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Mentioned, how to you deal with the fact that it seems so unrelenting? >> well, you know, i know my son. i know my son's character. hunter did nothing wrong, and that's the bottom line. pete: where's the follow-up? ed: he did nothing wrong, we don't really know what he did. how did he make the money? getting over $80,000 a month from burr -- burisma without any energy background? how did that happen? rachel: it's really perplexing. i mean, nobody would put that kind of trust and money into somebody like him. pete: and the president says, where's hunter? where is hunter? what explaining can he ...

That's a whole lot of money from somebody who didn't have an energy background. jedediah: can people at home just register that for a second? you bring up a great point about him not having this expertise. he was supposed to be a consultant and adviser that doesn't have a background. i don't know, unless he's some gas and oil expert on the side, that's his little hobby, but it's crazy when you talk about the value, how are people not supposed to be asking serious questions when you're talking about this enormous dollar value, he's sitting on the board and offering advice on a board that he rea...

Informant. then professor asked leading questions about whether it was tied to russia. it they came to believe that papadopoulos lied to the fbi not about that contact but because he had colluded with russia but because he wanted to cover up that meeting in hopes he could still end up big job with the trump team. some of the president's critics are still trying to keep alive the idea that he has some kind of connection to russia. >> binding russian operatives to meet with the president is kind of a diplomatic thing i would think. >> you are saying it sounds different than being the coffee boy ...

>> i love the pick for a number of reasons. we talked about it a bunch of times. first of all, you have to be brilliant to rise from -- it's the only job he's ever had. he's only worked at exxon. he started as an entry level engineer and worked his way all the way up, ceo. at one point probably half a trillion dollar business, $500 million business. that's competent. and you have to be a diplomat in order to do business in 200 countries. you have to know the ins and outs of business in countries. here's what i like about trump's cabinet. he's emphasizing, i said earlier, military but also busi...

That. because we've had so many natural disasters, he would be excellent in fema, homeland security, energy. he has an extensive energy background. >> reporter: what are you hearing, fema? >> i don't have any inside information. i'm a believer in pat mccoy. congratulations to governor-elect cooper. >> reporter: this is the third time donald trump has come here. twice, obviously, during the campaign and now here today. the first time famously there were about a dozen people who were ejected. someone who sucker-punched a protester. >> those were rabble-rousers. >> reporter: i will tell you that ...