to discuss his interactions with the president, they grilled him on a host of issues. in your final week, keep your hands off the mueller investigation. are you over seeing a witchhunt? it would be inappropriate to talk about an ongoing investigation. i want to know if you talked to president trump lat about the southern district of new york s case involving michael cohen? as i ve mentioned several times today i am not going to discuss my private conversations with the president of the united states. so yes or no no matter what the question is. swalwell pressed for views on the special counsel. can you say right now mr. president, the bob mueller is honest and not conflicted? i m not a puppet. i have answered your question as to what i believe about the special counsel. thank you much.
swalwell joins us from the hill. did you get a sense he was afraid to say can anything good about mueller? i did and good evening, chris. i got the sense this was a man who very much wanted to please donald trump. the only person who he considered important in this hearing as he eknew trump would be watching. and i got the sgot the sense he afraid of him. they pressed that the michael cohen indictments came out and he was very evasive and i got the sense this guy, like somany of them, irthat they re afraid trump. i said is mueller honest? he said yes. i said is mueller conflicted and i said well, can you say for the
know, to me, in his state of the union speech, he rightfully talked about nicolas maduro and some of the things he s done. he should have also talked about what has been taking place there and the guy he s go having to a summit with, kim jong-un, who is another guy who s killed a lot of folks and opresses his people. he should have talked about all of them. thank you so much for coming on. i m a huge fan of your wisdom. your newspaper, by the way, has been fabulous. i love the way they ve stuck behind and don t walk away. he was our friend and colleague and the fact that the paper stuck by him and is insisting on accountability is something we re all really proud of. president trump s hand
attorney general have you ever been asked to approve any action or request by the special counsel? mr. chairman, i see that your five minutes is up and so we i am here voluntarily. we have agreed to five-minute round. what s he? an egg timer? he s acting attorney general matt whitaker sparing there with nadler. the question on many minds of democrats has he, the ag, talked to president trump about the special counsel s prob. he insisted he hasn t talken any actions to interfere with it. we have followed the special counsel s regulations to a tee. there has been no eevent, no decision that has required me to take any action and i have not interfered in any way with the special counsel s investigation.
the alliance between president trump and dave idpicker isn t the only motive jeff bezos suggestests for the alleged blackmail. he suggests picker s ties to saudi arabia could be a factor. for reasons still to be better understood, the saudi angle seem to hit a particularly sensitive nerve. he brought one of saudi crown prince s advisors to an oval office meeting all while pker quote was considering ex2357bding his media and events business to saudi arabia. he posted a propaganda spread dedicated to praising saudi arabia and crown prince mohammed bin salman. this is the same crown prince that our own cia said ordered a butchering of jamal khashoggi last year. he s guilty.