should people be worried that this president thinks about going after his enemies by using the doj as if they were his tough worried, i wouldn t say worried. i think people should be dejected by it. worried that s a fancy word, mike, help me understand it. no, it s not. depressed. i think worried, you think there s an actual likelihood that the tanks are going to roll. i don t think there is. i don t think the d oj today or tomorrow. why would he put somebody like whitaker as the acting doj, acting a.g.? somebody like whitaker in what respect? a loyalist, somebody with very heavy-handed views about this. certainly someone that you didn t vet that carefully to see whether or not he was going to reflect well on you, undervetting. i think he had gotten along with him at the briefings. he says he doesn t even know him. he says he was just told about him, counselor. he said initially he knew him well. which do we believe? i think something in the middle. he knew
there was a prior incident involving a basically a direction for him to call the doj and he had a threat to lee dine, i m not surprised he wrote him that. i m not, either, and also that s a great point that you make because it sheds light on something else that used to be clouded in mystery. would the president really ever go to mcgahn and say i want comey out, i want to go get rid of somebody? did mcgahn really have to say to him, calm down, don t do this, i won t do this? remember, the who u.ite house a the surrogates said that never happened. this thestory makes that story likely. this is the kind of memo you wrote, just as you said, you ve wherein them before. there are other stories about him having voiced things he d like to do involving foreign relations of the united states. where he s told by the defense department either he s told we re not going to do it or, yeah, we ll get right on it, mr. president and the phone goes click. understood. they are very different things.
general. matt wit ker a former attorney general from iowa serving as session s chief of staff. trump is said to have a strong personalal rapore with wit ker. at least v for now will oversee the mueller probe and rest of the doj business. including the other federal investigations, including the new york prosecutors locking into the finances of the president and his former aid. now, for what this aj mean, we recould joineded by former u.s. attorney joe degenofa not in the studio. former fox news contributor andrew mccarthy and james grill ger the doj who became an acting doj. democrats are already calling . [ laughter ] for whitt ker to recuse himself because of his past statements.