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Personal or business or financial interest in any of this, he did have an appearance of conflict based off what he said on cnn and other networks in his past writings and because of that appearance of conflict, that ethics official said if you're asking me what i would do, i would step aside. whitaker disregarded that advice and he instead relied on his own panel of advisers who recommended that he not step aside, poppy. >> it's significant. now the question is what will he do, right, with regard to the mueller probe? because he's the one in charge of it all. laura, thank you very much. we'll ...