spoke to a number of people in the room who heard his words firsthand. it s amazing, elise, because, i mean, you worked with john bolton, you know that he had different kinds of relationships, let s say, with the state department and with the white house, leading up to being appointed as u.n. ambassador, never confirmed but he served as a recess appointment. he worked with him at the nsc, he seemed to have been very forthcoming with the morgan stanley people. i would not want to mess with john bolton, period, especially in a bureaucratic infight and especially in this war that s seeping into the press. something i found interesting about carol and stephanie s reporting was that bolton really teased what s going to be in his book. he sounded very forthright. what he said was, i don t think we should downplay it all, it
jeff sessions is replaced with a recess appointment and that attorney general doesn t fire bob mueller, but he just reduces a budget so low that his investigation grinds to almost a halt. that was july 2017. just two months later, whitaker was named chief of staff to then-ag jeff sessions. later taking on the job of acting ag when sessions was fired by the president. so it sure sounds like the president got the message. and then there s brett kavanaugh, who wrote in 2009, we should not burden a sitting president with civil suits, criminal investigations, or criminal prosecutions. and don t forget william barr, wrote a lengthy memo against prosecuting the president for obstruction of justice, which sure didn t hurt his chances of getting the job of attorney general. some have said on both sides
circle or at the white house about my views of the special counsel s investigations? correct. when i was a private citizen and not at the department of justice? correct. no, i did not. okay, look, i have pointed this out before, if you watch this show. and i think it s it bears repeating, so pay close attention. whitaker didn t have to talk to the president about mueller, at least not in person or on the phone or whatever. you know how he got his messages across? right here on the live tv! right here on this show. i can see a scenario where jeff sessions is replaced with a recess appointment and that attorney general doesn t fire bob mueller, but he just reduces a budget so low that his investigation grinds to almost a halt. that was july 2017. just two months later, whitaker was named chief of staff to then-a.g. jeff sessions. later taking on the job of acting ag when sessions was fired by the president. so it sure sounds like the president got the message. and then th
executive privilege. did you do that? congresswoman, just to be clear, you re asking me whether or not i talked with anybody essentially in the president s circle or at the white house about my views of the special counsel s investigation. correct. when i was a private citizen, not at the department of justice. correct. no, i did not. okay. so let s face it. he didn t have to talk to the president about mueller. he didn t have to. he got the message across the same way just about everybody does with this president. you know what he did? he talked to him through the tv, specifically on this show. matt whitaker, july 2017, more than a year before he was appointed acting a.g. roll it. i can see a scenario where jeff sessions is replaced with a recess appointment, and that attorney general doesn t fire bob mueller, but he just reduces the budget so low that his investigation grinds to almost a halt. just two months later, whitaker was named chief of
so it is not covered by executive privilege. did you do that? congresswoman, just to be clear, you re asking me whether or not i talked with anybody essentially in the president s circle or at the white house about my views of the special counsel s investigation. correct. when i was a private citizen, not at the department of justice. correct. no, i did not. okay. so let s face it. he didn t have to talk to the president about mueller. he didn t have to. he got the message across the same way just about everybody does with this president. you know what he did? he talked to him through the tv, specifically on this show. matt whitaker, july 2017, more than a year before he was appointed acting a.g. roll it. i can see a scenario where jeff sessions is replaced with a recess appointment, and that attorney general doesn t fire bob mueller, but he just reduces the budget so low that his investigation grinds to almost a