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Acoua accountable to the people. it's not supposed to be direct political accountability. how do you conceive of if you are confirmed who your boss is when you are the fbi director? >> senator, it's the right question, of course. it's true that the president is the head of the executive branch. the attorney general is the head of the justice democrat. the fbi is part of the justice and part of the executive branch. the independence of the fbi, what we are talking about is not stru structural or organizational but of process. to me, the fbi needs to be able to follow the facts and follow the la...

Of the fbi director, but it's not supposed to be direct, political accountability. how do you conceive if you are confirmed who your bosses when you're the fbi director? >> it's the right question, of course. it is true that the president as head of the executive branch in the attorney general is the head of the justice department and the fbi is both part of the justice department and part of the executive branch. i think the independence, we talk about independence of the fbi, what we are really talking about is not structural or organizational independence, but independence of process. to me...

Accountable to the people. there is a boss of the fbi director. but it's not supposed to be direct political accountability. how do you conceive if you're confirmed who your boss is when you're the fbi director? >> senator, it's the right question, of course. it is true that the president is the head of the executive branch and the attorney general is the head of the justice department. and the fbi is both part of the justice department and part of the executive branch. i think the independence when we talk about independence of the fbi, what we're really talking about is not structural or org...

I think that if there are people who want to make a name for themselves and increase their speaking fees asking the same question 50 different times and never asking about job creation, never asking how we're tackling the odoid crisis what we're doing for veterans and military families and job seekers and creators -- >> that's what you're worried about? >> i'm not worries about anything with respect to that because this is a very busy, very accessible press shop. all day long members of cnn and others ask -- not parts of press and com but i support their efforts. they are asked to provide info...

They're difficult, but also trying to gauge the impact on our health care system? something you also know a lot about as doctor. it takes time to understand how this would be absorbed into the system? >> you have at least four things in that question. let me hit them. first it doesn't address 1/6 of the economy. it's focussed upon the individual market. it does not touch medicare. does not touch v.a. the employer sponsored insurance, which most american, covered through. secondly, i don't defend the process. i would have preferred a better. but that said, if two democrats walked in to mitch mc...