Given Whitaker News Today

Concerning muellers probe, how he got the job and cnns reporting about how the president unloaded on whitaker in terms of how the southern district of new york has been going after the presidents former lawyer, michael cohen. they wanted to question him given whitakers performance just last week when he unexpectedly blurted out some news about how the special counsels probe is winding down. take a listen to how that went down. >> i have been fully briefed on the investigation. i look forward to ...

Couple different levels the first of which being we know whitaker is on record critical of the mueller investigation. beyond that, there is this long held norm, the wall between the white house and the justice department when it comes to criminal investigations. it appears as though trump didnt learn the lesson, we know reporting from the former fbi director james comey how he, the president, allegedly asked him to make the flynn matter go away, for example. it was reported to the "new york time...

Since whitaker was appointed, we have, in fact, seen no new indictments from mueller and his team. now, if youre worried about the importance and the integrity of the mueller investigation, if youre worried about the possibility that it might be shut down behind the scenes, given the importance of what that investigation is into, its a little unsettling to recognize that if matt whitaker is throttling the mueller investigation within the justice department, if hes blocking new indictments, say, ...

The story on the house, of course, democrats have a net gain of 39 seats in the house. heres the outstanding one. the 21st district of california. this is the central valley part of the state. t.j. cox, the democrat, remember, california, every night you get a batch of new votes. last night, he took the lead over david valadao, republican incumbent, by 436 votes. we are -- we dont know exactly how many votes are left. we think it is somewhere between 1,000 and 5,000 votes left to be counted. cal...

Indictment, and then mueller brings to it the justice department to whitaker to whom he reports for whitaker to sign off on it and whitaker says nope, ill take that and he stuffs into it a desk drawer, how would we know? its not like anybody has to make an announcement than. how would we know if thats what has been happening ever since matt whitaker arrived three weeks ago tomorrow? thats why it is all the more interesting that tonight we are getting a first look at what might be robert muellers...

This is a completed county. this is the only one where we got 100% reporting right now, and espy is running 5 points better with 100% than obama did in 2012. he needs six points on average statewide. >> thats fascinating. steve kornacki, thank you, my friend. please peep if there are any changes we need to know about while we continue our broadcast this hour. all right. to the other major story weve been watching unfold over the course of this afternoon into this evening. as you know, on the m...

About the investigation. including the decision to bring new indictments, stick a pin in that, also, any decision to make any sort of public report or any other major steps. since whitaker was appointed, we have, in fact, seen no new indictments from mueller and his team. now, if youre worried about the importance and the integrity of the mueller investigation, if youre worried about the possibility that it might be shut down behind the scenes, given the importance of what that investigation is ...

Investigation behind the scenes. with mueller now reporting to matt whitaker, the regulations that govern the special counsels office essentially say that mueller has to run by whitaker any major decisions about the investigation. including the decision to bring new indictments, stick a pin in that. also, any decision to make any sort of public report or any other major steps. since whitaker was appointed, we have in fact seen no new indictments from mueller and his team. now if youre worried ab...

Seats for democrats on the house side. thats the last remaining seat left in congress. over to you, rachel. >> all right, now, to the other major story weve been watching unfold over the course of this aft afternoon and this evening. as you know, president trump fired jeff sessions and installed in his place a man named matt whitaker. given whitakers previous report of highly critical statements about robert mueller and the russia investigation, and mr. whitakers otherwise thin and sort of troub...

Just wanted to get your reaction to that. i feel like its very unusual to see what is in effect a draft indictment, to see any court documents in a legal proceeding. >> it is. i imagine what would have taken place here is the special counsel would have presented this packet to corsi and his lawyers so that he could be sure, okay, this is what im prepared to plead guilty to, this is what the cooperation agreement will say. this is what im admitting. so it wouldnt be unusual to provide that in det...