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From the program entirely. garrett tenney has the latest. >> democrats argue that whitaker is essentially the president hatchet man appointed to destroy the mueller investigation. today top democrat also sent a letter to the justice department chief ethics official asking if hes the vice whitaker to recuse himself in the special account investigation similar to a former attorney general jeff sessions was told by ethics officials. if he doesnt recuse himself, democrats are vowing to launch invest...

Even if the ethics office says he should, correct? >> i dont know whether hes legally required to. but heres the thing. we have every right to expect all of the employees of the justice department to follow the ethics rules and that means especially the attorney general. but, you know, i want to make this very clear, if he doesnt recuse himself, if he has any involvement whatsoever in this russia probe, we are going to find out whether he made commitments to the president about the probe, whethe...

Of that? >> first of all there is this concept of the european army or the european military and our position is very clear, that you can do extra things over and above your nato commitment, if you want, but dont undercut nato. dont try to have this as a substitute program for nato. the french are on track or at least they say theyre on track to meet their nato commitments. the germans are not. we still dont have a single politician in germany who has stood up and said "we will meet the nato com...

Whether its france or germany, they actually sign up for different programs at nato, and its just like a wedding registry. you sign up for what you want to give and you pay for it, and so this is something that countries have said we can do and all president trump is trying to say is you need to do this by the deadline which is 2024. your commitment is 2% by 2024. live up to your commitments. neil: well i got the impression, ambassador that the french and the germans might not and they are pursu...

Need to make sure that we are electing party leadership with strong commitments to putting medicare for all, tuition-free college and more at the top of the agenda. things like a living wage. and thats what im going to be looking for in terms of where we want to select our next speaker. ed: congresswoman elect by the way was mad that i was on "americas newsroom" and i was talking about the fact that she is now saying she cant afford an apartment in washington, d.c. and she thought i was mocking ...

True european army to provide for the protection of europe. the president didnt like that one bit, calling macrons comments insulting, saying europe should live up to its nato commitments, listen to what the president said. >> were getting along from the standpoint of fairness. we want to help europe but it those be fair. the burden has been largely on the united states as the president will say and he understands that. >> reporter: macrons initial comments appeared to be based on earlier statem...

European defense and germany safety and so we are making our commitments very well known. were increasing those commitments, president trump has made it clear that he will increase defense spending. we are making our commitments very loud and we want others to also do the same thing at nato. neil: real quickly but only because you mentioned that salad thing, ambassador your name is still on that short list to be u.n. ambassador to replace nikki haley. are you interested in that post? >> look, im...

I think the big question going forward is going to be can the republicans tried to also find the catalyst for their women to get more active in some of these races and can democrats also say, hey, a lot of these women still didnt win. you have these big numbers up top. will they try to run 2020? what that momentum continued to build quick to make >> here is nancy pelosi, one of the best-known women in congress. here she is talking about the speakership. >> let me say that i will be the speaker o...

All meet, they say great things about each other. i think they learned right off the bat that this president wasnt there to sort of make friends and steal a bunch of happy talk he was there to get results for the american people, and in this particular case of nato and nato funding hes a strong supporter of article v, but he recognizes that these folks, they cant just continue to have the u.s. carry the burden. part of the entire nut of nato is to be a check against russia, and if theyre going t...

House, right? house democrats will have to vote soon on leadership. that includes picking a speaker. ten democrats have told politico they dont support on nancy pelosis bid. given the size of a democratic majority, she really cant afford to lose too many members. do you support leader pelosis bid? >> well, what ive said from the beginning and this goes back over a year is that i want to see what my options are. i want to see who is running. i want to have conversations with them what their plans...