mueller investigation. matthew whitaker is the name you are looking for. they haven t said whether he is supervising, because he was on this network and denigrating it and there is an ethics issue about that. they haven t told us who is doing it. would having an opinion on the case be a basis of recusal? a lot of times they rule if you have taken public positions on something, i recused when i was at the justice department which i had taken public positions on in the past. even though i didn t have any involvement with the cases that were pending. that s a standard thing. the shocking thing is that the justice department went four weeks in. we don t know who is the acting attorney general. is it whitaker or rod rosenstein. michael, this can t be over. in terms of what you are looking for, this, the cohen memo coming out and the manafort one, which
further process. there has to be something else that needs to end, at least on one level. we don t even know what will be redacted like this when we get the cohen memo. right. right. i 100% agree. there s only one way this investigation will wrap up quickly and if it s for some reason donald trump is removed from office, otherwise it will go for awhile. i don t see any way that happens. i will tell you what you could see. there could be something that could trigger the president to say or maybe not at all. maybe it triggers the acting attorney general to say this is crazy. this has gone on far too long and this is silly. this turkey thing they are going off on now, they will spend months and millions on turkey. no thank you. i m shutting this down. then what happens? we don t even know who is the attorney general right now when it comes to supervising the mueller investigation. i mean, the president named this lackey four weeks ago matthew whitaker is the name you are looking
it seems fair to say that it can t be over any time soon in its entirety. as a matter of fact, these redactions speak to further process. something else needs to end. we don t even know what will be redacted like this when we get the cohen memo. i 100% agree. only one way it will bra wrap up quickly and that s if donald trump is removed from office. i don t see any way that happens. what you could see is something could trigger the president to say or maybe not at all. maybe it triggers the acting attorney general to say this is crazy. this has gone on far too long and this is silly. this turkey thing they are going off on now, they will spend months and millions. i m shutting this down. then what happens? we don t even know who is the attorney general right now when it comes to supervising the
whitaker was on this network and denigrating it and there is an ethics issue about that. they haven t told us who is doing it. would having an opinion on the case be a basis of recusal? often types it can be. the ethics oflgs will rule if you have taken public positions on something, i recused when i was at the justice department from guantanamo which i had taken public positions on in the past. even though i didn t have any involvement with the cases that were pending. that s a standard thing. the shocking thing is that the justice department four weeks in, we don t even know who is the acting attorney general. is it whitaker or rod rosenstein. michael, this can t be over. let me ask you, though, in terms of what you are looking for, this, the cohen memo coming out later this week, the manafort one, which do you think is the most interesting? i think the cohen and manafort ones could be more interesting than this. i m hoping there won t be as
speculate. it s pretty clear, exactly. it s interesting that three individuals, flynn, manafort, and cohen, are going to be proceeding forward to sentencing. harris: i don t know if you cut any of it we had a pretty impassioned discussion today with ari fleischer in the middle of outnumbered on what all of this really what is the bottom line? what should we be watching for r in all of this? the bottom line, obviously, is going to be on the three memos that are filed by the government. forget the defense. i read the cohen memo, it lays out their mitigation arguments and so on. they say, interestingly enough, that he did it to protect the president. which, to me, put that to the side. the point is, harris harris: nobody send signals to the president like i didn t completely throw you under the bus. the point is, another general rule is cooperation submissions by the government are usually sealed. i heard you guys adverting to that a little bit. the point is, let s s