has told associates that the justice department will not cut the budget for special counsel robert mueller s investigation into election interferences said a person familiar with the matter. that s comforting. not cutting the budget. that s one of the ways mueller could be knee-capped. however, we have a different matt whitaker in previous job which was the television pundit, rather than 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 reduces the budget so low that his investigation grinds to an almost a halt. so mike barnicle, i ask you, now he said he could see a scenario. he didn t say he would advise, embrace or enact that scenario but he did float the scenario by which you can essentially starve mueller. there s now reporting that suggests he s not going to embrace that proposal, but do
has been overseeing the mueller investigation. if you are talking. naught whitaker s statements as a private citizen a year and a half ago i don t think that disqualifies somebody from being the chief law enforcement officer at the department of justice which is an executive function. chris: whitaker has had a lot to say about mueller. here he is about a possible way to shut down the special counsel. 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 reduces the budget so low the investigation grind to almost a halt. chris: here is whitaker on mueller looking into president trump s finances. i think that is a red line. it s beyond the scope of the letter the deputy attorney general issued and appointed
they have all learned james comey s lesson of dealing with trump world. write down everything they say immediately after the meeting. when matthew whitaker watches deputy attorney general rod rosenstein or any of the other lawyers he s surrounded by all day leave the room after a meeting, they are all going to their desks to write down exactly what they just heard matth matthew whitaker say. they all know they are going to need those notes someday. they all know that matthew whitaker is going to spend many, many hours under oath against his will in the house of representatives next year and possibly in a grand jury room with a special prosecutor. we know what matthew whitaker wants to do for donald trump because he has said so publicly. he wants to end the special prosecutor s investigation. i could 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
carlos curbelo. mike coffman. too bad, mike. mia love gave me no love. and she lost. most consequentially less than 24 hours after polls closed, mr. trump fired his attorney general, replacing jeff sessions with loyalist matt whitaker, lashing out at reporters who asked if he wants his new acting attorney general to rein in robert mueller s russia probe. what a stupid question that is. what a stupid question. the president denied his relationship with whitaker. i don t know matt whitaker. but a month ago i know matt whitaker. as a tv pundit, whitaker has said mr. mueller s investigation could be turning into a witch hunt and floated ways to weaken it. i 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.
as sessions temporary replacement, matt whitaker, has made too many problematic comments about the russia probe to oversee it. i could see a scenario where jeff sessions is replaced with a recess appointment and the attorney general doesn t fire bob mueller but he reduces the budget so low that his investigation grinds to almost a halt. reporter: democrats want a recusal. the president says this sort of thing always happens to his appointees. this only comes up because anybody that works for me, they do a number on them. but matt whitaker is a very smart man. he is a very respected man in the law enforcement community, very respected, at the top of the line. reporter: he also told reporters on friday he doesn t know mr. whitaker but in october he told fox news that he did. i can tell you, matt whitaker s a great guy. i knows matt whitaker. i don t know matt whitaker. matt whitaker worked for jeff