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Sessions might try to shut it down. >> i can see where jeff sessions is replaced with a recess appointment and the attorney general doesnt fire mueller but reduces his budget so low that the investigation grinds to a halt. >> reporter: rosenstein who rarely talks about the mueller probe offers words of assurance that the president sun tainted. >> bob mueller or rod rosenstein or matt whitaker or bill barr, that investigation is going to be handled appropriately by the department of justice. >> r...

Even for high positions, this weekend there was an alarm sounded about the hearings that are due to start this week. "as the director of oge, the announced hearing schedule for several nominees who have not completed the ethics review process is of great concern to me. im not aware of any occasion in the four decades since oge was established when the senate held a confirmation hearing before the nominee had completed the ethics review process. this schedule has created undue pressure on staff a...

Established when the senate held a confirmation hearing before the nominee had completed the ethics review process. this schedule has created undue pressure on staff and has left some nominees with potentially unknown or unresolved ethics issues shortly before their hearings. today, they have not received initial draft disclosure reports from some of the nominee who is are scheduled for hearings. it would be cause for alarm if the senate were to go forward with hearings on nominees whose reports...

Even they, in that process, missed tom daschles secret show officer and the distracting, time wasting withdrawal of his nomination in the early days of the presidency. the obama administration was really good at this and even they had some hiccups. the incoming trump administration doesnt seem to be so concerned. several weeks of reports that the vetting process has been haphazard or even nonexistent, even for high positions, this weekend there was an alarm sounded about the hearings that are du...

Possible. even they, in that process, missed tom daschles secret show officer and the distracting, time wasting withdrawal of his nomination in the early days of the presidency. the obama administration was really good at this and even they had some hiccups. the incoming trump administration doesnt seem to be so concerned. several weeks of reports that the vetting process has been haphazard or even nonexistent, even for high positions, this weekend there was an alarm sounded about the hearings t...

The four decades since oge was established when the senate held a confirmation hearing before the nominee had completed the ethics review process. this schedule has created undue pressure on staff and has left some nominees with potentially unknown or unresolved ethics issues shortly before their hearings. today, they have not received initial draft disclosure reports from some of the nominee who is are scheduled for hearings. it would be cause for alarm if the senate were to go forward with hea...

Make slight alterations. they say theyre going to divest some. its not clear they would divest it all. were in a situation where it doesnt seem like ivanka, jared, mr. trump himself are going to disentangle themselves, avoid a conflict of interest, unless theyre browbeat by the press to do so because i dont think the republicans in congress are going to do so. its not clear a federal judge would rule jared kushner couldnt work at the white house. so the recourse has to be the media. >> i notice ...

Ethics review process and im going, but why did either one of them much less both of them clear him to intervene in a very extraordinary way and attempt to change the calculation of the very money that is now being asked to be clawed back from his mothers estate when, in fact, he took it out and was hoping to keep all of that $2 million. >> right, because initially, its my understanding his mothers investment with bernie madoff was $500,000 and over a course of several years, it went up to a net...