now whitaker has taken the job of overseeing the investigation, and he is fighting back against accusations that he s going to try to rein in or undermine the probe. bloomberg news reports the acting attorney general has told associates that the justice department under his new leadership will not cut the budget for mueller s investigation, even though the only place that suggestion came from was him in this interview. he specifically put that idea out there as an option last year on tv, available for everyone to see. this is not hard journalistic work for us. he also continued to field questions about whether his ability to be acting attorney general was constitutional. noting the city currently has four cases proceeding against the department of justice, that name fired attorney general jeff sessions as the defendant. san francisco city attorney is asking the justice department to provide the legal justification behind elevating whitaker to lead the justice department. rod rosenstein
leadership will not cut the budget for mueller s investigation, even though the only place that suggestion came from was him in this interview. he specifically put that idea out there as an option last year on tv, available for everyone to see. this is not hard gijournalistic work for us. he also continued to field questions about whether his ability to be acting attorney general was constitutional. noting the city currently has four cases proceeding against the department of justice, that name fired attorney general jeff sessions as the defendant. san francisco city attorney is asking the justice department to provide the legal justification behind elevating whitaker to lead the justice department. rod rosenstein would have been the natural choice, by the way, otherwise the city said it may be forced to ask a judge for a legal rationale. now the wall street journal reports late tonight that the justice department is expected
macarthur in korea. i m going in behind rosenstein. i m going to make the whole probe by mueller ineffective because i have the attorney general on my team now. in the 2017 interview, just months after mueller began his probe, this new guy, matt whitaker, said it was ridiculous that deputy attorney general rod rosenstein appointed a special counsel. he said it was ridiculous that there even was a probe by mueller. here s the new attorney general of the united states, ladies and gentlemen. here he goes. for whatever reason, rod rosenstein determined that the department of justice couldn t handle this in their ordinary course of work, which i think was ridiculous. i think it smells a little fishy, but i just hope it doesn t turn into a fishing expedition. and another radio interview, wonder how sean hannity got this get, whitaker said the quest of james comey to drop the investigation of michael flynn was not, catch this word, not obstruction of justice. and here comes matt whitaker,
story, giuliani has pushed the timeline again and again on the interview and the written responses to robert mueller s team. the president has shown really no inclination at this point to really sit down and answer verbal questions. and the question is, what is the extent really of these written questions? is it just a few lines about the comey firing? what else? well, what about let me go back to betsy who broke the story about whitaker and his m.o. and his job application, which took months to undercut. he was telling people on the train, talking to passers-by, i m doing all this tv so i can get this job as attorney general. it s broad daylight. you re laughing because it s broad daylight. this guy applied for the job of trump protector and he got it. okay, now, apparently, is he going to quash this subpoena? if they try to subpoena, he is the attorney general, could he say nice try, robert mueller, but you re not going to subpoena the president? i can only surmise, but i think
united states. here he goes. let s assume that the president asked him to stop investigating flynn. that doesn t rise to the level of obstruction of justice and it doesn t sound to me based on what s been reported that jim comey, as he sat there, believed that the president was telling him to stop the investigation. liz hultsman, i don t know the law like you do. obstruction of justice, the president may have done it again. but they re not going to stop him, it seems, because it is within his legal power to pick an acting attorney general after he got jeff sessions to, at your request, mr. president, i m resigning. creating an opening for his guy. well, but if the objective here by trump was to stop the mueller investigation, prevent his son from being indicted, prevent roger stone from being indicted, prevent himself from being named in some kind of indictment, then it s definitely an impeachment offense. i don t know if it s