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Sessions in that job. >> thats right, anderson. hes said over and over both that he dismisses the ongoing investigation led by robert mueller as a hoax or witch hunt and this was the cause of his sharp break from jeff sessions who was his greatest loyalist in the senate. his first endorser in the senate. and someone with whom he was very closely aligned ideologi l ideologically. it was because jeff sessions followed the ethics rules of the doj and recused himself that the president gradually bec...

The president should have followed the succession statute and put in the next person in line, but he didnt. he went around to someone who was not confirmed by the united states senate. so he can serve in an acting capacity, i believe its for 210 days. ill remind you that will then take us obviously into the next congress at which point the majority by which he might then be able to confirm a new attorney general is likely to go up in the senate. ill also just mention, anderson, you know, partly ...

Wouldnt have even put jeff sessions in that job. >> thats right, anderson. hes said over and over both that he dismisses the ongoing investigation led by robert mueller as a hoax or witch hunt and this was the cause of his sharp break from jeff sessions who was his greatest loyalist in the senate. his first endorser in the senate. and someone with whom he was very closely aligned ideologically. it was because jeff sessions followed the ethics rules of the doj and recused himself that the preside...

Im not sure its that because hes always wanted to do it. but it creates a huge potentially constitutional crisis going forward. >> to sams point here, the president has a good six months plus with matthew whittaker, who can be at the helm there of the doj. lets talk about what this means for the mueller investigation, the extent to which this person, the shifting of the guard can have an influence on the direction, the halting, the putting in roadblocks for the investigation. where does this lea...

Announce it to the public? >> it does seem conspicuous, the timing. i think this was obviously planned for a while. the presidents relationship with jeff sessions was toxic at best. he had long been angered at the fact that he had recused himself from the russia probe and he wanted to push him out. of course to do so before the midterms would be really problematic, so they waited. i didnt think it was going to come literally hours after the midterms. i wish they would have waited one day for my ...

Its not an endorsement of what happened. its just my opinion that its arguably legal. thats my third point. by arguably, i mean we dont know the answer. >> meaning this needs to be decided by the supreme court. >> it would have to be litigated. which is the answer to a lot of questions over the last few months. >> you have to find the lawsuit to litigate it. . somebody who has standing. >> have you thought about somebody? >> you could imagine a world in which a member of congress might have stan...

This, jeff sessions had been advised to recuse himself. he didnt physically have to. but it would have looked really bad if he had not recused himself. >> he was part of the campaign. >> and that was his argument. president trump didnt see it that way. so even if matt whitaker is strongly advised, you need to recuse yourself because of the comments youve made about the mueller investigation, it raises the question of if he feels he has the backing of president trump and doesnt have to, will he d...

Attorney in iowa. that would require confirmation, wouldnt i? >> i thought that was under the george bush administration. >> it has to be this administration? >> he has to be a confirmed official -- >> it was an earlier administration where he was confirmed at u.s. attorney. laura. >> because whitaker is a certain level at d.o.j. and hes been here a certain amount of time, he can serve here, i believe its roughly around 210 days or so. he can stay here on a permanent basises a the acting. what h...

In other words, the mueller probe must continue unimpeded, in interrupted. i think youll see a lot of other republican senators say it. we have a bill in the house that would also protect it. im a little concerned with what whittaker has said in the particular column that he wrote. but i dont think that mittker is going to have free reign to impede this investigation -- >> but do you think it is wrong for president trump to install someone in there whos on the record saying we should basically d...

Rosenstein and robert mueller in addition to the president. make some sense of this for us. >> well, i think you just did it perfectly. so were going to have a new attorney general, a new acting attorney general while the president decides whether to nominate someone. if he puts matt whitaker in this job, matt whitaker can serve a maximum of 210 days under the law or until the president nominates someone else and then that person can continue in the job until someone else is confirmed. so thats ...