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Executive branch documents. paul: well, heres another question i have. he comes in and, lets say, doesnt recuse himself. hes now the attorney general of the united states. mueller clearly reports to him. hes not -- hes an inferior officer to the attorney general. could the attorney general say, look, mr. special counsel, youve been doing this itll be two years in may, its even longer if you go back when the fbi started its counterintelligence investigation. lets wrap this up, lets get it out. fo...

Weakened under this administration, do you have any faith that matthew whitaker will meet with the officials and b tell him anything useful and that he might listen? >> the obvious reason, is only use to feel the president in so far -- >> doesnt recuse himself. >> doesnt recuse himself and acts to ske s ts to squelch the investigation. its a pattern with the investigation. the normal process of having an acting attorney general would have been to good to the deputy attorney general rod rosenstei...

Happened and given how the ethics departments seem to be weakened under this administration, do you have any faith that matthew whitaker will meet with the officials and b tell him anything useful and that he might listen? >> the obvious reason, is only use to feel the president in so far -- >> doesnt recuse himself. >> doesnt recuse himself and acts to squelch the investigation. its a pattern with the investigation. the normal process of having an acting attorney general would have been to good...

York as you may have heard, its brand-new 6:00 p.m. open the east coast. we are watching a fairly sizable protect mueller protests. they have been peaceful working down times square. i wonder, what is your message to those protesters when people say theyll be ready to take to the streets when a red lean is crossed. in your view, how would we know when and if mr. whitaker crosses such a lean? >> well, mr. whitaker crosses the line is moment he accepts the job and doesnt recuse himself and we know...

What about the taxpayer money thats been spent. mueller team first four and a half, five months, spending 1.4, $1.5 million per month on this. what happens if mueller got fired? there is going to be another special counsel. why didnt jeff sessions fire himself. unfortunately the only thing that cant happen is you would never get another a.g. through the approval process. >> i do think they can get another attorney general. >> you do? really? >> look, president trump is still the president for ye...

Is using the word hard because the president is talking about something different. pocketbook. >> i think its a combination of a bunch of things. i think the difficulty here is kind of like with north korea where there doesnt seem to be any good answers, right? there is no good solution here all of them could potentially lead to more dangerous environment. i also believe its not just isis that were worried about as well. its also bad actors like iran and russia and the national defense strategy ...

Favor of pushing the legal limits on president clinton, in terms of the kind of process that ken starr could use against him. subsequently, he wrote that that was a bruising thing, and he changed his mind. he thinks that presidents should be immune from criminal trials, subpoenas, until after theyre out of office. now, he did say that it would require a change in the law, that congress would have to change the law in order to give presidents that kind of legal immunity. nonetheless, it does show...