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So hunter biden engaged in no crimes regarding of sitting in the board of burisma. hunter bidens position on the board would have been eliminated along with his $50,000 a month payment. that was his stake and the potential prosecution involving the company. ev even the former acting general under president obama said the following. is what hunter biden did wrong? absolutely. hunter biden had no real experience which made him unqualified to sit on the board of burisma. the only logical reason a c...

Genuinely shocked pie arguments this administration is making in court. arguments they are basically completely above the law. im joined now by the former acting general, neal, did you have the okay, wow response to the dajs argument? >> i think it was way past that. honestly, chris, when i teach constitutional law we use this nixon oral argument in 1974 as an example of a preposterous legal argument. its up there with stuff like that. and to have our justice department lawyers say hes trying to...

Should be handed over to congress in the same way they were in 1974 during watergate. now, one argument the doj could make in response to that is just to say these are different situations. that is not the argument they made. the argument that william barrs justice department made instead was effectively that the courts got it wrong in 1974 that the watergate materials should have been allowed to stay out of the hands of congress. and who knows how history would have turned out. the ap made that...

Which was an exact transcript of my call, he said wow. he didnt do anything wrong. >> okay. so first the president accusing an opponent of having a mental breakdown is a deflect. lets focus on the idea this is an exact transcript word for word. it wasnt and the president should know that. because right on the first page it says its a memorandum of the telephone conversation, not a verbatim transcript. >> i have a lot of respect for whistle-blowers but only when theyre real. >> the whistle-blower...

Lending could not be more important. could those lenders afford to have a massive lobby? the people who are taken advantage of payday lenders, they cant afford to pay back the $200 loan they took out. this is the most predatory business. >> it is predatory. >> stephanie ruhle. >> i am fired up about it. >> i like it. i am glad that we are continuing it. it is 11:00 a.m. west and 2:00 p.m. here in washington. the acting general threatened not to show up tomorrow for the committee hearing unless t...

Battle on what executive privilege means. this could go on and on and in the meantime, we could see whitaker delayed and exit the washington scene and claims hes no longer part of the over sight of the responsibility. this is about accountability. we are seeing the white house saying we dont want him accountable. >> well, lets be clear, whitaker, pete, is only the acting general. >> the big hand is five. by monday or tuesday, bill barr, will be the attorney general. >> the relevance of subpoenai...

Problematic if whitaker briefed the president. so this is a case in which we would especially want to see sort of care and diligence. there is also a question about even if the underlying information is true, the investigation is coming to an end. whether or not matt whitaker made those comments in order to sort of help mount a little bit of pressure, right, create that situation, i think that this does all point to the importance of those oversight hearings. whitaker is expected to appear befor...

>> even if this bill doesnt pass its important to send a political message to the new acting attorney general and to the president that they wont stand for any interference in the probe. weve seen challenges to matt whitaker, questions about whether he should recuse or whether his appointment is constitution. all of those are imperfect. theres a political check on the president in normal circumstances. no president would dream of skipping over the usual line of succession to put in an acting gen...

Quote, make rosenstein the proper successor to jeff sessions. maryland is arguing that because theyre just in the process of suing jeff sessions over the aca, this whole thing needs to be cleared up fast. they dont want matt whitaker sticking his nose in their affordable care act lawsuit if hes not lawfully able to hold that job. quote, once whitaker appears as acting attorney general, it will be difficult to unwind any positions that the attorney general takes. so this is a federal lawsuit, rig...

Acting attorney general whose never gone through senate confirmation whose nevertheless been put in charge of the mueller investigation and whose been a very controversial choice on the mueller investigation specifically because of his many public comments disparaging the investigation and saying how he thinks it should go. i know you and your fellow incoming chairman were invited to brief other democratic house members during that call. can you share with us what those discussions are like with...