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Jinping could stay chinas president, general secretary of the communist party, and chairman of the central military commission, for the rest of his life. china is eliminating perhaps the central restraint in a political system that provides staggering amounts of power to the countrys leaders. what will that do over time to the ambitions and appetites of leaders? power tends to corrupt. absolute power corrupts absolutely. perhaps china will avoid this tendency, but it has been widespread througho...

Jinping could stay chinas president, general secretary of the communist party, and chairman of the central military commission, for the rest of his life. china is eliminating perhaps the central restraint in a political system that provides staggering amounts of power to the countrys leaders. what will that do over time to the ambitions and appetites of leaders? power tends to corrupt. absolute power corrupts absolutely. perhaps china will avoid this tendency, but it has been widespread througho...

When the protectors are warned that power tends to corrupt. absolute power corrupts absolutely. we are living through that experience right now. we are seeing power in the justice department, power in the fbi that clearly lead to corruption. that means that you need to take some very severe steps. it may, frankly, developing some panels of special outside lawyers who have the full power to subpoena everything and go in and to route the stuff out.de this is really a serious, serious problem.ev >>...

Sometimes you have to take somebody who protects you from the protectors. when the protectors are warned that power tends to corrupt. absolute power corrupts absolutely. we are living through that experience right now. we are seeing power in the justice department. power in the fbi that clearly lo corruption. that means that you need to take some very severe steps. it may, frankly, developing some panels of special outside lawyers who have the full power to subpoena everything and go in and to r...

Theres not years of reams of information for them to review. this was a year and a half long campaign. let the information come out. you have e-mails of people reaching out to don to follow-up, this may speculate and ask hard questions. the fact that is currently exist, that we do know is that senator feinstein said she sees no collusion. this is a senior ranking person -- >> shes not part of the mueller investigation. >> shes part of the committee thats reviewing some of the russia information,...

>> it is a lot of things that come together to make it difficult to talk about. >> absolutely. and you talked about all of them. and brian, we saw this again, back to two summers ago with fox. and the settlements and nondisclosure make it impossible for the women to come forward. and hes so powerful, now the women say, he was a rain-maker. they didnt want him to ruin their careers. this is how it works. absolute power corrupts absolutely. >> lisa bloom, one of his lawyers, had a deal, a financia...

Corrupts. he wasnt speaking about evil criminals. he was speaking about a pope. and he was a devout catholic. he was speaking about pious x. power corrupts. this is just going to get worse. what the republicans need to do is -- is run for the hills is what they need to do. you know, thats certainly what i have done. fortunately i had a hill here in new hampshire to run to. >> all right, well, were going to take a break. we are looking at air force one as it lands in yuma, arizona. jim vandehei, ...

Day. what they do each day is very binary in the digital world. >> tucker: people like that should not be inot charge of all known information in the english language, they have so much power that i wonder quickly, if you think this can continue, how long before they become a rival to the u.s. government and theyr are broken up or nationalized or regulated like a utility? >> information is power. we knower power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. i think lord acton told us that. we...

Thats what they do each day. what they do each day is binary in the digital world. >> tucker: people like that should not be in charge of all known information in the english language. they have so much power that i wonder, quickly, if you think this can continue. how long before they become a rival to the u.s. government and they are broken up or nationalized or regulated like a utility? >> its great that you ask that question. information is power. we know, you know, power corrupts and absolut...

Thats what they do each day. what they do each day is binary in the digital world. >> tucker: people like that should not be in charge of all known information in the english language. they have so much power that i wonder, quickly, if you think this can continue. how long before they become a rival to the u.s. government and they are broken up or nationalized or regulated like a utility? >> its great that you ask that question. information is power. we know, you know, power corrupts and absolut...