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Have been raised about his -- the appearance of you know conflict that he has when it comes to many of the things that are going on in this department and particularly when it comes to the fbi and things relating to the mueller investigation or russia. and i think whats really disconcerting is that his job is to avoid the appearance of any conflict. so even if he has decided not to recuse because of prior comments that hes made, he has an affirmative duty to mitigate any further appearance of yo...

Justices to change their mind. and i hoped i could do it. i didnt. >> it was a very unusual late-night ruling from the united states supreme court. the decision ending any lingering hope of a recount. >> the problem with bush v. gore was that it looked so partisan. >> it ended in a 5-4 vote with the conservatives in the majority. >> and so whats important here is to understand the bad taste in a lot of peoples mouths. the outcome of the 2000 election, i dont mean the fact that bush won. i mean t...

Immigrants attack and carjack americans. she reposted this claim of democratic voter fraud after the midterms with no proof at all. she has even derided republicans for not going after the left, who shes labeled as liberal fascists, one week after a nazi sympathizer killed a woman in charlottesville. one user responded to a recent post, youre literally married to a sitting supreme court justice and you put out this partisan propaganda. you tarnish the peoples faith in the court and you ought to ...

He has no mer merit on this judgment. i mean its just -- it was da castle in 1989 with the district attorneys office. he had nothing to say about mumia abu m-jamal. i dont know how leon tucker made the decision. >> heres what the judge is saying. the claim of bias, presumption and refusal of justice castill to recuse himself is worthy of conversation as true justice must be completely just without a hint of partiality. where is the judge coming up with this to suggest there might be presumptio p...

President trump has already put two justices on the supreme court, but some of his tweets have sparked questions about the partiality or impartiality of judges. dan springer takes a look at how the commander in chief can and cannot impact the courts. >> reporter: when u.s. district court judge john tygar blocked a plan, president trump railed against who he called the obama judge which drew this response from supreme court chief justice john roberts: we do not have obama judges or trump judges, ...

Concerns about the thoroughness and impartiality of the probe. what are you learning about this and what does it say about mueller investigation? >> what they take issue with is the fbi and the department of justice. they take an interesting look at what the special counsel is doing. they say the work the mueller team is doing is important. they say that they have made no e effort to discredit the work of the special counsel. they say whatever the special counsel does, whatever work, whatever it...

One user responded to a recent post, youre literally married to a sitting supreme court justice and you put out this partisan propaganda. you tarnish the peoples faith in the court and you ought to be ashamed of yourself. >> ginny thomas has every right to have whatever opinion she wants. she has every right as an individual to express those opinions publicly. the question is whether, by expressing those opinions publicly, she is calling into question -- she is providing fodder for those who wan...

Combine it with what has been going on between the president and whittaker, the president clearly communicating to get the southern district off my back. there are real questions about impartiality and the democratic congress can be a crucial check on that. >> you might wonder if that was the waving of a flag saying look at me for this job. in response to bars criticism, the deputy attorney general, he had some pretty strong words with this message included. he said obviously our decisions are i...

Perspective do friendly attorneys general have over the special counsel probe, if any, to hem it in as the president clearly desires them to do? >> its important that people realize that the attorney general has a lot of authority over mueller, that the special counsel regulations say that mueller needs to get approval from the attorney general for subpoenas, for significant investigative steps including search warrants and indictments. this is a person who will have say so over what mueller doe...

Person with knowledge of the relevant facts likely would question the impartiality of the acting attorney general. that appearance of a conflict not enough to convince whitaker to recuse. the justice department outlining his reasons in the same letter saying, ethics officials could find no personal or financial interest that would require recusal that whitaker had not made comments about the investigation since rejoining doj to work for jeff sessions and whitaker thought mueller was a good man a...