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Issues or policy agenda issues. it is an insignificant sort of most americans. shannon: lets remember when assessing his credibility that hunter told the new yorker he had never been with this woman. should we care? >> i dont think necessarily care about the woman in arkansas other than hoping she is able to raise a child well. the burisma stuff will make a difference too trump supporters or people that are inclined to be trump supporters because they will say trump was right to wants to go afte...

Major storys going to be trump accused of witness tampering yesterday. >> so i know -- if our cameras can zoom in, but the front page of the "wall street journal" which is of the three national newspapers, one that donald trump seems to like the most to the degree that real news gets in front of him at all, i think this is the real news he prefers. the three headlines today, federal prosecutors probe rudy giulianis links to ukrainian energy projects. roger stone, donald trumps longest serving po...

Mr. whitaker should probably recuse himself, what would they say about bill barr if hes confirmed to be attorney general, considering he wrote essentially a legal analysis for the president and his legal team about the mueller probe? >> you know, chuck, very good question. i mean that might come out the same way. heres what i mean. what bill barr wrote is something that i strongly disagree with, but its not crazy. i mean its a very robust view of the article 2 authorities of the chief executive....

His senior advisors considered the appearance issue and recommended against recusal. this morning the deputy attorney general who had primary oversight responded. >> we have continued to manage the investigation as we have in the past and it is being handled appropriately. whether its bob mueller or rod rosenstein or matt whitaker, this investigation is going to be handled appropriately. >> bill barr is now the presidents choice to lead the justice department and sent a memo questioning the lega...

>> the presence of flood at this meeting doesnt raise any legal questions that i can think of. >> is it improper? >> its an appearance issue. you have to remember how this meeting was birthed which is to say that the justice department was kicking and screaming against having to release this information to congress thinking that it was going to reveal sources and methods and make it more difficult to obtain human confidential sources. the president essentially forced them to attend this meeting ...

>> andrew wiseman whose email we obtained last week was sending emails to sally yates, acting attorney general, anti-trump or, hillary clintons campaign election night, number 2 at them mueller justice department. if this is correct then the attorney general shouldnt have recused himself. he could have kept politics out of his job. it is the appearance issue. isnt it interesting, it only works to keep someone like sessions away from doing his job and not these partisan democrats. we look at the ...

E-mail investigation, we find out one of the main investigators was actual ly someone sending out texts to pals at the justice department that were anti-hillary texts. would you be on the show now fairly upset about it if it hadnt been at least revealed? >> my position would be exactly the same. you sound like, laura, that if this is the main investigator, hes making decisions on his own. >> laura: nobody two guy in counter intel. >> he may be but there are layers and layers and checks and balan...

Reverse the tables here. lets say in the hillary clinton e-mail investigation, we find out one of the main investigators was actual ly someone sending out texts to pals at the justice department that were anti-hillary texts. would you be on the show now fairly upset about it if it hadnt been at least revealed? >> my position would be exactly the same. you sound like, laura, that if this is the main investigator, hes making decisions on his own. >> laura: nobody two guy in counter intel. >> he ma...

Arizona and spoke with loretta lynch and she had to recuse herself from anything having to do with the fbi investigation of hillary clinton and the server. they were very critical of that. now this is a conversation, theyre not saying the conversation didnt take place between reince priebus and the deputy at the fbi. >> thats right, poppy. and that conversation that took place on that airport tarmac in phoenix, arizona, back during the summer, was regrettable, only because it raised an appearanc...

Saying that the president should be exempt from time consuming and distracting lawsuits. that does not only apply, i might add, to this question of mueller, but it also might apply to civil lawsuits like summer zervos, who is suing the president. this has implications for him. you can be sure that its going to be really central to democratic questioning of kavanaugh when he appears before congress. >> and to your point on recusal, it is true that three justices on the court were appointed by nix...