phone. the president thought whitaker should do a better job of overseeing the investigators in the probe. during recent congressional testimony whitaker would only say he won t discuss conversations with the president when asked if he spoke to him about the sdny investigation. i want to know whether you talked to president trump at all about the soern district of new york s case involving michael cohen. congresswoman, as i ve mentioned several times today, i am not going to discuss my private conversations with the president of the united states. in contrast he told the committee he never spoke about the mueller probe to president trump. at no time has the white house asked for nor have i provided any promises or commitments concerning the special counsel s investigation or any other investigation. but this latest reporting about trump fits into a pattern where he believes officials in doj roles should show loyalty to him and do his bidding. as you will recall the president
probe. this is innocence is in respons reporting that he did make that ask because he viewed berman as an am lilly. he was upset about the cohen probe and how it inchmplicated and that he did talk to whitaker with about it over the phone. he thought that he should control the investigators in the probe. during recent congressional testimony, whilt ketaker would and i that he won t discuss conversations with the president. i want to know whether you talked to president trump at all about the southern strict of new york s case involving michael cohen. congresswoman, as i ve mentioned several times today, i m not going to discuss my private conversations with the president of the united states. reporter: in contrast he told the committee he never spoke about the mueller probe to president trump. at no tirm has the white
phone. the president thought that whitaker should do a better job controlling the investigators in the probe that whitaker oversaw as acting attorney general. and if you read that justice department statement carefully, there isn t a denial that president trump and whitaker discussed the sdny probe. and during recent congressional testimony, whitaker would only say he wouldn t discuss conversations with the president when he was asked whether he did speak to him about the sdny investigation. in contrast, he told the committee he never spoke about the mueller probe to president trump. so you look at the comparison, how he answered those two questions about the mueller probe, saying he never talked about it with trump, compared to sdny saying he s not going to talk about those conversations. this latest reporting, erin, about trump, fits into the pattern where he believes officials in the justice department roles should show loyalty to him and do his bidding. as you ll recall, the presid
sources say that trump was upset about the cohen probe and how it implicated him in the payments to two women during the election. you will recall that, and that he did spoke with whitaker about it over the phone. the president thought whitaker should do a better job of krog the investigators in the probe that he oversaw as acting attorney general. during recent congressional testimony whitaker would only say he won t discuss conversations with the president when asked if he spoke to him about the sdny investigation. i want to know whether you talked to president trump at all about the southern district of new york s case involving michael cohen. congresswoman, as i ve mentioned several times today, i am not going to discuss my private conversations with the president of the united states. in contrast he told the committee he never spoke about the mueller probe to president trump. at no time has the white house asked for, nor have i provided, any promises or commitments concern
suffer when the government is shut down. i hope we can unwind some of of that rhetoric. the people both parties have used for years and years about how these are bad people. they work for us. another thing this week, mitch mcconnell said my god, do not give them another week off. don t make voting day a holiday. good lord, we wouldn t want to help out the federal workers. no way. that does it for us this friday. stephanie ruhle picks up the coverage right now. thanks, mika. i m stephanie ruhle. this morning, i ve got a lot to cover. starting with a defiant president trump getting a wide ranging interview on everything from the mueller probe to potential 2020 employees. plus, why he thinks the shutdown negotiations with speaker pelosi are a waste of time. she s just playing games. she ll be begging for a wall. she will say mr. president, please, please give us a wall. i doubt that. treasure trove.