jeff sessions is replaced with a recess appointment and that attorney general doesn t fire bob mueller, but he just reduces a budget so low that his investigation grinds to almost a halt. that was july 2017. just two months later, whitaker was named chief of staff to then-ag jeff sessions. later taking on the job of acting ag when sessions was fired by the president. so it sure sounds like the president got the message. and then there s brett kavanaugh, who wrote in 2009, we should not burden a sitting president with civil suits, criminal investigations, or criminal prosecutions. and don t forget william barr, wrote a lengthy memo against prosecuting the president for obstruction of justice, which sure didn t hurt his chances of getting the job of attorney general. some have said on both sides
in charge of the sdny investigation has a lot of democrats demanding to know whether whitaker told the truth in his testimony before the house judiciary committee. congressman eric swalwell is on the committee and he joins me now. so good to have you here. yeah, don, thank you very much. what do you think of this new york times report? i never thought the acting attorney general was worthy of being taken at his word and that we should test his accounts, you know, that he gave us, because it was contradicted by the new york times and other press reporting. and now this story today shows that we need to get him back in. we probably need to hear from other witnesses and subpoena other documents. if these allegations are true, is that obstruction? oh, geez, obstruction was like ten exits ago with most of these characters. yeah, it s really, what can we do to intervene and make sure that, you know, the rule of law, which is the long pole in our tent of democracy still stands.
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which, remember, is the one that is threatening to go into his business, into his company, it s now into the inaugural question. they are his lawyer has basically gone to war, rudy giuliani, with the southern district of new york, an office giuliani used to lead. so he knows very well how prosecutors take it when they get essentially the stakes raised as the president s lawyers have done. i think that there is a desire by sdny to run a fine-toothed comb for everything trump related and the chances that you find something are relatively high. go ahead, carl. and well, it s a terrific story that the times and maggie have done, from two points. one, it s a wide angle lens story in which the times has pulled out, pulled back and looked at the landscape of the last couple of years. at one overt and covert suggestion and attempt at obstruction by the president of
it s all what say it s a goulash of lies! i like chinese food. i say from the south, chris, it s a gumbo of lies. no, it s a jambalaya of lies. l-i-e a. don has the vapors. i do have the vapors tonight. it is funny. so, let s talk about this. there is this bombshell report. and i think you are you re on to something. why, then, why keep going back at it. if there is absolutely nothing there in terms of collusion and in terms of obstruction in terms of let s just say, any impropriety. right. why take so much action? and jeffrey and carl are the perfect guests to talk about this with. but they re going to rely as a political defense on the two cs. credibility and criminality. they re going to say, you can t believe any of these other