Sean Spicer Blames "Partisan Politics" For Lawsuit Over Trump's Global Business Ties — Transcript

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1. 0:00state of Maryland the District of
2. 0:01Columbia filing a lawsuit against the
3. 0:03President right uh seeking
4. 0:06uh rulings on two points in the ents
5. 0:10Clause of the Constitution what does the
6. 0:11Pres the RNC thinks that this is bogus
7. 0:14uh lawsuit what is the president what's
8. 0:16the White House's perspective on yeah
9. 0:18the president's interests as previously
10. 0:20discussed do not violate the emoluments
11. 0:22clause for reasons uh that length that
12. 0:24the Department of Justice filing
13. 0:26enumerate in their Friday night uh
14. 0:28filing uh with respect to to the crew
15. 0:30lawsuit was the first one uh this
16. 0:32lawsuit today is just another iteration
17. 0:34of the the case that was filed by uh
18. 0:36that group crew um filed actually by the
19. 0:39same lawyers so it's not hard to
20. 0:41conclude that partisan politics may be
21. 0:42one of the motivations behind the seat
22. 0:44uh the suit was filed by two Democratic
23. 0:46attorney generals the lawyers driving
24. 0:48the suit are an advocacy group with
25. 0:50partisan ties it actually started with a
26. 0:52press conference as opposed to filing it
27. 0:54which is interesting and the suit
28. 0:56challenges the sort of business
29. 0:57transaction that everyone from uh Penny
30. 1:00pritsker who served in the last
31. 1:02Administration and others have engaged
32. 1:03in well office so I think we'll continue
33. 1:05to move to dismiss this case in in um in
34. 1:07the normal course of business