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 a halt. grind the investigation to a halt. that is the new acting attorney general. what you are looking at right now are live pictures we are getting in right now 6:05 on the east coast in time s square. when people talk about what the public would do if this turns into a weighted kneecap mueller, if this turns into a constitutional crisis, many experts say we re not there quite yet. but we are there with people in the streets, what look to us based on our reporting what you can see as peaceful marches. these are a part of a plan for marches around the country to quote/unquote protect mueller. can you see from our skycam there just how far back they go. in new york city, you always have a mix of people who are walking around and get caught up in a march to the people who are planning the march. what
no matter what this investigation tries. it is a break the glass moment and i m hoping that all of my colleagues will rise to the occasion. we will fill in the gaps of the russian investigation. we will conduct all the investigations that the republicans were unwilling to conduct. we will make sure we hold donald trump and his administration accountable. today top democrats leaning on the power that will get if january. they are demanding all materials relating to the firing of jeff session, documents, memos they can use in their own probe investigation. meanwhile, rod rosen stestein i back at the white house. until yesterday, rosenstein was the only thing between mueller and trump because the now departed attorney general did this. i have now decided to recuse
man and they d meet trump at the white house together, whitaker would smile knowingly to trump as he complained about mueller according to new reporting in the washington post. now this looks like a prelude to whitaker nabbing his boss job. he was the last person to shake jeff session s hand as he departed the doj, stabbing him in the front. taking over his job. the other breaking news is whitaker was probably prejudgeing the announcement of the mueller probe the truth is there was quote no collusion between trump and russia. again, something that is under open investigation. it could be true that there was no collusion. in fact, bob mueller might find that for everyone. but he could find something else. the question is whether this is the right man to oversee that given what he said. i can tell you critics say tonight it is those kind of comments that make whitaker unfit to oversee a probe. democrats warn they will use their new power to investigate
russia. as a lawyer, if there is an appearance e experience of impr soon as the outrage from the left occurred. he knew as a lawyer that was an appearance of impropriety. people are suggesting, it s a conflict, he has to recuse. zplu know what whitaker sound like right there, michael? like mia. mia wiley. he made her point. he literally made her point. so if beyond everything else that the broadcasts are playing, play that sound byte over and over and over again, because it go es to the core of the argument that applied to jeff session and now applies to him. you know what we will do, mia? we will do, michael is using an old legal dj trick. suppose you see that as a jamaican dance hall, you say, hit it again. hit it again, baby. we will rerack that sound of mr. whitaker because it is
he was opining as an analyst a political pundit-type situation. given the sensitivities of this. given the already vexing nature of this, you got people on the streets as you are showing, ari, i think the important thing is to if nothing else, say, you know what, i don t need to touch this particular aspect of what the justice department are doing. there are other things to make sure the institution focuses smoothly. i will focus on that. everybody will be watching every little scintilla he puts forth relating to this hearing, this process by mueller. and i don t know if he can withstand the scrutiny long term let alone short term. michael, listen to whitaker with what kicked this off, jeff sessions being too close to oversee it. the reason he recuse himself is not because there is anything for him to hide as it relates to the trump campaign and ties to