terms with what russia did. or with the intervention. and that to me is the big issue. the question is, okay, mr. trump, why did you say this wasn t happening during the campaign after you were briefed that it was happening. let s talk about just where this investigation is going to go, paul, because you have a.g. whitaker who did not recuse and who was advised that he should but didn t. and a new potential a.g. that will be put ford. he criticized an aspect of the mueller problem. he wrote a memo saying part of the probe is invalid. how can he be confirmed? that is a political decision. august he needs is the 60 votes and he will be in that position. and this is a huge story. 51 votes. so again, he has the republican
officials at the justice department advising whitaker about that. a rod rosenstein is currently overseeing the investigation, saying today it doesn t matter who s in charge. we continue to manage the investigation the way that we have in the past. it has been handled appropriately. bought me a letter or a rod rosenstein, whitaker, bill barr. it has been handled appropriately. dana: catherine herridge is live in washington. this story broke this morning, they have revealed more details about the deliberations, painting a more nuanced picture of the decision-making. the ethics review concluded that there was no actual conflict for matt whitaker to oversee the mueller problem. however, a senior ethics official was concerned over the objects that whitaker made previous negative comments about the case. recusal was a close call, and
so when i saw flynn s sentencing memos, that jumped out at me right away, this is not going to sit well with judge sullivan. but then i tried to put myself in flynn s lawyer s shoes and you figure even the government is not even the government is not recommending my client go to prison. so maybe if i go in and i flick at this conspiracy theory, maybe i can get president trump s attention, maybe i m playing for a pardon here. it s sort of a gamble and i think what you re seeing today is the jij wudge was having non that. thank you for your analysis, ken dill annian and matt ka puzo with the new york times. what s clear in all of this is the president is watching very closely. trump spent his event-free morning tweeting furiously a series of taxes on the mueller problem and big tech. his key tweet was well wishes for his former national security
a record $107 million, whether some of that money was received illegally or used illegally. there s apparently a criminal investigation now underway. well, i think what you re seeing is professional prosecutors who have evidence suggesting that there may be crimes and they are following that evidence and, again, it s another shoe that has dropped. it seems like every day there s another revelation of at least hey alleged improprieties by the trump administration or his campaign, and and all of this can t be just sort of made up. thereto seems to be a consistent finding of impropriety related to the administration. this is the u.s. attorney s office for the southern district of new york. this is not part of the mueller problem, the special counsel s probe. right. we also learned today, cnn confirmed, that president trump, then candidate trump, back in 2015, was in the room when his
and you don t have the votes. if you had the votes, you wouldn t need to negotiate with the democrats. so this is a republican party problem, is it not? not in the senate. we ve got to have ten democrats on the senate. i understand, in the house. you seem to have a problem in the house. i can t comment on the house, but it doesn t the house can do what it wants but it doesn t matter if it doesn t pass the senate. we obviously have to get ten votes in the senate. i think some of my democratic colleagues are in perfectly good faith, they just don t think we need a wall. i think others others just s see it as a political issue and think they re winning on it politically and others who just don t want to do it because they don t like president trump, period, end of discussion. should the president actually offer something? if want to negotiate, you usually got to offer something if you want something else in return, especially if you ve lost leverage, which he did in the electi