Assert themselves. Well, and here we are. Guys, i dont even know where to begin. That is all we have for mtp daily tonight. In the midst of the Breaking News, the house is voting right now on the key vote that will apparently tell us more about whether there is a shut down coming and we have this National Security imploegsion. And our Breaking News continues with ari melber. I dont know if i dont know if Breaking News is enough to describe everything that is happening right now, but the Trump White House might be unraveling. I heard you say nightmare and unraveling. We have the language here, bry let you go, of general mattis say you have the right to have a Secretary Of Defense that whose views are better aligned with yours. Where do we go from here . And if you believe jeremy bash who said the president that secretary matt is was never going to resign and the president would have to fire him. So it is some form of resignation or protest or firing, but either way, major and one of the
investigation. shimon, juliette, john are all back. shimon, obviously this is a beg decision. and you know, there had been an ethics recommendation which we all know for whitaker went one way, for barr went another. they said go ahead, we don t recommend recusal. but obviously this could be significant for mueller s report. this now means bill barr is the one who will make the decision as to whether or how much of it is public. right. and it s official now. we can say that bill barr is now overseeing the mueller investigation and that any decision that s going to be made is going to come from him. you know, we have been expecting it obviously to wrap up, things to come to an end, where the report would be submitted to bill barr any day now, and this could have been holding it up. bill barr could have come into the department of justice and wanted to do everything on the up and up and said i want an ethics review before i make any kind of decision. so perhaps this is what we ve been w
all right. decision tonight by the new attorney general bill barr. he will not recuse himself from oversight of bob mueller s investigation. shimon, juliette, john are all back. shimon, obviously this is a beg decision. and you know, there had been an ethics recommendation which we all know for whitaker went one way, for barr went another. they said go ahead, we don t recommend recusal. but obviously this could be significant for mueller s report. this now means bill barr is the one who will make the decision as to whether or how much of it is public. right. and it s official now. we can say that bill barr is now overseeing the mueller investigation and that any decision that s going to be made is going to come from him. you know, we have been expecting it obviously to wrap up, things to come to an end, where the report would be submitted to bill barr any day now, and this could have been holding it up.
schumer. they will be on the beat. and how is this affecting your stock market. the stock market continuing to plunge among the shutdown threat. 500 points down. and also today, republican lawmakers, they ve had it. they are blasting their president, donald trump, for many things, including siding with vladimir putin, instead of the own advice he got from his own pentagon advisers on syria. and then the story that we ve been following because it matters in many ways, this justice department in turmoil over again, yes, the russia-related mueller probe. donald trump acting attorney general now rejected the kind of ethics recommendation that jeff sessions followed in order to recuse himself, saying, no he will oversee the mueller probe and later breaking news on the man who would be permanent acting attorney general. we ll get to that. but first, let me bring in a panel on this wild night. sam seeder and a long time washington watcher. eleanor clift, from the daily