actually as you just said and mia intuitive before we heard it, and we're getting all this sound. everyone is going through his archive, his record. he was talking about the appearance of impropriety. you have a president here who said what he wanted would be someone who would not be protected. >> that is an elicit goal in the first place. let's listen again to rerack to whitaker the new acting attorney general on why one should recuse. >> the reason he recuse himself is not because there is anything for him to hide. as it relates to the trump campaigns and ties to russia. as a lawyer if there is an appearance of impropriety, as soon as the outrage from the left occurred, he knew as a lawyer that that is an appearance of impropriety, because there are people suggesting he did something wrong, it's a conflict, he has to recuse. >> and what matt whitaker knows because it's been public is that many people in the public