issue a subpoena if he chooses not to appear or not answer the question. a wide range of questions democrats want to ask him, including conversations he may have had with the president, mueller investigation, discussions that he may or may not have had and not recusing himself from the mueller probe, and the fact that federal prosecutors implicated the president in multiple crimes. they want to know if those discussions occurred. sending that letter to nadler today, saying this, from the assistant attorney general steven boyd, the acting attorney general will testify at no time did the white house ask for or did the acting attorney general provide any promises or commitments concerning the special counsel s investigation. we do not believe, however, the committee may legitimately expect the acting attorney general to discuss his communications with the president. now the president himself was asked about the standoff today. he seemed to not be too
sharing with the public initial that was privately discussed or based on his knowledge of the investigation. but i will say to the point of him sweating under the headlights, wait for next week because that is when the judiciary committee and the house is due to bring whitaker in. when i talked to nadler s staff and the lawmakers who are going to be launching a lot of these investigations, they say that the starting point here is bring whitaker in and to ask him specifically what his communications have been with the white house about the mueller investigation. they say that the department of justice has seen really no oversight for the past 15 months. so they want to get under the hood and find out exactly what s been going on at the department of justice and specifically regarding sessions being forced out and what whitaker s communications have been with the white house. all right. thank you so much, heidi. i got a problem with our next
testify to the judiciary committee about his conversations with president trump. chairman nadler sent a letter to nadler today telling him exactly what the most important questions will be, and every question is a heavily loaded question. for example, on january 18th the special counsel issued a rare statement describing some aspects of the buzzfeed story as inaccurate. did you have any communication with the white house about the buzzfeed report or the decision of the special counsel s office to issue its subsequent statement? if so, with whom? what was discussed? leading off our discussion now tim o brien, and mimi rocah, both msnbc contributors. mimi i want to start at the end there with these amazing questions jerry nadler has already put in writing publicly to matthew whitaker the acting attorney general. what he seem tuesday be getting
chairman of the house judiciary committee, jerry nadler, is bringing in acting attorney general matthew whitaker to testify to the judiciary committee about his conversations with president trump. chairman nadler sent a letter to nadler today telling him exactly what the most important questions will be, and every question is a heavily loaded question. for example, on january 18th the special counsel issued a rare statement describing some aspects of the buzzfeed story as inaccurate. did you have any communication with the white house about the buzzfeed report or the decision of the special counsel s office to issue its subsequent statement? if so, with whom? what was discussed? leading off our discussion now tim o brien, and mimi rocah, both msnbc contributors. mimi i want to start at the end there with these amazing questions jerry nadler has already put in writing publicly to matthew whitaker the acting attorney general. what he seem tuesday be getting
is offering a legal analysis to the memo. the key points he makes is that the just department held this. there is established case law. this is essential to knowing, you know, vetting the sources of these applications would they have had the application voided. he makes the point that christopher steele, his expertise on russia was so strong it would have outweighed any concerns about politics being involved. we haven t seen tom of a response to nadler s memo just