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Posture towards the press, sean spicer. sean, thanks for coming on. >> congratulations on the show. >> tucker: you were obviously there when this happened, but there was really an interesting exchange with jim acosta who kept trying to ask a question and the president-elect finally said no, i'm not going to take a question from your fake news. "sean spicer, the incoming press secretary, said if i were to do that again, i was going to be thrown out of this press conference." did that happen? >> what happened was after the exchange that you just noted, he did it again towards the end, he continu...

Still an open one. but he is trying to regularize and reposition himself in a wider way which he has to do. >> we've always had a question around donald trump's temperament. how have you gauged his response to some of the kernels expressed around the ethics question? the ways in which his business is shading into the transition? what do you think about how he's handled that? >> well, i think there's room for improvement. he has retreated to the position of, hey, legally it is fine. i can do it. a president has to have a wider view than a narrow legal interpretation of what he can do. he is sup...

Crazy that we would want to look at facts inthe the ed of throwing things against -- >> you know why? because she's running for president of the united states, and she hasn't answered answer thed the questions and she destroyed any type of evidence that would prove any of this. i mean, this is horrible and to the american people we're like we can't write these kind of checks. we can't make donations to the foundation. >> the irony is she didn't destroy all the evidence. she might have done better to delete every e-mail because the blumenthal is part of the batch that came out of the e-mails --...

Four-star general any moment now right outside of that courthouse in charlotte, jim. >> let me ask you this question pamela. i know these are not necessarily easy ones. but a lower ranking person in the military or the cia, if they'd done the same would they have likely faced jail time? >> well, what we know is that there have been other situations with lower ranking officials who have been charged with similar offenses who are in jail. there's a contractor who is serving a little over a year in jail for releasing classified information to a reporter. in fact his attorney wrote the justice dep...

Warren weinstein as an american hero. hopefully we'll be able to -- rerepresents really u.s. aid workers all over the world who are trying to fight for democracy and doing humanitarian good. but the president is going to have to get a report and do some retooling. we don't want a repeat of this. the enemy here is al qaeda. we have to be careful not to over beat up on cia or president obama because of an event like this. it's tough to ferret out terrorists. we do the best we can. mistakes at war are going to happen and this is one of them. >> no question, but let's be fair. you have cost-benefi...