whether it goes to a campaign that essentially prevailed and has and the president has is not the president of the united states the question becomes, does it create the appearance that any of the decisions that whitaker would make are being made for inappropriate reasons? it s actually important to our system that we not have the appearance of the fox guarden the henhouse. michael steel, i d say nick ackerman puts it the about a ten saying this guy shouldn t be on the jury, mia i m hearing are about an 8. where are you? i m about a 9. i think for the integrity of the very justice department that he s now in charge of, with these types of questions and the body of evidence, the video as well as audio evidence of his views and his positions and, yes, i get the story, this is when he was a private citizen,
york, obviously, all the way far out in that packed skylean is people marching right now to protect mueller. we ve got a lot in our show as i mentioned. water gate special prosecutor nick acker ann, mia wiley, rnc chairman michael steel. he knows his way around a big march. oh, yeah. it is interesting, nick ackerman, to see that out in the streets. people there want to protect mueller. they don t say at this hour, we re not reporting, any action from whitaker yet. but what do you think is incumbent on the justice department and these professionals who are in the justice department who have a new boss when you see someone who has effectively said in public there is nothing left to do in this probe. if there was no collusion, that s unknown. first of all, you got somebody who should absolutely recuse himself from having anything to do with this investigation. he has taken a very hard stance on what he believes this
even if whether whitaker did not request it. that would be numpblt usually it s the individual, himself, that would request it pr acknowledgment which es in the 81 take of that analysis. that doesn t seem to be in the card right now. so it s un there is no reason to believe he will recuse himself. we don t know what role mr. r s mr. rosenstein will have in the investigation. that s something to watch closely and carefully. look the department of justice needs to enjoy public confidence in its impartiality in its integrity and unless. nowhere is that more essential in an investigation as sensitive and high profile as this, public confidence needs to be at its ze knit in the department s handling of this investigation. there is no way we can get to that point with mr. whitaker in the position he s now been given. hmm. that s strong words coming from you. finally, briefly, if mueller moves forward, the question of
the more important point is whether or not this is technically legal is so out of the ordinary. it is just not proper to install this person not in the line of succession to take over as attorney general. one thing we do know about the president is he is unafraid of moving forward on dubious things. we saw that with dara. he doesn t mind the legal. his whole life has been spent in court. he has the money and now the aur. here s what i don t understand at the white house. if they wanted to appoint somebody to do their bidding on the mueller probe, why appoint somebody who has said how to do their bidding in the mueller probe. matt whitaker was on tv. maybe i could see a scenario where a recess appointment could then constrict the mueller probe and then there s all this. it s such a paper trail.
man and they d meet trump at the white house together, whitaker would smile knowingly to trump as he complained about mueller according to new reporting in the washington post. now this looks like a prelude to whitaker nabbing his boss job. he was the last person to shake jeff session s hand as he departed the doj, stabbing him in the front. taking over his job. the other breaking news is whitaker was probably prejudgeing the announcement of the mueller probe the truth is there was quote no collusion between trump and russia. again, something that is under open investigation. it could be true that there was no collusion. in fact, bob mueller might find that for everyone. but he could find something else. the question is whether this is the right man to oversee that given what he said. i can tell you critics say tonight it is those kind of comments that make whitaker unfit to oversee a probe. democrats warn they will use their new power to investigate