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Case, it was a very elaborate ruse, it seems like. and that's slightly different, but in general startups are, you know -- they're risky. >> is it going to be over and done with here, or are we going to look closer at the board, their involvement? i mean, theranos -- >> i always think the boards are culpable. another secret, which you know, covering business. these boards are mostly out to lunch, as far as i can tell. i've covered so many boards over the years. the yahoo! board, over the years there's been -- they just don't know what's going on. the uber board. all kinds of stuff. and so you ...

That's something that's also, again, you know, not the best example to set when you're running the most important office in the land. >> fair point, fair point, ron insana. we're going to leave it there. up next, this story blows my little mind. a massive medical start-up, i can't even believe we call it a start-up, once dubbed the future of health care. elizabeth holm, who many said was the new steve jobs, now in the cross hairs of the sec. a massive fraud suit. you will not believe some of the very high-profile political figures well connected to this company. founder charged with massive fr...

On -- >> we saw ryan zinke say this is innuendo, this is untrue. in the case of ben carson, the hud official claims after she raised a red flag about carson's spending, she was demoted. if that proves to be true, does that not have to be damning for ben cars and his wife? >> it should be. in fact, why does he need -- you can talk about refurbishing your offices in government because some are old, but spending $31,000 on a dining room table is certainly most families don't do that, if -- unless they are of means. this is taxpayer money they're spending. i think it's unconscionable this is happe...

Investors, raising more than $700 million bucks by exaggerating and even straight-up lying about the company's blood testing technology. now, neither theranos nor have denied any wrongdoing. i want to bring in a woman who certainly knows this space, kara swisher, executive editor at recode. take us back. because elizabeth holmes was this 34-year-old silicon valley wonder kid, on the cover, "fortune," "forbes," next steve jobs. the world wanted her to be the next big thing. >> let's be honest, we didn't cover that much because it was medical stuff and we don't cover medical stuff. and it really...

Security exposures and paying good hackers for those. a company employs hackers, people on the good side who are going to do this. we see companies trying to make a proactive approach. you have to disclose it. we do need new regulations on these companies that don't expose when consumer information is stolen. it's not their information. it's ours. it's not theirs. >> that's why when people are mad at equifax. it's not just because it was stolen. just do the right thing. it's 2017. we don't want you to lose our information, but we get it happens. let us be mad at you for one thing, not the thre...