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Director of the central intelligence agency. but i do view my role there as central in providing you an understanding of what is taking place, how that took place, and a set of options surrounding the kinds of thing in the intelligent world at least one might take action on so we can successfully push back against it. >> wouldnt the first step to be to establish a policy as to how we treat cyber attacks. and therefore from which we could develop a strategy? and right now we have no policy? >> se...

But you have mentioned you would recuse yourself involving hillary clinton or the clinton campaign and e-mails and then i understand i wasnt present but senator bloomen ththal asked yo whether or not you would recuse yourself on other cases and you said on a case by case basis, same thing if we are dealing with the trump campaign or anyone in the trump campaign, would you recuse yourself as attorney general from that prosecution? >> my response to my recusal issue was because i made public comme...

For the deposition. how much he says publicly about whether he takes one or what happened there, that is -- thats a question of, you know, how much political pressure is on him. i mean, i think, you know, his legal issues are so well-known and theres so many cases out there the opposing lawyers will talk about it and i think we will know whether he will give a deposition. the interesting question is will the transcripts be revealed? thats probably going to be on a case by case basis and also whe...

Be appoieppointed by donald tru. the conflicts are innumerable and will tie him in knots. >> the other thing we continue to talk past is the fact it may not -- the other issue may be that theyre actually sitting in on meetings. if they continue to sit in on meetings after hes sworn in, thats also a problem. that violate potentially anti-nepotism laws. theres a reason for those. it says any public official, any public official applies to the president of the united states, if any of them are paid...

Business, they clearly should not be part of building and forming the government. that, to me -- theres no problem in taking counsel from your family. the problem is they havent set up and set forth what are the guidelines here to make sure that the conflict of interest stay away. >> do you agree with it? >> look, i wish they would be clearer about it and perhaps clearer about it faster but i do think that this is sort of a bit of a new creature and were going to see how it plays out here if iva...

Theyre very impressive people. the problem is the business side. thats exactly right. theres a very clear ethical imperative. liquidate assets and put them into treasury bills, the safest thing, no conflict of interest. hes trying to pretend theres some separation because the kids are going to run the business. he could have an ownership interest. its impossible conflicts, the easiest one, most obvious one is the hotel. he just fixed up his hotel in washington. the trump international hotel. he ...

Tax breaks, classiest tax breaks in the world but they have to liquidate. >> thats unfair of you to ask donald trump to do that. he would be the -- he would be depriving his children of their livelihood. >> his children are just find. >> youre discouraging people inside the sector from running for office. >> sean spicer of the rn kprrks basically said as long as the trump team is transparent, in this case about donald jr.s involvement, its okay, e he went on to say conflicts of interest arise wh...

The fbi agent calls back, back, back, leaves voicemail -- >> the guy doesnt call back because he said theres nothing new to tell the guy. >> the dnc did not have sophisticated monitoring software to look for intrusions and the guy did some checking but didnt see anything. because he didnt see anything, he didnt return the calls from the fbi agent. this went on for months. months. >> they didnt go up the chain, it seems like, at the dnc. just basically stayed -- i dont understand why the fbi, i m...

Back to running the clinton foundation. i think the republicans would see the problem with that. >> if it was a chelsea clinton in a president-elect hillary clinton -- >> meeting with the same people, having the same kinds of meetings and officially work on a transition, going back and running the foundation. they would be correct in criticizing that. i think that would be highly problemat problematic. i think on the ivanka being the de facto first lady maybe i dont have a problem with that. woo...

But i do think this is a bit of a new creature and were going to see how it plays out here. but, you know, if ivanka is the government trump kid and the other two are the business trump kid, i dont have that much problem with that and it is going to a case by case basis. but i think it is best practice to make it clear and how. im not sure were going to get that. >> does it make sense to you kirsten, that there are sitting around with the tech executives today? >> no. the example i keep using is...