manafort than they can reveal specifically about his ties to the russian political operative konstantin kilimnik. the filing is beak a list of manafort s lies although much of it has been blacked out. then there s the president s former fixer and attorney michael cohen set to testify before congress next month. on tuesday, we confirmed the special counsel will likely restrict some of cohen s testimony to protect the investigation. but he will talk about his relationship with trump. an original version of a wall street journal report quoted a person close to cohen saying he s going to tell the story of what it s like to work for a madman and why he did it for so very long. he s going to say things that will give you the chills. nbc news was told the exact same thing. there are still very big questions what the public will get to see once mueller finishes his investigation. bill barr was asked about that very thing yesterday.
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which is what previous nominees have done. why would he write the memo, not agree to adhere to an ethics official and then third, why exactly does he want this job? i think the answer i suspect it s the right answer is that he s an institutionalist. what does that mean. that means he believes in the importance of maintaining the integrity and reputation of the justice department no matter who happens to be to be the president. you know, he doesn t need it, he s a very successful attorney. he s nearing retirement age and spoke of his reverence for the institution. it s so important when we have someone like matt whitaker as the acting attorney general who is simply an attack dog for the president and for the worst aspects of the trump administration to have someone in that george h.w. bush mold who believes in the independence of the presidency. of course, he s a republican. he holds views about a strong executive and believes as the attorney general, he has a right to overrid
ordered the government to continue the program. the ninth circuit of appeals rejected the doj petition to overturn the decision. the obama era program grants temporary legal status to 700,000 people who arrived in the us as children. it is payday for federal workers. on the 21st day of the partial government shutdown, no paychecks. 800,000 employees will see a 0 on their pay stubs. the senate making sure those workers are paid once the shutdown is over. lawmakers passing a backpay bill that is now in the house. if it passes, mitch mcconnell says donald trump will sign it. michael cohen set to testify before the house oversight committee next month, jim jordan says democrats want to use this as political theater. the democratic congress going to conduct lied to congress
investigation. michael cohen set to testify publically before congress next month. we are learning about efforts underway within the president s legal team to potentially try to block the release of robert mueller s report. let s bring in our senior legal analyst, preet bharara. do you think a potential white house effort to assert executive privilege and block the release of mueller s report could be successful? i think ultimately no. the question is, what arguments are they going to make with respect to particular things they think are incriminating or damaging to them that they don t want released to the public? there s all kinds of information we expect in this report. i don t know of any credible basis to say that statements made by a president to under und underling to do unlawful or bad would be privilege. it would be against the philosophy underlying the executive privilege, which is supposed to allow white houses to have deliberations and