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The new york times says what drew the president s attention to matthew whittaker and over time the attention of democrats when on 2017 whittaker appeared on cnn to talk about mueller s russia probe. he argued that the president made the right call in the firing of former fbi director jim comey saying president trump made the right decision. in an op-ed he argued that investigations into the president s business and finances raise serious concerns that the special council s investigation was a mere witch hunt. on cnn in july of 2017 he suggested a new attorney general could starve mueller s investigation of funds rather than fire him. i can see a scenario jeff sessions is replaced with a recessed point and that attorney general doesn t fire bob mueller but he reduces the budget so low ....
Whitaker has personal ties to one of the witnesses in the mueller investigation. he was the campaign chairman for sam clovis 2014 bid for state treasurer in iowa. clovis has been interviewed by mueller s team, testified before the grand jury. and according to the washington post, clovis was also lifted as an unnamed campaign supervisor in the indictment of former trump campaign aide george papadopoulos. so as we all know, the president has railed against mueller s investigation from the very beginning, calling it a hoax, a witch hunt 160 times since last spring. trump has even floated the idea of actually firing the special counsel. over a year ago, i asked whitaker whether the president would actually go through with that, and here s what he said. i don t. it will be a spectacular we will spend a lot of time talking about this if and when he does. but i think this president puts these things out there into the ether of politics to see what ....
Responsibility. whit ter the president found an ally. who questioned the scope of the investigation. i asked him last year why trump wouldn t say he would fire mueller. it s dangerous politically. legally there are certainly a way for that to happen. you don t think it s dangerous legally it s not obstruction? unless you it goes my way i m going to fire you. no. i don t think that s obstruction. we keep using that term. whittaker also previously questioned the scope of the special counsel investigation saying examining the trump family finances would be would raise serious concerns that the special counsel investigation was a mere witch hunt. witch hunt. sound familiar? lots to discuss. executive producer of show time the circus on sunday night. also cnn global affairs analyst. ....
Bob mueller, but he just reduces the budget so low that his investigation grinds to almost a halt. so whitaker also argued that rosenstein should limit the scope of mueller s investigation in an august 2017 op-ed for cnn.com. this was the title of it. the title was mueller s investigation of trump is going too far. and it said in part in that op-ed, any investigation into president trump s finances or the finances of his family would require mueller to return to rod rosenstein for additional authority under mueller s appointment as special counsel. if he were to continue to investigate the financial relationships without a broadened scope in his appointment, then this would raise serious concerns that the special counsel s investigation was a mere witch hunt. that s a quote from the op-ed, ....
His feelings toward the russia investigation. here he was on cnn in july of last year before he worked at justice. listen. i could see a scenario where jeff sessions is replaced with a recess appointment and that attorney general doesn t fire bob mueller, but he just reduces the budget so low that his investigation grinds to an almost halt. grinds to a halt. whitaker also writing an opinion piece for cnn last summer and it was titled mueller s investigation of trump is going too far. and also writing this. if mueller was investigating trump s finances, this would raise serious concerns that the special counsel s investigation was a mere witch hunt. those final words? likely music to the president s ears. here s what the president had to say about the investigation today. on the russia investigation, are you concerned that you may have i m not concerned about anything with the russia investigation because it s a hoax. would you consider removing ....