Good morning, it is friday, february 8th. Lets begin here with the acting attorney general matt whitaker, he has decided that he will testify before the house judiciary committee. The announcement came after days of contentious wrangling as whitaker threatened not to show up unless the committee promised not to subpoena him. The facebook a prime example of democrats asserting their new control of the house for oversight of the trump administration. Democrats vowing to press whitaker on two subjects today, first his decision not to recuse himself from overseeing Robert Muellers russia investigation despite his past criticism of the probe and second his conversations with the president about the russia investigation. The president recently told the daily caller there have been no such conversations. Yesterday the president was asked whether he thought whitaker should testify. He is an outstanding person. I would say if he did testify, hed do very well. He is an outstanding person. Very,
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