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
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
myself from any existing or future investigations of any matter relating in anyway to the campaigns for president of the united states. that was march 2017 which ban the the rosenstein era for this probe. he was the one approving mueller s big moves. he announced the indictments. today we re on the first full day of what is the whitaker era. he would step out, not rosenstein, that s a striking contrast, given how the two men have spoken about the fundament also of this russia probe. the department of justice is not going to be extorted. we re going to do what s required by the rule of law. i think what ultimately the president will start doing is putting pressure on rod rosenstein who is in charge of this investigation. the indictment alleges the russian conspirators want to promote discord in the united states and undermine public confidence in democracy. we must not allow them to succeed. i can see a scenario where
he s a senior national correspondent for bloomberg business week and also the author of the new week delve s bargain. steve bannon, donald trump and the storming of the presidency. you laughed, josh, but that s why you re the expert on steve bannon right there. great book, first of off. congratulations. i know how hard it is to crash something like that and get it out as quickly as you did. talking about today s headlines first, spicer s resignation, is this good news or bad news for steve bannon? i think it s bad news for steve bannon, because bannon had fostered despite all the early drama and headlines, ban on had fogs erred a pretty good relationship of the rnc crowd of sean spicer and reince priebus who he supposedly was battling early on. so the fact that this move was made apparently over his objections i think is definitely bad news for him. so is he in jeopardy right now? everybody is always in jeopardy in trump s inner circle. good point. it seems like to me.