dramatic actions given that he s in that acting role but the quickest way to resolve this is to get a permanent attorney general in place and the president has a lot of good choices in that regard. eric: we will get to that in a moment after the commercial but in terms of his criticism of the mueller probe, is raising the issue of whether or not the president can even be indicted while in office and saying that the mueller probe should be limited and reportedly said it s crazy. you don t think that affected the president s picking of his choice at all? well, i obviously don t know what the full reasoning was for picking mr. whittaker, former u.s. attorney and as we know there are people that say things outside of office or before they are appointed, once they are in direction they are following direction of administration, i would be surprised if we saw any dramatic changes to the direction of the mueller probe. eric: we will take that up in just a moment and alsoly ask you
they would have intervened very quickly had there been a notion or idea of wrong-doing. last word. i would have to say there s been a lack of transparency in the process and again, i m not 100% sure we re going to have the outcome that is completely fair and honest. we ll see when the outcome comes. certainly all eyes are on florida yet again. hopefully no hanging chads, remember those after we went through that in 2000. we ll see, the recount is on, has been ordered. don t remind us. i know. we ll see how this goes. thanthank you both. thank you so much. arthel: chad might in arizona. there s a hotly contested arizona senate race there still undecided. the latest tally shows kyrsten sinema increasing her lead over republican martha mcsally. election officials say they may not have a winner until next week. garrett teny is in washington to fill us in. hey, garrett. reporter: as of friday, there were roughly 272,000 votes that
you would have to ask director comey that. i think there was discussion i remember in particular some of it was in the context of reporting from mr. giuliani and others talking about connections to new york. i don t want to scapegoat new york because a lot of people were aware of it and there were concerns just about the number of folks. but with regard to mr. comey my recollection is that he was aware of the concerns but i was not privy to discussions he had with the attorney general or other concerns he may have had outside of my presence. with regard to mr. giuliani, on october 25 then trump campaign adviser promised a quote/unquote pretty big surprise coming up in the campaign. on october 28 giuliani claimed to be in contact with former agents and a quote/unquote few active agents who obviously don t want to identify themselves. there was a concern that there is a deep and visceral hatred
you d have to ask director comey that. there was discussion and i remember some of it was in the context of reporting from mr. giuliani and others talking about connections to new york. but again, i don t want to scapegoat new york because a lot of people were aware of it and there were concerns just about the number of folks. but with regard to mr. comey, my recollection is that he was aware of those concerns but i was not privy to discussions he had with the attorney general or other concerns he might have had outside of my presence or conversation. now, with regard to mr. giuliani, on october 25th, then trump campaign advisor rudy giuliani promised a, quote unquote, pretty big surprise coming up in the campaign. on october 28th, giuliani claimed to be in contact with former agents and a, quote unquote, few active agents who obviously don t want to identify themselves. let me make sure i have this right. there was a concern that there was a deep and visceral hatred toward secreta
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