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Justice including consulting with senior ethics officials on his oversight responsibilities and matters that may warrant recusal. but ethics officials were concerned by comments whitaker made on tv about the mueller investigation. comments like this one which he made on this show back in june of 2017. >> i think whats happening is were conflating sorts of the lawyers and the prosecutors and the fbi and what they do with politics. and that gets really dangerous. and so what we hear is jim comey b...

Charge. they are concerned about comments whitaker made about the russian investigation being illegitimate. >> melissa: there is more than that, actually. theres actually more than they are alleging, because this is a particular complaint that was filed by chuck schumer. sorry? so, he talks about the idea -- chuck schumer is asking the question by the phone conversations that happen between whitaker and the white house, saying "who was on the front of the time? "in essence, from what i can gathe...

Official as well as has been there for more than 90 days to serve as acting attorney general. >> democrats ramped up the attacks. >> no significant actions under whitakers authority should be undertaken at the department. >> reporter: the judiciary committee as ranking democrat, dianne feinstein, call for emergency hearings with whitaker and jeff sessions. the committee as republican chairman controls the calendar and knows whitaker from iowa politics, pointed to the ongoing justice department e...

The extent of the comments whitaker made. these are routine things. whitaker had become a frequent presence in the white house as the chief of staff to jeff sessions who was seen as the eyes and ears for the west wing. this is how it was described by john kelly to a number of people because jeff sessions relationship with the president was so poor and the president was openly critical of jeff sessions, whitaker had a foot in each camp and he was the bridge between the department of justice and t...