Fiona Hill

But there's a bigger story in there, but that becomes a distraction.

It's a look over there, you know, the oldest trick in the book, you know, kind of idea.

And politicians are really good at that because it detracts from the larger question because every single member of Congress and government official, their family should be nowhere near anything they're doing.

Well, it depends on what they do, if they're making money out of it, you know, and kind of basically being in business is what I mean.

You know, kind of this is an issue.

So it's not, you know, Hunter Biden on his own.

It's, you know, kind of basically the kids of, you know, the Trump family, you name it.

No, I have the same worries as well, because in the kind of clouds, you know, I would encourage, you know, my daughter to do something completely different.

Right.

Not go into the same field.

Now, look, it's different if you're, you know, in science or, you know, mathematics or something like this.

And, you know, maybe, you know, kind of you've got a family member, you're kind of building on some of their theories and ideas.

You know, if Albert Einstein had a, you know, kind of an offspring who was in mathematics and took, you know, his father's thinking, you know, further, that would be very different.

but if it's you know kind of you're in business and other things and it's just you know it's the nepotism problem that you know one has there well it says that too in the space of ideas well they do if they're not people aren't coming and building on the ideas in a constructive way right but even for son daughter of einstein you want to think outside the box of the previous but that's what i'm meaning but i mean it's just but they shouldn't be sort of told no sorry you can't go and study math because you know whatever physics you know because of

It gets back to what I was talking about before.

We need diversity of views and diversity of thinking, and you can't have other things.

It's like being partisan or, you know...

And rooting just for a team, you know, if something is going to cloud your judgment or constrain the way you think about things and become, you know, kind of a barrier to moving on out.

And look, that's what we see in the system around Putin.

It's kind of kleptocratic and it's, you know, it's filled with nepotism.