probe. i will play two comments he made in december of 2017. the first one he seems to be trying to limit the scope of the probe. the second one, he seems to be supporting the mueller probe. listen to this. i can see a scenario where jeff sessions is replaced with a recess appointment and that attorney general doesn t fire bob mueller but just reduces the budget so low that his investigation grinds to almost a halt. i don t see a current reason or good reason that bob mueller shouldn t stay in this special counsel role. you decide. democrats will press him. toobin, let me begin with you. democrats really want to know and they sent some of the questions in a letter to him in january. about whitaker and conversations with the president about the mueller probe, et cetera. will those conversations be covered by executive privilege? well, the courts have always been reluctant to define the
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. it would seem as if, congressman swalwell, mr. whitaker had some preconceived about the special counsel, about the special counsel s role, about its investigative powers. are you or one of your colleagues perhaps going to ask him about some of his prior statements? yes, craig. and it s okay to have preconceived opinions. it s america, he can express whatever he wants. the question we have is of all the lawyers in all the land, why is he in this position? couldn t they have found somebody who didn t have preconceived opinions about the mueller investigation? and that also goes for mr. barr. again, is this the only conservative lawyer in the united states, or could we find someone who s never written an unsolicited opinion about the mueller investigation? it would also seem to me, just, again, t
with that. one of the reasons people are so concerned about whitaker is because he made comments like these right here on my show. watch this, guys. yeah. so i could see a scenario where jeff sessions is replaced with a recess appointment. and the attorney general doesn t fire bob mueller but reduces the budget so low that his his investigation grinds to an absolute almost a halt. so, jack, i think he touched on it a little bit today. i don t know, i have more information, whatever. do you think his previous comments like this, do they taint anything he does in relation to mueller? sure they do. i mean, they taint his involvement. but his involvement has been tainted, i think, for a long time here. the idea that they can all of a sudden begin to reconsider decisions that were made, that were approved by rod rosenstein when mueller went to him and asked for agreement to to
beginning, i m going to answer the same way. he s closer to being done clearly. as you see from the pace of the indictments. but he just indicted roger stone. for all we know, roger stone is going to start talking to mueller. there s no way that could be done. we ve got the strange case in the supreme court with the unnamed defendant. there s too many pieces that need to be resolved in court before we can anticipate the mueller report. and i think whitaker just found himself answering a question where he would have been smarter to just say i m not answering these questions. it shows his unsophistication and i think his you know, the fact that he should not be attorney general. just period. and everyone, i think, agrees with that. one of the reasons people are so concerned about whitaker is because he made comments like this on my show. watch this, guys. yeah. so i could see a scenario where jeff sessions is replaced with a recess appointment. and the attorney general doesn t fi
she was unable to get better congress so barack obama appointed her to the eeoc. couldn t get her through the senate when harry reid was majority leader so he did recess appointment, she was subsequently, after harry reid changed levels were only a majority were needed for presidential nominee, she has been controversial even to her own party. she has taken positions that are 180 ° from the trump administration when it comes to religious freedom. and so i applaud mike lee, i spoke with a number of times about this case and applaud him for taking a stand in defense of religious liberty. sheer fact in your of the past, the morocco barack obama euro hostility to religious freedom, we don t need her on the eeoc leading that commission forward. you know how this works. the president has the opportunity to appoint members, 5 members of the eeoc to represent his majority party but he goes to the democrats for their nominations and