between these people like tashina gauhar just thought yates was wonderful. i would hope that in wisdom, as acting director, wisdom in the incoming attorney general, will be to look at the background, look of the people who are political hacks, and figure out, "there give me advice on this? this is not for my well-being. this is to hurt the president of the united states." i know you may just have another beat, but i would encourage you that, as people make a big deal about career, look beyond career. look where their loyalties are. even though they may be in a career position, if their loyalties are not to the attorney general and not to the president of the united states and are more political than they are constitutional, disregard what they say. because the time of the gentleman has expired. mr. johnson? >> thank you, general whitaker, do you agree with the presidentt

attorney general has over 100 direct reports as deputy attorney general. >> that was something i recommended to attorney general sessions, that he needed to reorganize and have some of those people reporting directly to him. one of the mistakes, i think, that my dear friend jeff sessions -- for whom i have immense respect -- one of the mistakes as i am making, he was listening to people who love sally yates, loved her efforts to disrupt anything that president trump tried to do. they loved what president obama did through the justice department, and in fact, had informed him that his contact with the nsc was sitting on his notices. so either it developed conflict