thank god somebody is in there to protect our trump and to protect himself from this evil zero nothingness of an investigation that they re calling a witch-hunt that they feel like they are searching for any lig little anything to try to get our trump out. . i wonder what happened next. there are plenty of questions that have been raised about the ethics of this. matt whitacre said he will seek the counsel of advisers within the justice department. what happened as you see it here? as we ve all just discussed, he s incrediblien conflicted. he is not the right person for the job. he has made his opinions public in terms of how he feels about the russia investigation. but, you know, all this talk of loyalty from president trump, you know, i hate for someone to remind him, this is not an episode of the sopranos. the attorney general is not your defense attorney. his job is to uphold the laws of
over the country is hurricane michael, churning across the florida panhandle and alabama and georgia. we re going to get a live update on the state of the storm coming up in just a couple of minutes here. unusually, though, for a day in which a huge category 4, almost category 5 hurricane hit the continental united states, unusually, this has also been an otherwise busy news day. usually, a storm this big hitting the united states broadside would eclipse all other news. but today, a lot of other stuff has been happening besides. so we re going to be covering the storm. we re also going to get to a bunch of these other stories alongside our hurricane coverage. you should know, for example, that tonight the washington post is reporting that the president has talked recently to the man who is now serving as chief of staff to the attorney general, jeff sessions. his name is matt whitacre. matt whitacre made news when everybody thought rod rosenstein was going to be fired as the deput
overseer of the mueller investigation. matt whitaker, that day that everybody thought rosenstein was out, he was named by the justice departments a the person who was going to get appointed to replace rod rosenstein had he been fired. that was really controversial for a few different reasons. number one, rosenstein wasn t getting fired after all that day. so it s weird that the justice department wrote a press release about who was replacing him and then that leaked to the press. that was weird. also weird, matt whitaker is not in the line of succession at the justice department to take over the deputy attorney general job. so inserting him into the rosenstein job, had rosenstein been fired, that would have been strange. that would have been the white house inserting itself into the justice department to hand pick the person to take over that important job. the fact that matt whitaker, until recently, was a cable news
but today, a lot of other stuff has been happening besides. so we re going to be covering the storm. we re also going to get to a bunch of these other stories alongside our hurricane coverage. you should know, for example, that tonight the washington post is reporting that the president has talked recently to the man who is now serving as chief of staff to the attorney general, jeff sessions. his name is matt whitacre. matt whitacre made news when everybody thought rod rosenstein was going to be fired as the deputy attorney general and the overseer of the mueller investigation. matt whittaker, that day that everybody thought rosenstein was out, he was named by the justice departments a the person who was going to get appointed to replace rod rosenstein had he been fired. that was really controversial for a few different reasons. number one, rosenstein wasn t getting fired after all that day. so it s weird that the justice department wrote a press release about who was replacing him
pundit, whose main gig on tv was attacking the robert mueller investigation, that made it seem clear to a lot of people why the white house might have wanted to pick him exactly to insert into the rod rosenstein job, presumably so whittaker could hamstring the mueller investigation he s been so critical of and protect the president from that high post at the justice department. well, tonight, what the washington post is reporting is that whitaker is in talks with the president to replace a high ranking justice department official, only this time the post reports that the president is talking to him about him about him replacing jeff sessions, the attorney general. not rod rosenstein, the deputy attorney general. trying to make matt whitaker attorney general of the united states, or even acting attorney general of the united states, that would be a spectacularly radical move by the white house.