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If he's under investigation, points of recusal or not? >> the inspector general of the justice department has jurisdiction over the fbi, so there's nothing unusual and the fbi being ininvestigated by the inspector general. the other points i think people may not know is that inspector generals don't have any power except to write reports, they can't prosecute, or fire anybody. >> they pass it on to the authorities. >> right to people who can prosecute. but they themselves can't do that. >> as a former fbi guy, is this really about getting the fbi reputation -- james comey was criticized by bot...

>> i think he does. i agree completely with general mattis and others that russia must be seen as a potential adversary or enemy on certain issues. we need to find areas of cooperation but ultimately president putin has a very different agenda than ours so he will have to be tested economically, diplomatically and even militarily in the baltics and elsewhere, but ultimately i think president-elect trump once he sits in that oval office and has people like general mattis and pompeo and maybe even his new secretary of state, rex tillerson i assume, but whoever it is they will present to him the ...

Mr. pompeo said i will not follow the order and they will resign or they will follow it and carry out the president's direction, but it's president-elect trump who make it is policy, it's a good way to flush out what they think, but ultimately it's what the president-elect thinks and not them. >> dana, what do you think? >> i completely agree that the buck stops with the commander in chief. the fact is that this is somebody who has never been in an elected office, he's never been in a position dealing with these issues ever. he's a successful businessman that's the reason he got elected to dea...

Nominees to, and that's a standard i think we should stick to here as well. i'll remind you in previous administrations folks who look like they were going to sail through confirmation were ultimately tripped up on issues that came up in their fbi background check or in their ethics disclosures. we constitutional also, wolf, have the significant and unresolved issue of president-elect trump's potential conflicts of interest, which i hope we're going to hear a clearance to this wednesday. >> that's when he holds his first news conference in more than six months. all right, senator. thank you ve...

Complex public records and difficult public positions that i think deserve a full and fair hearing. i'm going to be pushing back on our moving forward with eight different confirmation hearings this week. the same week that we're also going to be voting on the budget reconciliation -- and the same week that donald trump is at least allegedly going to faebl hold the press conference where he will radio veal how he plans to deal with his conflicts of interest. >> what would be wrong with starting the process. let the committees start the confirmation process, but make sure before the full senate...