Whitakers ability to lead the attorney general is unconstitutional. They say it has denied each plaintiff the opportunity to cast a binding vote on whether to consent to defendant whitaker serving as a principal officer. Senator plumblumenthal, whiteho and hirono are all part of the committee that appoints president ial nominees and whitaker skipped that process. The lawsuit lists multiple other problems with whitaker, including his public criticisms of the russia investigation. So lets start at the white house, with our correspondent there, kaitlan collins. And kaitlan, that the doj just last week issued a defense as to why they believe that whitakers appointment is valid. Is that the same defense that the white house is using today . Reporter it is the same defense. And thats what theyre arguing. And weve seen President Trump take his own route here by saying, well, Matt Whitakers not confirmed by the senate, but neither was the special counsel, Robert Mueller, even though, of course
Translator i believe this is an expression of his willingness to eliminate all the unfortunate past and open a new future. Stepping across that line was a great honor. A lot of progress has been made. A lot of friendships have been made. And this has been in particular a great friendship. Its the third time the two leaders have met in person after the 50minute ad hoc summit, trump claimed Real Progress in their Nuclear Talks. We just had a very, very good meeting with chairman kim. We each agreed we would designate a team, and the team will try and work out some details. Again, speed is not the object. We want to see if we can do a comprehensive good deal. Big stuff. Pretty complicated. But not as complicated as people think. Cnns Paula Hancocks is in south korea. When are the implications of this historic meeting . Reporter well, manu, what we were promised this morning was effectively a hand chicago shake or twominute chat. What we saw was more than that. More than an order the two l