty and eighty percent of the individual income tax savings will go to people in the top one percent that's basically people make over six hundred thousand dollars a year and most of that will go to the one thousand american families who make over two million dollars. by slashing tax rates for corporations the republican tax plan is forecast to increase the national deficit by least one trillion dollars in the next decade weakening access to health care and the social safety net that americans rely on in times of crisis. with the smart ones remember i say it all the time you hear the elite they're not only warily you're smarter than they are

more money than they are have better jobs than they do. you know the elite so let them have the word elite you know the super elite that's what i always say i always hate when they say well the elite decided not to go to something i'm doing. is it well i have a lot more money than they do. i have. a much better education than that i'm smarter than they. i have many much more beautiful homes than they do. i have a better a part of it at the top of fifth avenue. why the hell are they the elite tell me. the justice department declined to speak with phone lines for this report the white house and the trump organization did not respond to interview questions. critics

warn that by blurring the line between public interest and personal gain the trump presidency risks eroding norms of democratic governance with consequences that appear to be told as a lot of discussion now you know can it happen here and fascism arise here. doggery of one kind or another arise here could we have a return to overtly racist and exclusionary policies that we thought were long gone and can we return to an earlier era where politicians were overtly corrupt they didn't even seem to think that it was an embarrassing thing. and that's very very corrosive. and together. we will make america wealthy again that's happened as happening a lot faster than the fake news ever said it could happen.

i did one that says guilty are let me. fix that real quick. so why did you choose to write that given that trump has been convicted and. i think it's just a matter of time. reveal some who's got all this power he's never admitted really is wrong. for that reason i think we're in a pickle. us citizens obstructed from saving their families as the crisis in yemen worsens some have fled the horror of war only to be entangled in bureaucratic limbo with their lives and dreams of a future with on the. phone lines explores the old to the real

effects of trumps immigration policies. between warring on the back on a just. after a three year delay afghanistan is finally preparing to hold parliamentary elections told by constant violence and continually influenced by foreign powers many afghans are hoping for a real change what direction will the country take for give you an in-depth coverage of the afghanistan elections i'll just era. pressure increases on saudi arabia to reveal what happened to the missing journalists. more than forty members of the u.s. congress are now demanding sanctions.

coming up from disappearance government figures from the u.s. . withdrawals from. new pictures emerge of a bodyguard of the saudi crown prince around the time. to disrupt. donald trump for the first time publicly acknowledged that saudi journalist. is likely to be dead the u.s. president said he's waiting for the investigation to be completed before deciding his next course of action well just hours earlier he got a briefing from his secretary of state who just got back from saudi arabia and turkey might bump aoe said the saudis have been told that washington is taking the

matter very seriously she was last seen entering the saudi consulate in istanbul on october the second an eleven minute audio recording from inside the building has been leaked to turkish media it reportedly suggests he was attacked and killed inside the consulate were saudi crown prince mohammed bin has denied any knowledge of what happened but al jazeera has learned that one of his bodyguards led the operation which involves fifteen men and more political and business leaders are now distancing themselves from saudi arabia the u.s. treasury secretary the finance ministers of france the u.k. and the netherlands are the latest to pull out. but a major investment conference later this month alan fischer reports from washington d.c. . he's been briefed by his secretary of state and the furious intelligence reports leaves donald trump to believe jamal khashoggi is dead it certainly looks that way to me it's very sad general election he says he'll wait for the results of various investigations but if the evidence is there there will be consequences for saudi

arabia well it'll have to be very severe i mean it's a bad bad stuff but we'll see what happens mike pompeo arrived back from his trip to saudi arabia and turkey and met with the president first thing on thursday he says both sides promised fuel transparent investigation they also assured me that they will conduct a complete thorough. investigation of all of the facts surrounding mr to show that they will do so at a timely fashion and that this report itself will be transparent u.s. treasury secretary steve mission was also in that meeting whatever he had you know shortly after he would know not to be attending an important international investment conference in riyadh later this month joining a growing international boycott campaigning in colorado vice president mike pence insisted they will wait for the results of the study investigation but the president knows he might have to take firm action when we have that information and

we won't soley rely on that information we'll collect all the evidence and then the president have a decision to make about what the proper course of action is for us going forward but the world deserves answers in washington d.c. jamal khashoggi was the main topic is middle east experts gather to discuss the implications of his disappearance for relations with the u.s. this points on the table all those issues that the west has opted to leave nor for decades and not just in saudi arabia but across the region and so you wonder if this is the beginning of a turning point. the washington post this published an opinion piece prophetically written by jamal khashoggi and sent by his assistant the day after his disappearance he criticizes the lack of international response to the abuse of journalists in arab countries like saudi arabia and egypt was reminding the u.s. they cannot turn their back on this incident the matter how strong the historic ties or economic relationship alan fischer al-jazeera washington for more than

forty members of the u.s. congress of call for sanctions against saudi arabia over jamal khashoggi case in a letter addressed to president trump they say we are deeply concerned by your remarks suggesting that money is more important than justice and other vital american values we're strong comprehensive sanctions we also overdue suspension of u.s. involvement in yemen well child stratford is outside the saudi consulate in istanbul but first let's talk to mike hanna who is live for us in washington d.c. mark said donald trump is not knowledge ing for the first time that may be dead are we starting to see perhaps a shift in the president's position. well it does appear to be a significant shift mission from the president having spent to days since the crisis parent lee trying to deny to an extent what exactly had happened and making very clear from the beginning he was not interested in introducing economic

sanctions against saudi arabia arguing that that would do more damage to the u.s. than to saudi arabia itself but what was probably most significant in the course of the day was that the treasury secretary steve minu chin was present and part of that meeting with mike from pale in the president and it was after that meeting that the new chin announced that he was no longer going to go to riyadh now this is the first tangible sign of u.s. disapproval of saudi arabia from the trumpet ministration whether it was something that was said or reported during that meeting steve has been preparing for days saying that he would make for more details before taking a decision now that decision is taken and a clear sign of u.s. disprove disapproval from the set ministration for the first time since the crisis began there and and mike u.s. lawmakers have been putting growing pressure on president trump to take strong action against saudi arabia so what are sanctions really possible.

what's happened now is that a number of members of the house of representatives some republicans as well it's a bipartisan letter sent this letter to president trump urging of an immediate investigation and urging sanctions to be introduced as soon as possible should saudi arabia be held accountable this follows a letter from the senate which was a formal letter and which actually put into effect the making ski at which gives the president three months basically to decide whether sanctions should be imposed and what those sanctions should be now the nature of those sanctions well both the senate and the house of representatives are indicating they want severe economic sanctions imposed president trump has expressed reluctance about this but in the end it's up to the president himself what sanctions are going to be imposed whether sanctions are going to be imposed whether they are economical whether they are some other form of boycott so while though he may take some advice from the house he may

take some advice from the senate in the end the decision is going to be his and his alone baron my kind of there in washington d.c. mike thank you for that let's cross over now to charles stratford he is live in istanbul charlie's reports that turkish investigators have been widening the search area just bring us up to date with the latest john. that's right these lines started to drop yesterday. the police investigation is now begun to search areas outside of is stamboul one area an area called the belgrade forest. we understand that's around about an hour's drive from here it's a vast area of woodland close to the black sea another area that is being concentrated all we understand is. yellow now this area comprises of a large area of farmland we do we have reports that

a farm house may have been the focus of this investigation as well that area is at least two hours drive from istanbul so we may well be getting more drips of information from the government in the hours ahead today as we believe that search in those areas continues it's not also forget that as a result so we're told by government sources all of this she's here at the consulate and the consul general we were told by government sources that there had been solved pools found in the consul general home that matched samples found in the culture that we're unsure as to exactly what those saw bills but they will of course one can imagine be increasing attention on the analysis of these as well but . as we've been reporting that the hunt for this body goes on and certainly

analysts are telling us that it is going to be increasingly it's going to be difficult to get some sort of murder indictment without. the body being found but these searches as i say in these areas outside of stamboul suggests that all endeavors are being made to find that body and johnny what about this of course yeah what more details on the about the fifteen suspects implicated in the disappearance. well a lot of attention is being paid on as you say these fifteen suspects four of which at least four of which we understand are members of the saudi royal guard in particular a great focus on the man that is being reported as having to lead this alleged operation made her look trip there was c.c.t.v. footage still photographs released yesterday showing a trip here at the consulate or at nine fifty five in the morning on the day that

crucial as he disappeared and then another photograph showing him leaving the consulate a few hours later another photograph showing him and other members of this fifteen men team at the movenpick hotel and then literally what are we looking at it was forty five minutes after that photograph was taken at the hotel them at the airport seeming really leaving. some very strong evidence obviously implicating this man and this wider group in this alleged crime we also know that six of those fifteen men certainly according to government sources say that fingerprints were found all of them in the sea blog of the consulate fingerprints including those all of this autopsy experts. yeah the focus on these fifteen men will be intensifying

as the was as we go forward today charles thank you. well aside from the u.s. treasury secretary and many other big names of pulled out of saudi arabia's major investment conference next week dubbed davos in the desert among them the top e.u. politicians they include the french and dutch finance ministers and the british trade secretary the international monetary fund's christine lagarde is also out as are the c.e.o.'s of j.p. morgan chase and the blackstone group that's a u.s. based financial services company and media partners have also withdrawn including c.n.n. c. and b. c. the financial times the new york times and the los angeles times from san suspended political visits to saudi arabia other e.u. leaders have also voiced concerns john a whole as the latest from brussels if there's been concern about a slow response by european nations add up.