to your point, maybe if mueller decides the better part of val or is to not subpoena the president, it is the end. it is not the end in the sense we can t predict when the special investigation will wrap up. more broadly speaking, even if it ends or if mueller submits a report to whitaker and whitaker doesn t submit it to congress, the house can subpoena anymore they want to ants questions about it. and the judiciary committee can do anything they want if they want to. indeed. phil mudd, we know the president is frustrated by his inability to control the mueller investigation. if the special counsel decides that the written answers are insufficient, he wants more including a sitdown interview with the president, how do you see that unfolding? well, i don t think it would slow down the investigation that much, believe it or not. let me give you a simple reason why. we ve had many dozens of
say one thing and the administration is acting in a different way. and tell me about the differences of in particular the concerns of giuliani and the white house have from the legal developments that we have seen and not just in terms of trying to get ani ally in someone like matthew whitaker as the acting attorney general, but also the revelation that the president in his tweets have made references to the inner workings of the mueller investigation, and a is that problematic for the people at the white house, and do the people express concern that this is another slipup of the president in the same way that the daily caller article made reference no the mueller investigation in reference to whitaker. it is still being determined and people are not sure what the president meant about that and if he is talking to other witnesses or people who have sat before mueller or whether there is something perhaps more s significant about the slip-up, but in the daily caller interview, he
reporting we know that part of it is that he is frustrated with the blowback to whitaker is that he is not senate-confirm and he is saying, well, robert mueller was not senate confirmed in this position either, and of course, he did not have to with be to be special counsel and he was confirmed when he was fbi director, so that is one of the many fronts that the president is dealing with and coming off of the day by day with the delegates loss in the house is worst and a steady stream of bad news for the president, and the white house is girding up for that fight, and now the d democrats are in control of the house of congress and armed with the subpoena, and make it clear that they plan to connect a slew of investigations with the white house that they are on battle footing here getting ready for what is coming in january for when the democrats take power. and ken, i wanted to get some quick reaction from you regarding the new developments regarding federal prosecutors as well as th
state of maryland already sued, charging that the president broke the law, essentially, when he put whitaker in place. now, part of the difference here, of course, is the question of standing. maryland is going to have to prove that they, as a state, were somehow or somehow had a right violated due to whitaker s appointment. that s going to be a challenge for them. the standing argument would be comparatively easy, although, still pretty tricky for members of the senate to make, since they actually do have the constitutional right, as specifically laid out in the constitution, the right and responsibility to provide advice and consent to the president on these cabinet-level positions. so among democrats in the senate, there s a high level of distress. among republicans, of course, there s just, generally speaking, more confidence in president trump and the trump administration and the folks that he s installed. so, yamiche, clearly robert mueller is eating at the president. and the
without senate confirmation. as to whitaker, we have seen some movement among republicans in favor of protect going the special counsel investigation. seu susan collins has come out for that bill. and chuck schumer the democratic leader has demanded wlit kerr e recusal from the russia investigation and threatened to demand a provision on december 7 when the deadline comes up. so we could be looking at another shutdown showdown if there is not a resolution that the republicans can facilitate with the white house. and let me ask you about the idea that the president according to a source could submit written questions potentially or at least finish up writing those answers to raul castro robert mueller as e