matt whitaker to interfere in the investigation of his personal attorney, michael cohen, an investigation that implicated the president himself. there s a lot of fake news out there. no, i didn t. reporter: the president s appointment of whitaker was controversial from the start. whitaker was a staunch trump supporter and harsh critic of special counsel robert mueller. mr. president, what do you say to all the criticism of matt whitaker and the calls for him to recuse himself, given what he s said about the russia investigation? well, matt whitaker, i don t know matt whitaker. reporter: but the times reports that not long after whitaker got the job, the president asked him to put a person he believed would be more sympathetic in charge of the investigation, specifically, u.s. attorney geoffrey berman, who had recused himself because of his ties to the president s lawyer, rudy giuliani. it never happened. at his contentious hearing before the house judiciary committee earlier
buenos aires. reporter: after the summit the president will head back to the united states. he ll skip the first day of the peace forum. chris? chris: john: thank you. let s bring in kellyanne conway, counselor to the president. welcome back to fox news sunday. let s start with the president s appointment of matthew whitaker as acting attorney general. here is what he said about whitaker friday and what he said about him last month. president trump: i don t know matt whitaker. he worked for jeff sessions. i can tell you matt whitaker is a great guy. i know matt whitaker. chris: does the president know
naught whitaker and did he know before appointing him that he was a critic of the special counsel s investigation. kellyanne: the president has gone the to know him the last year as he was work at the department of justice for 13 months as cheech of staff to attorney general sessions. the president has dealt with matt whitaker in many different situations in the white house. i watched them interact. i watched in whitaker brief the president. chris: did he know he was such a sharp why it i can of the mueller investigation. kellyanne: i am not aware of that. it s not clear to me that in whitaker has been briefed on the mueller investigation. he was chief much staff to a recused attorney general. it s the deputy attorney general and his chief and his team who
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would be in the senate. josh: the reaction would be horrible. but i think one of the reasons why mcconnell thinks it s unnecessary is because it is. what we have seen the last year and a half, the united states and the congress allowing his investigation to go through. you now have a democratic house of representatives. this has been operating since may 17, 2017. the idea that you can have matt whitaker or anybody else just show up and shut this down belies the fact we have accumulated a year and a half of information. nobody is going to shut this down and i think mueller will conclude this. chris: the friday after a big mid-term election. the democrats have taken back the house, and it looks like nancy pelosi will be the speaker of the house. here is how pelosi reacted to president trump and talking about the fact the democrats are