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>> i did not talk about my views of the mueller investigation with anyone at the white house in this time period, essentially may of 2017 until i joined the department of justice in october of 2017. >> and when you -- throughout that process, did you ever communicate with any -- heres the question. by my count, you made six comments critical of the special counsel between the time you interviewed in june 2017 and the time you were hired as chief of staff to the attorney general. did you ever use...

Were waiting for this vote? >> and youre watching a procedural argument between the chair, jerry nadler, and the vice chair, the republican, over whether or not a question from karen bass is relevant, because she is questioning his qualifications or she tried to finish a question, she did not finish her question, the question went to what he did before he became acting attorney general. the fact is that there are a lot of questions being asked about why the decision was made to pluck him out of ...

Would be inappropriate for me to talk about any other memos related to that. >> we already know theres been some modification of the broadest order i think you can have with this august 2nd, 2017 memo. all im asking is, are there any other modifications, any other changes to the parameters of an investigation into the president of the united states? >> the time of the gentleman has expired. the witness may answer. >> congressman, just to be clear, the special counsel understands the scope of its...

Job, did you ever speak with the president about the mueller probe in 2017? >> are you saying before i was actually the chief of staff? >> im saying between may 17, 2017 -- >> congressman, i never met the president until after i joined -- >> let me ask you another question. did you communicate with anyone at the white house about the special counsel investigation before september 22nd, 2018? >> i assume youre excluding my appearances on cnn. because i dont know if the white house was watching my...

Specific about this because you are right, we investigate crimes, not individuals. >> thats why im asking the question. i would like a yes or no answer. are there names mentioned under this redacted portion of this memo? >> as i mentioned before, that memo props up a confidential investigation, as is every department of justice -- >> simple question, mr. whitaker. are there names, specific american names, mentioned in this redacted, 70% redacted memo that happens two and a half months after the ...

>> thank you, general whitaker. do you agree with the presidents statement that the russia investigation is a witch hunt? >> as i mentioned previously, congressman, i think it would be inappropriate for me to comment about an ongoing investigation. >> well, you commented about the roger stone investigation, which is ongoing, did you not? >> congressman, just to be clear about this -- >> you did comment -- i mean we heard you comment on the roger stone investigation. why would you comment on the ...

I obviously know the traditions of the department of justice, rules and regulations. i do follow those as i exercise the duties as acting attorney general. >> you gave that answer to a similar question but not this question here. thats not what im asking. what im asking is, as we sit here today, a year and a half later, has your opinion changed from what you stated in june, has it changed? >> counsel, the special counsel investigation is an ongoing investigation and im not going to characterize ...

Foundation of accountability and trust. we filed ethics complaints against members of both parties. >> can you tell me which republicans you filed ethics complaints against? >> all of -- again, im here for an oversight hearing. >> hearing -- >> yes, you are, my questions are leading to that. so can you answer that, which republicans did you file investigation or ask for ethics investigations of? >> the nice thing about being an ethics watch dog group is that fact filed all of its complaints on i...

Its december 18th, the answer would be yes or no or some other date. >> when hes trying to ask a question in the way hes asked. >> point of order. >> the gentleman is out of order. mr. johnson has the floor. >> and i would like to -- >> time will be restored. >> thank you, sir. sir, isnt it a fact that career officials at doj recommended to

Justice, we had a very successful initiative called project safe neighborhood. it was a program that took guns out of the hands of criminal offenders. it was a successful program that was killed by the obama administration. the obama justice department ended it. i understand that it has been reinstated during the trump administration. i would like you to inform us about its progress as well as any other measures or programs or enforcement priorities of the department of justice with respect to r...