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let me switch gears to another question as it relates toti this. matt whitaker, he met with the former acting attorney general, met with judiciary chairman democrat jerry nadler, to talk more about his discussions with president trump. and we saw two very different interpretations of that meeting from some of your colleagues. i want to play this for you, take a listen. unlike in the hearing room, mr.in whitaker did not deny tha the president called him to discuss the michael cohen case and personnelae decisions in th southern indistrict. two, while he was acting attorney general, mr. whitaker was directly involved in conversations about whether to fire one or more u.s. attorneys. i think one of the biggest takeaways i ve found of this whole thing thati mr. nadler agreed the worst fears and expectations of mr. f whitaker were not borne out. he said he did not talk with the ....
what happens if there is no collusion? he said there is no collusion, so the number one reason is he would have been wrong. charlie savage, that was actually a different answer on fox. when he was asked whether or not he was going to limit the mueller investigation, trump said he would not get involved in doing that. what kind of additional legal problems does that create, and is there any way around that to kind of force the report out into the public if whitaker does decide to quash it? what would happen is, in january, when the democrats take over the house of representatives, they would use their subpoena power to try to force it out of the executive branch. the executive branch, then, of the trump administration would assert an executive privilege and we would have a big court fight. it would take a long time. i think that s part of the reason democrats are worried about what whitaker may do, especially before january. we re still five weeks away from when democrats have any ....
The russia investigation before he tapped him to become the acting attorney general. that s going to be a big question that we re likely going to find out soon. also, white house officials are questioning the logic of the timing here. i know that a lot of critics and pundits do not believe yesterday was a good day for the white house and mid terms, but in the white house, they thought it was a good day because they were bracing themselves for it to be ugly for them and kind of walked away with what they were expecting. a lots in the house and maybe picking up a few seats in the senate. so right now the conversation gore the last two weeks had been about the mid terms, not about the mueller probe. less than 24 hours before even the polls closed, it is right back on being about robert mueller, the white house and the president s focus on this, which we should have seen coming since he was tweeting about it this morning. and i suspect, josh, the president would not have named whitaker a ....