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Department under president george h.w. bush 25 years ago is emerging as alleged candidate. the president has not made a final decision officials say, but is strongly considering the veteran washington lawyer. it s been one month since trump fired attorney general jeff sessions. i put in an attorney general that never took control of the justice department, jeff sessions. never took control of the justice department and it s sort of an incredible thing. reporter: after months of publicly chastising him for his recuse until the russia investigation. even my enemy says that jeff sessions should have told you that he was going to recuse himself and then you wouldn t have put him in. reporter: he named loyalist matt whitaker as acting attorney general, technically overseeing the russia probe that lies at the heart of president trump s anger. but tonight the president is contending with more fallout in the markets worldwide after the arrest of a top chinese executive heightened conce ....
Cooperating with the special counsel, interviewing him some 19 times. the president not yet talking about that publicly, but wolf, all that could change tomorrow as we re expecting so much more news and information coming out of the special counsel s office. wolf? tomorrow could be a really, really big day. all right, jeff zeleny, thank you very much. and the russia investigation tonight, trump confidante roger stone is speaking out after invoking his fifth amendment rights to avoid testifying before the u.s. senate and turning over what he describes as truckloads of documents. let s go to our political correspondent sara murray. she is working the story for us. sara, president trump araised roger stone s defiance in the russia probe earlier in the week, and you had a chance to speak with him. what are you learning right now about any coordination between the two? wolf, remember earlier this week, trump praised roger stone said he had guts because he said he would never testify aga ....
Considering, it always includes the line that a source close to the president cautions nothing is final until president trump either tweets it or announce it. wolf, that s true. because oftentimes in this west wing, things are so up one minute and down the next that they truly do not know if the president is sold on someone, even if he tells them that, the next minute he could be asking about someone else. just a word of caution with that, as with any other hiring decision made. that s a very important word of caution. phil mudd, do you have any concerns that barr would carry out instructions from president trump to limit the mueller probe? at the moment, i do. as kaitlan said, i think she nailed it. this is an establishment figure. i think the debate in this town is going to get confused if he is ever nominated. the confusion will be is he a conservative nominee who has held conservative positions? absolutely. that should not be confused with the question about whether he would in ....
Committee. and our correspondents and analysts are also standing by. first, let s go to our senior white house correspondent jeff zeleny. jeff, after a lot of speculation about a potential white house shake-up, the president seems to be moving forward in his new search for a new attorney general. what s the latest? wolf, good evening. the president could not wait to fire his attorney general jeff sessions, but he has taken longer to hire a permanent replacement. but tonight we are learning that one of the leading contenders for the position is someone who indeed has held the position before. william barr was the attorney general for a couple of years during the first bush administration, whose been on hand for all of the ceremonies here this week in washington is described to us by officials as one of the leading contenders. of course, the president could always change his mind. see still reviewing others as well. but wolf, the question is, if he named him, if he was confirmed, what ....
He says they don t have a joint defense agreement, and in a speech here in d.c., he insisted the president s tweet was nothing more than a tweet, certainly not witness tampering. i was proud to see a tweet from the president of the united states who lauded me for my guts. now, some in the mainstream media went immediately to a post of all liberal legal analysts who said that the president s tweet could cute witness tampering. absurd on the basis of the fact that i have said the exact same thing on the record on numerous forums for the last two years. now, wolf, obviously some read the president s tweet as a nod to roger stone, that maybe he would pardon him if he ended up in legal trouble. roger stone obviously downplaying the idea that there is any kind of obstruction of justice going on here, wolf. ....