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Instigate investigations and terminate investigations that have been started. that kind of power can t go to a political hack. how do we know they re not a political hack? by subjects them to the congress and the senate. that s not me, that s the congressional statute that was written in the 1960s which the justice department conveniently overlooks. trace: fox is reporting saying there was speculation that president trump just did this. he liked matthew whitaker and stuck him in there he did due diligence and he asked the doj and did looking around. it wasn t willy-nilly. they said you can do this. it s fine. you have two statutes. you have one that says when there s a vacancy in a principle
PowerInvestigationsHackKindFbiCongressSenateStatuteSubjects1960PresidentTrace trace: i don t want to give away the goods on your op-ed. everybody will love it tomorrow. your argument is that matthew whitaker is legally uneligible. as you heard john roberts say and the doj says he s eligible on the federal reform act. your thoughts? it s disappointed to see the lawyers that work for matthew whitaker go back to 1866 and look for a precedent there. i don t care what happened in 1866. the congress changed the law in the 1960s and whoever runs the justice department has to be nominated by the president and confirmed by the senate because we put too much power in their hands. they supervise 90,000 people and among home the fbi and they
The-big-questionDepartment-reports-matthew-whitakerEverybodyItOp-edArgumentGoodsMatthew-whitaker-goLawyersJohn-roberts-sayDojThoughtsConsent request to prevent the acting attorney general, whitaker, from interfering. we ve been basically in indictment watch seeing if there s going to be any movement. one of my legal contacts pointed out that you have what may be an interesting dynamic here because the president s legal team will want to see any new indictment if it goes to aides who had any kind of contact with the aide before they submit their answers and the mueller s team may want to see the answers before they indict. trace: thanks, catherine. live in dc. while the justice department said it was perfectly legal for president trump to appoint matthew whitaker as acting attorney general. our own judge, andrew napolitano, argues there s a good reason why the president cannot do this. he said keeping whitaker in the
Matthew-whitaker-goOneIndictmentConsentContactsRequestMovementPresidentTeamContactKindAidesOfficials make it clear the first lady and her office are not calling for ricardel to be fired. they re simply stating their opinion that they don t believe she should be working at the white house. ricardel is an unfamiliar figure to most people. she s the chief of staff at the national security council and a very important person for the national security adviser, john bolton, who i m told is willing to go to the mat to keep her on. now, if they were to get rid of ricardel, i m told that it could get ugly quickly. so trace, we re watching this very closely to see which way it tips. trace: john roberts live in the north lawn. thank you, john. more on the acting attorney general, matthew whitaker. let s bring in senior judicial analyst, judge andrew napolitano. the judge wrote an op-ed for foxnews.com on the acting ag that will go online tomorrow. great the see you, my friend. likewise.
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