"It like a powder keg that's going to explode"

Republican leaders on Capitol Hill say they’re willing to give the president-elect running room to get his financial house in order. “This is not what I’m concerned about in Congress,” House Speaker Paul Ryan told CNBC on Wednesday.

Eisen says even the GOP is going to have to come around on its oversight responsibilities if Trump doesn’t take adequate precautions. His reasoning: Senate Republicans hold a narrow majority, and he says it won’t take much for lawmakers to join their Democratic colleagues in information requests and calls for hearings. Already, the media has reported Trump has demonstrated business interests in global hot spots from Taiwan to Cuba that Eisen says suggest the president-elect is “already blurring between all these lines, between the business of the U.S. and his personal business.”

“And then that’s where you get into the ‘I word,’” Eisen said in his New York television interview. “But I want to be very careful. It’s very early days. I hope things are not going to go in that direction. That requires a lot of hypotheticals.”