The Office of Government Ethics has taken the right position on this, one consistent with many Republicans and Democrats. And by the way, OGE and Walt Shaub in particular, were very, very helpful in moving the [George W. Bush] nominees through. This is not a partisan organization at all.

I think that the reality is, is that there's a shift in the mood in the USA that's very anti-Washington.

This is Donald Trump. He wants to respond. You know how he is.

This is all very interesting, but Donald Trump won in an electoral landslide that had nothing to do with the Russians.

We spend, you know, 48 hours on bogus stories, and the American people suffer. So I do think it is a problem. And I think that the media needs to, in some cases, not every case, but, in some cases, really needs to get its act together.

I think the president-elect [Donald trump] also supports anything we can do to put an end to these sorts of incidents from taking place in our country.

There are no plans in President-elect [Donald] Trump's policies moving forward to touch Medicare and Social Security.