McCaskill: ‘Could Be a Crime’ If Trump Nominees Enter Office with Conflicts of Interest

‘I mean, look at Tillerson and the issue of sanctions’

SCARBOROUGH: "But Senator, shouldn’t that be for everybody who is going before the Senate? Don’t you all, doesn’t everybody in the Senate need to have all the information in front of them, whether they’re worth, you know, $20 billion or $2, before you can vote on them?" 
McCASKILL: "No question. And before you can ask questions of him. I mean, look at Tillerson and the issue of sanctions. We now know he’s been lobbying against sanctions against Russia before in his private job, and we now know that one of his subsidiaries was, in fact, selling and doing business with Iran when our country had them under sanction. These are important things for us to know. And we are digging to find some of this. But at a bare minimum, the Republicans ought to be willing to allow us to wait until we have the basic ethic conflict of interest information. If they go into office and they have conflicts that have not been resolved, it could be a crime under our statutes. That matters."

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