Elevating Whitaker News Today

Now whitaker has taken the job of overseeing the investigation, and he is fighting back against accusations that hes going to try to rein in or undermine the probe. bloomberg news reports the acting attorney general has told associates that the justice department under his new leadership will not cut the budget for muellers investigation, even though the only place that suggestion came from was him in this interview. he specifically put that idea out there as an option last year on tv, available...

Leadership will not cut the budget for muellers investigation, even though the only place that suggestion came from was him in this interview. he specifically put that idea out there as an option last year on tv, available for everyone to see. this is not hard gijournalistic work for us. he also continued to field questions about whether his ability to be acting attorney general was constitutional. noting the city currently has four cases proceeding against the department of justice, that name f...

Macarthur in korea. im going in behind rosenstein. im going to make the whole probe by mueller ineffective because i have the attorney general on my team now. in the 2017 interview, just months after mueller began his probe, this new guy, matt whitaker, said it was ridiculous that deputy attorney general rod rosenstein appointed a special counsel. he said it was ridiculous that there even was a probe by mueller. heres the new attorney general of the united states, ladies and gentlemen. here he g...

Story, giuliani has pushed the timeline again and again on the interview and the written responses to robert muellers team. the president has shown really no inclination at this point to really sit down and answer verbal questions. and the question is, what is the extent really of these written questions? is it just a few lines about the comey firing? what else? >> well, what about -- let me go back to betsy who broke the story about whitaker and his m.o. and his job application, which took mont...

United states. here he goes. >> lets assume that the president asked him to stop investigating flynn. that doesnt rise to the level of obstruction of justice and it doesnt sound to me based on whats been reported that jim comey, as he sat there, believed that the president was telling him to stop the investigation. >> liz hultsman, i dont know the law like you do. obstruction of justice, the president may have done it again. but theyre not going to stop him, it seems, because it is within his le...

>> you know his chief of staff was going to cut him out? >> its pretty clear that whitaker had a stronger line to trump than sessions did by the end there. i think costa, if you want -- >> do you think trumps in better shape now to get re-elected than he was three or four days ago or not? >> i dont know. i think hes about to go through two bad years, and the whole country is about to get torn up in this, probes, investigations, side stuff in washington, when i would argue whats important is seri...

He reacts like a wounded animal would. >> a guy from queens. >> like a wounded animal from new york, from the streets. acts like a wounded animal because this is him punching back and pushing back. i do think that the letter was planned to sort of take the midterms out of the news a little bit and sort of give him a little more of a pulpit, but the truth is, i expected him to react this way. he doesnt react any other way. >> whos behind him? somebody is thinking through these steps, putting whit...

>> you say legal. that means the supreme court hes just stacked with his guy, with his deciding vote, is going to pull away his new acting attorney general? you really think this supreme court led now by the decisive vote of brett kavanaugh, who also was picked because hes a trump guy, who believes in -- right? this guy, bret stephens, and this guy, matt whitaker, all believe in strengthening the power of the president. >> well, i mean, look. were going to find out if whitaker actually tries to ...

He argued in an op-ed that mueller would be going too far by investigating trumps finances. and he questioned the fbi raid of paul manaforts house saying, do we want our government to intimidate us? well, tonight, were also now learning that whitaker has prejudged the results of the mueller investigation itself. betsy woodruff of the daily beast is reporting in a radio interview in june of last year, whitaker who now oversees the russian probe, comes to the conclusion that the president did not ...

Thirdly -- >> who enforces those subpoenas? what court? >> well -- >> ha. >> well, maybe. >> you think kavanaugh, his first major act in history, is going to be the fifth vote? >> you should know this. congress can actually haul someone who is in contempt of congress into their office. >> sergeant in arms? >> you betcha. >> thats absurd. >> theyre going to send the sergeant in arms to go to the white house and demand the president show up. >> if trump wants to make himself look guilty, the quick...