and abby phillip. we ll get to abby in a moment. jamie gangel is also here with me on all of this, to put a button on the whitaker stuff. there were so many falsehoods there when it comes to not knowing whitaker. i think the gentleman doth protest too much. as jim sciutto said, how many times did he say he doesn t know him? here s the reason it s not credible. there is no more important position in the cabinet to donald trump than attorney general. he didn t pick matt whitaker by accident or because he didn t know him. by tradition generally that position would have gone to rod rosenstein. he went around rod rosenstein and he picked matt whitaker on purpose. and as shimon mentioned, our reporting has said and also the new york times has reported that matt whitaker was the eyes and ears of the white house inside the justice department. right.
it shouldn t it be an easy one for a president to answer? it is fair, it is easy, it is the question of the day, because why he picked whitaker is important. i think the gentleman doth protest too much. how many times did he say he didn t know matt whitaker? that s simply not true. number one. number two, it s not credible because this, to donald trump, the attorney general is the most important position right now, because what bothers him more than anything else in the world, except maybe immigration and the wall, not really. it is the mueller investigation. and finally, he picked matt whitaker. nobody else did. donald trump did, out of no place. rod rosenstein was next in line. there were a whole line of people. matt whitaker got scooped out and put in this position. abby s question pushed his button. because it was the question of
illegally in the u.s.a. in broad daylight. weiner s community where he is elected as an official, that s where he works. what was his response? supervisor, we don t want to be a pest. just literally a minute would be great. fox news is not real news and you are not a reporter. i talk to real news only. fox news is not real news. we want to know if you show remorse. are you upset when the president did not reach out to the family. fox news is not real news. so that s his response that fox news is not real news? that is so petty. it is so fourth grade of elected official not to insult fourth graders. this reporter is doing his job. why isn t the city supervisor doing his job to answer to the people about a tragedy about the crime of murder in his city? makes me want to paraphrase shakespeare the gentleman doth protest too much me thinks. in other words, is he hiding
weiner s community where he is elected as an official, that s where he works. what was his response? supervisor, we don t want to be a pest. just literally a minute would be great. fox news is not real news and you are not a reporter. i talk to real news only. fox news is not real news. we want to know if you show remorse. are you upset when the president did not reach out to the family. fox news is not real news. so that s his response that fox news is not real news? that is so petty. it is so fourth grade of elected official not to insult fourth graders. this reporter is doing his job. why isn t the city supervisor doing his job to answer to the people about a tragedy about the crime of murder in his city? makes me want to paraphrase shakespeare the gentleman doth protest too much me thinks. in other words, is he hiding something? something is up. that s my off-the-record