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yeah, that s just not true. so the president has to say that because of everything that s going on right now. look, i think it s fair to say that people at the department of justice, people at the senior level of law enforcement don t trust this guy. they never trusted him when he was there. they felt he was a plant. he was there placed at the department of justice by the president, by the white house, to spy. look, the president has made it very clear. he does not like the way the department of justice has been operating. he doesn t like rod rosenstein. he didn t like jeff sessions. he needed to put someone in there who he knew and who he trusted. and whitaker perhaps was that guy. the other concern really right now at the department of justice is because the president didn t follow this line of succession, there could be serious legal implications with whitaker being in that job. and that any decisions he makes or any rulings, so to speak, that he makes could be challenged. anythin
surprise by the pushback they re receiving about this appointment as of right now. which is surprising in and of itself. you asked the president if he wants whitaker to rein in robert mueller during that gaggle. i want to play for everyone what he said. do you want him to rein in robert mueller? what a stupid question that is. what a stupid question. but i watch you a lot. you ask a lot of stupid questions. put aside the fact of just the relationship that he likes to take with reporters. what you asked is the opposite of that. it s a really important question. kate, it s the question. i mean, i don t know how else to ask the president as respectfully as i can the question that i think everyone is trying to answer, which is what is the purpose of matt whitaker, who is a known and well known critic of the russia
whitaker. it was not widely known among white house staff that before he joined the department of justice in 2017, whitaker repeatedly criticized the special counsel s investigation in interviews, on television. he even wrote an opinion piece for cnn.com, and yet the white house is totally shocked by the shall we say not entirely effusive whitaker coverage. might i direct the white house to www.google.com. the president may be taking a new direction on whitaker. earlier he tried to distance himself from the man he made the top law enforcer in the land. well, matt whitaker, i don t know matt whitaker. he worked for jeff sessions and was always extremely highly thought of and still is. but i didn t know matt whitaker. he worked for attorney general sessions. he was very, very highly thought of and still is highly thought
enforcement person now in this country, who is so close to the president. because there are ethical concerns. there are always ethical concerns that really this president doesn t care about and has made it very clear that the separation between the department of justice and the white house, it s very important part of how our country runs and certainly how investigations are done, but this president doesn t care, and it s clear that this choice obviously by this choice, he doesn t care. and jamie, to kind of shimon s point of the problems that this poses, someone else who has said that the problem that it poses is george conway. i know, like as the world turns. white house edition. i know. he wrote in an op-ed with neal cat eal that whitaker s appointment is unconstitutional. listen to what the president said in reaction. you mean mr. kellyanne conway? he s just trying to get publicity for himself. why don t you do this, why don t