that s danforth testifying to congress about that investigation and his findings. ahead of special counsel robert mueller testifying early tomorrow morning, the justice department now has essentially suggested that mueller s lucky to be allowed to be testifying at all, implying that they never let this sort of thing happen with people who have jobs like robert mueller s. well, the jack danforth tape tells us that that s not true. but how else should we think of mueller s testimony tomorrow in terms of how it fits into history? joining us now is nbc news presidential historian michael beschloss. mr. beschloss, thanks so much for being here. it s great to have you here tonight. thank you, rachel. i was struck by the justice department letting robert mueller know in this sort of terse letter that he was basically lucky to be allowed in there. there is precedence of special counsels testifying to congress about their findings. absolutely. kenneth starr in november of 1998, a month be
during the clinton administration. ahead of special counsel robert mueller testifying early tomorrow morning, the justice department now is essentially suggested that mueller s lucky to be allowed to be testifying at all, implying that they never let this sort of thing happen with people who have jobs like robert mueller s. well, the jack danforth tape tells us that that s not true. but how else should we think of mueller s testimony tomorrow in terms of how it fits into history. joining us now is michael beschloss. thanks so much for being here. it s great to have you here tonight. thank you, rachel. i was struck by the justice department letting robert mueller know in this sort of terse letter that he is lucky to be allowed in there. there is precedence of special counsels testifying about their findings. absolutely. kenneth starr in 1998, a month before bill clinton was impeached by the house talking about the famous starr report which he had sent to congress and made public a
in terms of the justice department letting out this information, where we have ended up is serious, and actually just to sum it up, what i m going to do is read you the lead that was just posted tonight by the excellent reporter charlie savage at the new york times. he nuts this up pretty perfectly after a twist yea dy day on the. matthew whitaker who was installed as acting attorney by president trump, has cleared himself to supervise the special counsel s investigation, rejecting the ethics specialists suggestion that he recuse himself. the development came soon after the disclosure about the president s nominee for attorney general william barr had written a memo this spring in which he strongly criticized one of the main lines of inquiry by the special counsel robert mueller, whether mr. trump had committed obstruction of justice. the memo raises questions about whether barr would order mueller
out the real story after anone nuss officials corrected the record about what happened and after a weird day in terms of the justice department letting out this information, where we have ended up is serious. and just to sum it up, what i m going to do is read you the lead just posted by the excellent reporter charlie savage at the new york times. i think he actually nuts this up pretty perfectly after a twisty day on this story. quote, matthew whitaker who was installed last month as acting attorney general by president trump has cleared himself to supervise the special counsel investigation, rejecting the recommendation of career justice department ethics specialists that he recuse himself. the development came soon after the disclosure that the president s nominee for attorney general william barr had written a memo this spring in which he strongly criticized one of the main lines of inquiry by the special counsel robert mueller whether mr. trump had committed obstruction of justi