investigation, a critic of robert mueller, was he being placed there in order to rein in the mueller investigation? something he had suggested in the past would be a good strategy for president trump. so i wanted to know whether president trump thought that was something that whitaker had the power to do or ought to do, whether he thought whitaker should leave the russia investigation alone. the president just didn t answer the question. he criticized me. but i think we still want to know the answer to that, so i really hope that s something that at some point in the near future reporters will have another opportunity to ask him. pretty strong suspicion it s not going to stop you from asking again. thank you so much. joining me now, cnn special correspondent jamie gangel. politics reporter chris cillizza, and shimon prokupecz. great to have you here. jamie, your reaction was the same as what abby just said. it s a really fair question. it s also in my view, isn t
press. remember when he attacked cecelia vega. same darn thing, the way he reacts to a woman asking a tough question. an african-american woman asking a tough question. you can see a different reaction in how the president reacts. if the president s supporters can take off their partisan glasses for a moment, this is not a red or blue issue at all. coming up for us, the president slamming first lady michelle obama when said she trump put her family in danger when he was peddling the birther conspiracy. that s next. hi, my name is sam davis and i m going to tell you about exciting plans available to anyone with medicare. many plans provide broad coverage and still may save you money on monthly premiums and prescription drugs.
it shouldn t it be an easy one for a president to answer? it is fair, it is easy, it is the question of the day, because why he picked whitaker is important. i think the gentleman doth protest too much. how many times did he say he didn t know matt whitaker? that s simply not true. number one. number two, it s not credible because this, to donald trump, the attorney general is the most important position right now, because what bothers him more than anything else in the world, except maybe immigration and the wall, not really. it is the mueller investigation. and finally, he picked matt whitaker. nobody else did. donald trump did, out of no place. rod rosenstein was next in line. there were a whole line of people. matt whitaker got scooped out and put in this position. abby s question pushed his button. because it was the question of
that in a different the national labor relations board. we don t want to get too wonky, but there s an example of it being a problem before. look, it could be a problem. and that is a concern with people in the department of justice. there are career people there. there are senior level people that have been placed there by the white house that are concerned. it s on all levels. really, it s going to be interesting to see down the line who meets with whitaker. does the fbi director meet with him. do other senior level law enforcement people meet with him? because the question is, can this man be trusted? and for however long he s going to be there, that s a serious issue. and certainly, when it comes to the russia investigation, does mueller sit down with him and give him a full briefing of that investigation? because you have to know, and you have to know that these people know such as mueller and wray, that there s a chance he s going to go back to the white house and tell them e