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Defense secretary mattis. and even during the transition she was serving on the pentagon transition team and tried to block a number of mattiss picks after she, herself, could not get a job at the d.o.d. shes really been sort of an attack dog for national security adviser john bolton. sort of going after mattis, going after people in the white house. there are reports of her screaming at people. so she has, you know, really been aggressive and also created a lot of enemies in the white house. as...

And liked him. and later, in july of 2017, don mcgahn brings whitaker to the white house and has a chat with him and thinks he can be a type of attack dog directed at mueller. for whatever reason, the white house goes a different way and hours a ty cobb but he keeps his eye on whitaker and then installs him as jeff sessions chief of staff in october of 2017. >> one of the things that mcgann and others in the white house would have seen, if they were keeping their eye on whitaker is all the telev...

Multiple times on the phone. then theres the way in which whitaker got his initial job working with sessions. it was actually the white house, not the doj, that pushed for sessions to hire him as his chief of staff. and at one point, there was even talk of whitaker changing jobs. according to "the new york times," former white house counsel don mcgahn interviewed whitaker about joining trumps legal team to serve as an attack dog against robert mueller, the same robert mueller whitaker has now be...

Then he said he doesnt know whitaker. which is it? >> i think kellyanne conway parsed statements. that of course he knows him but not like theyre best friends. i guess theres degrees of no in trumpism. obviously he knows him. he was put in there as sessions chief of staff because there was the hope and plan to get rid of sessions and to put this man in charge and his purpose is to be the attack dog, the hatchet man and thats what hes going to do. the mueller investigation is in jeopardy. i filed...

Of his legal acumen, because of his sterling resume because neither have been proficient. hes there because he basically -- hes donald trumps roy cohn, hes a bulldog to go in there and try to do havoc with the mueller investigation, which he talked about openly on cnn when he was a talking head for the administration. >> there was a recent "new york times" report that found whitaker interviewed for a position on the presidents legal team as a, quote, attack dog against the special counsel. so is...

Likewise, as chief, i did not know mr. whitaker except primarily as he traveled with ag sessions, no social contact. he goes on to say mr. whitaker very highly thought of armrest -- very highly thought of by joanie efrns, senator chuck grassley, terry branstad, former iowa governor, leonard leo and many more. i feel certain he would make an outstanding acting attorney general. fast forward to other -- to another piece of news, from "the new york times." goldman, sheer and smith report president ...

Impact on the mueller probe. new attempts with an attack dog to stay away. >> hes totally unqualified and his only qualification seems to be that he wants -- the president wants him to be the hatchet man to destroy the mueller investigation. >> the battle cry beyond as florida begins its first ever statewide recounts, but will all of them really be counted? im alex witt in new york. lets follow whats going on out there. were following two big stories both with political implications. first flori...

A great guy. i mean i know matt whitaker. >> i know matt whitaker, he says. that was just last month. in addition to the presidents own words, we know that trump has met with whitaker dozens of times at the white house. as well as talk to him on the phone. in fact, according to "new york times," white house chief of staff john kelly has him considered whitaker as the eyes and ears at the justice department. the times reports that the white house counsel interviewed whitaker last year about possi...

One of the most sprieszing things is whitaker was interviewed by trumps legal team as they considered bringing him on to be an attack dog against mueller and one of our other legal analysts had suggested that whitaker could have learned some strategy perhaps, confidential information during that interview. paul, do you think thats possible? >> oh, i think its possible, and i think when you look at the history of this, the president met with whitaker. he was an intermediary between sessions and t...

What he saw. partisan defender who insisted there was no collusion between russia and the trump campaign. so that july, the white house counsel, don mcgahn ii interviewed mr. whitaker about joining the presidents team as legal attack dog against the special counsel robert mueller. so phil rucker, he came up the organic way, the boss saw him on cable saying things the boss liked. what do you make of what appeared to be an attempt to zarngs himself, i dont know this guy. and now tonight at 4:55:00...