subpoenas, there should be no doubt about why. heidi, who is could often perfe cooperating? the chairs are going to face a decision here, mika. to your point with cummings, no one to the hush money payment example, they sent letters to the white house to try to get the ethics lawyers who filled out trump s financial disclosures, they were told basically no. as you saw in his interviews, it s also going on with the judiciary committee. based on reporting as of last night, only 50% of the individuals and entities on that list of 81 are actually cooperating in some form. here s the challenge that they face. folks like nadler said we re not going to issue a flood of
be just repugnant, unethical and perhaps illegal, but if that s the view of our colleagues in the gop, getting them behind an obstruction of justice impeachment, you can imagine how difficult that would be. this is the problem we ve had with this presidency. which is he has so dumbed down ethical standards that it s hard to notice how often they re trampled. i find it absolutely remarkable that the acting attorney general and now the permanent attorney general both refuse to commit to following the advice of ethics lawyers. the top law enforcement personnel in the country won t commit to doing that. i mean, that is just shocking. what about the commitment to release the mueller report? you don t have that either. we don t have that either. now, the attorney general in his confirmation proceedings said that he would release it to a maximum degree he s allowed to. well, he s allowed to release the whole thing. we re going to hold him to that.
general, mr. whitaker was involved in conversations about the scope of the southern district of new york u.s. attorney berman s recusal and whether the southern district went too far in pursuing the campaign finance case in which the president was listed as individual number one. leading off our discussion now, the man with the global view of all of this, congressman adam schiff of california. he s the chairman of the house intelligence committee. and chairman schiff, can we just begin going backwards through this material, through what we just heard from chairman nadler? what is your reaction to what chairman nadler is telling us now about what matthew whitaker clearly withheld, at minimum, in the public hearing and some would say deliberately misled the committee. well, my reaction is this. jeff sessions was effectively fired because he recused himself. because he followed the advice of ethics lawyers at the justice department. matt whitaker was hired because he talked about how
involved in conversations about the scope of the southern district of new york u.s. attorney berman s recusal and whether the southern district went too far in pursuing the campaign finance case in which the president was listed as individual number one. leading off our discussion now, the man with the global view of all of this, congressman adam schiff of california. he s the chairman of the house intelligence committee. and chairman schiff, can we just begin going backwards through this material, through what we just heard from chairman nadler? what is your reaction to what chairman nadler is telling us now about what matthew whitaker clearly withheld, at minimum, in the public hearing and some would say deliberately misled the committee. well, my reaction is this. jeff sessions was effectively fired because he recused himself. because he followed the advice of ethics lawyers at the justice department. matt whitaker was hired because he talked about how he could
investigation and because i m sure the president was confident he would not recuse himself. the ethics lawyers urged him to do so. he refused. then you have the new attorney general appointed, who refuses to commit to following the advice of ethics lawyers on that same issue, recusal. so is it plausible that the issue of the recusal of the prosecutor in the southern district of new york came up? absolutely. is it i think straining credit utility to think that if he did have conversations about that with others or the president that he would have a failure of recollection about it? that doesn t strike me as too credible. the president s response today, that he hasn t even thought about, not even thought about pardoning paul manafort. not the least bit believable. what i found really striking about the manafort sentencing today, and indeed manafort s conduct generally during this court process, is paul manafort made the calculated decision to