shrugging off a saudi murder because he thinks it will keep oil prices low? if we broke with them i think your oil prices would go through the roof. and with six days until the runoff, by democrats they they have a shot in mississippi. for anyone that was offended for my by my comments, i certainly apologize. when all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. every day we learn more about the man personally installed by president trump two weeks ago on constitutionally dubious grounds to run the justice department. and every day the details that we are learning about matthew whitaker are more troubling, indeed more obviously disqualifying. here s the latest. after two weeks in which the justice department refused to hand over whitaker s standard ethics financial disclosure, it was finally released late yesterday. and it appears it has been
revised at least five times. one can only imagine what exactly was going on with those documents during those two weeks. it s not a crazy question given what we ve also learned about a strange financial chapter in whitaker s career when he headed up a dark money nonprofit career that reported whitaker as the sole employee where he made $400,000 a year over three years. it came from a group called fact whose donors are shrouded in secrecy. it s a nonprofit, but you can get an idea from whitaker s tv appearances in his capacity as its leader what he was up to. let s all be honest here. you know, sort of she had a server that she controlled. they reviewed all the e-mails now i heard over the weekend. so what we d really like to see is all of the e-mails. we ve got a pending request with the state department regarding his e-mails and his interactions with the clinton foundation. it sure looks like a nonprofit created to launder right wing attacks through the name of a punitively indepe
this seems to be quintessentially faithless execution of the president s office. marcie, it does seem significant to me that he gets his big credentialing card punched as a bush u.s. attorney during the time that we know that there was a lot of political manipulation of the u.s. attorneys. right. i mean, he was sort of an early adopter for that kind of political attack. and as soon as he was named people in iowa were like, yeah, he tried to take out the democratic opposition by going after this openly gay lawmaker and trumping up this case and trying to get him to inform on fellow democrats. and when it finally went to trial it took 25 minutes for the jury to decide that it was a bogus case. so it was a bogus case, but even after that whitaker was like, yeah, i still you know, i m okay with what i just did, which was a clear politicization of the prosecutorial process. good point.