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This hotel going up. how would that kind of a conflict be sorted out short of trump divesting himself of those properties and taking his name down? >> well, when i was the chief ethics lawyer in the bush white house, i recall that we wouldn't even let people put president bush's name on a public school until he left office much less a commercial enterprise. i know this is a different situation because the president-elect has his name on a lot of these buildings, but that needs to be changed. his interest in these buildings need to be sold through an initial public offering or otherwise and his...

Properties and taking his name down? >> well, when i was the chief ethics lawyer in the bush white house, i recall that we wouldn't even let people put president bush's name on a public school until he left office much less a commercial enterprise. i know this is a different situation because the president-elect has his name on a lot of these buildings, but that needs to be changed. his interest in these buildings need to be sold through an initial public offering or otherwise and his name taken off the building. you have building z all over the world with the president's name on them, those a...

Thank you for taking the time tonight. appreciate it. i'm joined by jennifer granholm and richard painter, chief ethics white house lawyer under george w. bush. and mr. painter, let me start with you. i read your op-ed. it was somewhat surprising to me but there seems to be a collective gasp happening after what we've seen played out in the last three or four days. >> well, absolutely. the fbi's job is to investigate, not to play politics and the fbi certainly doesn't have an obligation to report to congress but should not be reporting to congress. and the members of the house oversight commit...

Letter, you have three straight news days of articles with nothing but warring factions of the fbi leaking info without an investigation anonymously and prosecuting this in the court of the public opinion and shredding any presumption of innocence that might have existed. >> this is a terrible week for the fbi. i have never seen the agency with such indiscipline, with such disregard for these basic prosecutorial principles and ultimately when the dust settles, whether it's donald trump or hillary clinton, the institution that's going to suffer the most will be the federal bureau of investigati...