He regards her solemnly for a long few seconds. "And can you not imprison her? Or execute her, should her crimes justify it?" He uses crimes very loosely here, with no particular regard for the legalities of a system which he knows is deeply corrupt. He trusts Taylor's assessment of her adversary, as he has trusted his own for millennia.

And of course that's only the first question, he'll follow up with the next after he hears her answer to this.