or request to be taken by the special counsel? mr. chairman, i see that your five minutes is up, so we i am here voluntary. we have agreed to five-minute rounds, and i think that s a fine place to end of five-minute rule. the committee will come to it. i will point out we didn t enforce the five-minute rule on acting attorney general whitaker. i understand. i was just saying it might be a good breaking point at that the attorney general was mountain middle of saying something. answer the question, please. regular order. in your capacity. please ask the question. let me repeat the question, so people remember what we re talking about. in your capacity as acting attorney general, have you ever been asked to approve any request or action to be taken by the special counsel?
justice you cover all this. the letter that went to from nadler to whitaker back onnian wear 22nd laying out all these questions and saying let us know 48 hours before this hearing start you re not going to answer these, and then the whole subpoena fight. we just heard nadler admit a subpoena wouldn t do anything here. as we ve sort of been discussing, congress really has only a couple options, so we wondered how much would the democrats want to press the point when a man who will be replaced in a couple weeks. obviously they tried to press the subpoena, and he flawed it in some way, if he didn t an questions and they could try to hold him in contempt, but if they tried to take it to court that s a civil remedy. if they tried to refer to doj
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advised him to do that. really it s upon him. yeah, evan, important context here. everyone, stay with us, we are waiting for matthew whitaker to come back and face more of these questions in just a moment. we re live from capitol hill. stay with us. this is a very difficult job. failure is not an option.a. more than half of employees across the country bring financial stress to work. if you re stressed out financially at home,
found out this wasn t what this was going to be about. ladies and gentlemen, there are votes on the floor, 11 minutes left. we re infirmed they re they re going to strictly enforce that rule. so 15-minute rule now, it s changed now? the committee will stand in recess until immediately after the last in this series of votes. great. all right. so that was quite something. you saw the standoff there by the chairman of the house judiciary committee jerry nadler there, trying to get matthew whitaker to answer key questions about questions about his administration, with the president. trying to nail him down on dates. he did answer some. then you saw the ranking member, the republican doug collins calling this just a charade and chasing a rabbit down a hole. let s bring our experts back.