i 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 the 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. 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 states would be ordered to divest in a clear and transparent way from his businesses. are seen 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 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 receiver 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 moment's 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 gain. some is 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 emolument 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 accept 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 the term argument is so key 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. trump 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. that i was in florida with twenty five thousand people going wild. and they 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 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 the 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. five days 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 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 is profiting from his office trump has been holding rallies across the country to support republican candidates and has 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 official release. no one who spoke to at this rally seemed worried by the possibility that the president's business dealings may well have put him 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 long greg and 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 at 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 only you know the super elite that's what i always say i always hate when they say well the elite just started not to go to something i'm doing. is it well i have a lot more money than. 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 hallow 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. augury 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 a an embarrassing thing. and that's a very very corrosive. and together. we will make america wealthy again that's happening that's happening a lot faster than the fake news ever said it could happen. i did one that says guilty let me. fix that real quick.

so why didn't choose to write that given that trump has been convicted and. i think it's just a matter of time. he's got all this power he's never admitted really is wrong. for that reason i think we're in a pickle. we're . i have dedicated almost my entire professional life to the bench and fight against corruption and what i have heard is that we need champions we need also to shine the light on those shampoos and this award bridges that gap that existed in this you.

know meet your own version here on shine the light on what they do and do it not shine a light on your hero when young woman nation for the international base a war two thousand and eighteen for more information go to isa war dot com. saudi arabia reverses days of denials finally claiming journalist. was killed in its kinston blue consulate jury a brawl. i'm not mothers and this is all just to have a live from doha also coming up the kingdom says it's fired several intelligence

officials and arrested eighteen suspects over the killing. tens times across afghanistan polling stations that talkative by the taliban as millions turn out to try to vote in parliamentary elections. mission to mercury a spacecraft sets off a journey to find out more about the solar system's smallest and least explored planet. turkey's ruling party says it won't allow saudi arabia to cover up the killing of its dissident journalist. the staunchly iteration comes as saudi arabia finally admitted that the journalist was killed inside its consulate in istanbul announcement came in the middle of the night on the state's television seventeen

days after her walked into the consulate building and after a series of subsequent denials we had now says there was a brawl inside and he died during the fight german chancellor angela merkel has condemned the killing she says saudi's account is insufficient. five top side the officials is said to have been sacked among them a senior intelligence officer and an advisor to the royal courts eighteen others have been arrested u.s. president donald trump says saudi arabia's announcement seems credible but others in washington say they are far from convinced turkey's ruling party has voted to reveal all details about her shoulders death adding it will never allow a cover up saudi arabia's latest account contradicts information from turkish security sources shoji was tortured killed and dismembered. is outside the saudi consulate in istanbul and he's joining me now jamal what kind of

pressure does this put on turkey do you think to start revealing some of the evidence that has been in its possession after this statement. well i mean it seems that there's just so i mean they're full but a slight reversal of roles and that in the past couple of weeks the turks have been leaking information to put pressure on the saudis to admit that john official she was in fact murdered inside the consulate that he had not left as they initially claimed and he was somebody who. essentially was dealt with by this hit squad that's was sent by the saudis now the saudis are saying well we've come out we've admitted that we've killed him however it wasn't preplanned it was a mistake it was a fights and we're going to hold everybody accountable to it which now means that the pressure is on the turks to come out and actually prove that the information

that they've been giving in terms of the fifteen member his squad that they've identified through c.c.t.v. footage in terms of the fact that they say they have all your recordings that jamal khashoggi was beaten on as soon as he entered that he was tortured he was not questioned that's what he was killed and after he was killed his body was dismembered or of that has to be released otherwise we are expected to believe that this fifteen nine year old journalist who was getting into what we were going into the consulate to get paperwork so he could get married start a new life after he had just bought an apartment in istanbul a few weeks earlier this cited to get into some random brawl with fifteen members of the saudi security apparatus amongst them. members of the inner circle of mohammed bin side of mine who flew in coincidentally on these private jets owned by a company commandeered personally by a mob and some money as part of the anti corruption scandal who had made several phone calls to the personal secretary of mohamed bin one man on the day that he was

killed that got involved in this random brawl which ended up costing him his life and then the people who fought him decided rather than to call an ambulance they would start chopping him up with a bomb so that happen. to be there and obviously to their luck they had an autopsy experts amongst them so it's very bizarre to say the least but the onus now is firmly on the turks to at least give credence to the theory that they've been putting forward and to dispel one some for all what's many people view as an insult in terms of the narrative that the saudis have been pushing and we've already heard . chancellor angela merkel dismiss it but obviously when you've got the u.s. president saying there's credibility and it's when the u.k. foreign office is saying that they're studying the situation the turks here aren't really out but they haven't been giving that substantial evidence to prove why they aren't buying interests so well for now thanks very much indeed well as several countries have been reacting to the statement from saudi arabia britain says it's

considering the reports and what its next steps will be the president of the european parliament has called for an urgent investigation to clarify the circumstances surrounding her so g.'s death and dutch prime minister mark rutte has echoed those sentiments saying many questions remain on and so audio experts have been released a one g.'s final interviews the discussion with a newsweek reporter was all regionally confidential shoji said he feared for his life here's some of that recording he wants to be ready for mr why not bring evidence to the public opinion why not bring transparent process where where you have. introduced the rule of law and due process and everything and the people would be on his side if he would do that it could even fight him it all starts and i don't really believe like this

a month. before because that's the limit you you. know. and you didn't want that you didn't even let me for some time i feel that you want to. be just silicon. you know because it think i'm. like oh. yeah. that doesn't work you can have it both ways. you want to have it can you have it both ways can you call yourself can you. but don't want. it is not much and so the. question here number one and all. do you see anybody that many couples

mishandle click on or. on. america i'm not going to. look at ok. well many of the world's major newspapers are critical of saudi arabia's version of events the times in london describes the admission as the greatest embarrassment of saudi arabia's modern history ukase guardian newspaper says the saudi government appears to be trying to protect the crown prince's position the new york times raises questions about saudi arabia's various explanations about what happened to the shoji pointing out the initially said he left the consulate alive and well. the washington post which i showed the world for says the new account may do little to ease international demands for the kingdom to be held accountable well there is growing pressure on the us president from within

congress to react more strongly to the saudi admission by qana reports from washington d.c. . well president trump says he's satisfied with the report he says he finds it credible he continues to insist though that he needs to speak to the crown prince himself to find out more details the president might be satisfied but members of his congress are definitely not there's been uniform and bipartisan condemnation of the saudi statement senator rand paul a republican as gone so far as to say that arms sales to the saudis must stop immediately immediate sanctions must be imposed that is generally the tenor throughout congress a bipartisan level democrats and republicans coming out against the saudis statement certainly pressure ramping up on president trump from his own congress to take some kind of tangible action in response some other dude is the middle east

director of campaigns it amnesty international she's joining us via skype from beirut thank you very much indeed for joining us what are your concerns about the possible outcomes of this case. well given saudi arabia's direct involvement in the coordination and killing of christian b.c. we believe that any investigation led by them lacks credibility and would be untrustworthy this is why we are meddling for an independent investigation into the execution harsh of them it's only through a un led independent investigation that the world can finally know the full truth and grasp the details around his killing through this investigation we would be able to understand the coordination of the perpetrators who are responsible for his killing. the investigation the end hounds led by the

saudi arabian in the florida keys is just an attempt to cover up the details surrounding his killing and an attempt to whitewash any sort of truth. and cover up those who are ultimately responsible for his death therefore what we need now than ever is this actually general of the u.n. to set up an independent investigation so we can finally know the truth and hold those responsible to account given the fact that we've heard the responses as i was talking about just a couple of minutes ago that have been that the international response is from newspapers and from governments around the world which there has seems to have been a degree of significant outrage about this death how confident can you be though that anybody will actually either be in a position to all willing to carry out an investigation into this case given the

fact that so many countries and so many organizations are interlinked with saudi arabia. well this is why we need an investigation and one that is transparent that independence the world is outraged governments as well have expressed their concerns about the saudi arabian investigation. that separation of lower eighty's can be in a position to request that the u.n. secretary general setup an investigation led by the u.n. and it's absolutely crucial that this happens given that we have allies of the saudi arabian government like the u.k. and u.s. who are cowering in the face of economic deals security do this is why we need the u.n. to step up now and launch an investigation so that a generous killing is not shrugged under the.