report and now a new face is in charge of the justice department. after attorney general jeff sessions resignation at the request of the president. so let s look at what we know about the acting attorney general matthew whitaker. all right. from 2004 to 2009 he served as the u.s. attorney for the southern district of iowa, later becoming a managing partner at an iowa law firm before joining the administration in 2014. he unsuccessfully ran to be the junior senator from iowa on a very conservative platform. whitaker has been outspoken about his feelings on the mueller investigation. in an op-ed that was written for the hill he defended the president s firing of former fbi director james comey and in another one written for cnn he argued that mueller looking at the president s business or finances, quote, raises serious concern that the special counsel s investigation was a mere witch-hunt. on cnn he suggested that a new attorney general, ironically now him, could simply starve
past year to hear the president, laura, almost on a weekly, sometimes on ona daily basis publicly humiliate the he wrote an op-ed last august mueller s investigation of trump is going too far. he said the president is absolutely correct in thinking that the red line of the finances would actually be in fact too far. he said this, any investigation into president trump s finances or the finances of his family would require mueller to return to rod rosenstein for additional authority under mueller s appointment. if he were it continue to investigate the financial relationship, this would raise a serious concern that the special counsel was a mere witch hunt. this man is now replaced by jeff
he wrote an op-ed late last year where he says mueller s investigation of trump s finances is quote going too far. he says mueller has come up to a red line of the 2016 investigation that he s dangerously close to crossing. if he s willing to investigate the election-meddling this would brought a concern that the special counsel investigation is a mere witch hunt. now we know the person who wrote those words could my minute now depending on what happens to rosenstein, he could over authorities overall of those in the justice department which we believe it is an active justice
okay, well, the white house keep in mind and just look at this. and there s a lot of issues with this, but in particular referring to the hacking as alleged, that is not the word that trump s own team has used when it comes to russian hacking. in fact, his own intelligence chiefs have said definitively russia is hacking the election and russia is doing it again now. and i participated in that 2017 work. i stood by it then and standby it now and i agree with director pompeo this is not going to change or stop. yes, it is not going to change or stop. throughout the entire community we have not seen any evidence of any significant change from last year. and by the way, when they say it s consistent with what they ve been saying all the way along, it s far from consistent with what the president of the united states has been saying all along. in case you forgot, here you go. maybe there is no hacking. but they always blame russia.
know, i said such good things about you and blames it on it on fake news. if i walk up to you in the morning and say i want to apologize to you, and i said some great things about you in that article that they didn t publish, and i want to apologize to you, that is an apology. i don t understand why everyone criticizes the president saying he doesn t apologize enough, that he isn t humble enough. he comes out in a press conference in front of the world and said i saw her this morning and one of the first things i told her is i want to apologize. people then say this is not an apology when he uses the actual word apologize. he did use the word apology. he also called it fake news. but does he have a point that he says the first thing i said was an apology? sure, he has a point in that the trump has hardly, i think this might be the second time after he was forced the first