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Potential culpability? >> they are still questions with respect to her involvement with bill clinton getting on the plane on the conversation they have and just the general impartiality. why would hillary clinton fund this and what was the department of justice knowledge about it what was their involvement? with a partisan or were they neutral in their approach and enforcing the law? there still a lot of open questions. the mueller investigation through the email scandal are all intertwined beca...

If we prosecute crimes and people, we are really going down a slippery slope that a lot of third world countries operate under. 12 days left, if the democrats can it, what happens to them in the next election? is going to be for the american people to decide. do we want laws that are politically motivated and we have political prosecution? >> arthel: is the idea to improve that hillary clinton had nefarious activities going on in the election? and also, are any statutes of limitation that could ...

That this public relations-contras president is thinking about. its interesting to hear him tease that. i think im skeptical hes going to follow through. >> mike: what do you gentlemen make up the back and forth between the president and the chief justice of the supreme court? >> i think he is certainly not the first president to grumble about a court ruling going against him. against his administration. i think what is different here is the public way that he is going about it and the personal ...

>> lisa: even if the written format, what sort of legal liability does president trump face in answering these questions? >> sean: listen, if you have a prosecutor who is trying to catch you can say you fluid answering the question. >> lisa: do you think the case mueller? >> sean: im concerned. mueller is a republican and mueller was a conservative. but when you build your team around a whole bunch of democrat donors or hillary clinton donors that lean left, you lose the appearance of impartiali...

>> rachel: i think sean makes a great point. hes my husband. he makes a great point about the fact that he had an opportunity to put people on his team who at least have the appearance of impartiality and he didnt. why wouldnt he do that? >> julie: im wondering how the president feels though that whitaker would recuse himself because he was so hell-bent on jeff sessions not recusing himself and never forgave him for that then in the presidents defense it looks good for the president that he has ...

Candidates for attorney general, so why is he acting attorney general? to me, the answer seems pretty clear, which is this is a guy who said he didnt like the russia investigation, who apparently supported the president, and so theres going to be a lawsuit to determine if he needs to be senate confirmed. the investigation youre talking about should happen to see if the president is deliberately trying to obstruct that investigation. but if nothing else, its very clear the acting attorney general...

Mueller investigation and may make a decision to launch investigations against hillary clinton. i think thats the worst-case scenario here, but the previous statements give us some concern about him serving as an attorney general and his impartiality in that position. >> and jamie, were also learning that the white house now has formally delivered to robert mueller and his team the written responses to the written questions that they submitted involving whats called collusion during the campaign...

Further budgets would cease. so then with all of that said, does whitaker need to recuse himself? >> i dont think theres a question that he ought do that. the department has a long history of making sure that it remains in neutral ground. its not an arm of the president. its not fair to do the presidents bidding and that type of thing. just by making those statements, be having those contacts, by having relationships in matters that are at least sort of potential to the investigation, he clouds ...

Steps into the department and has such a clear conflict of interest. but i would imagine that before he was appoint today this position, he must have had some kind of conversation with trump saying, im not going to recuse myself in this investigation. it would be impossible to believe that they did not have that conversation given the entire fiasco that happened with the first attorney general jeff sessions. >> ken, what do you think? >> the thing about these ethics rules, chris, is there is a l...

Believe that they did not have that conversation given the entire fiasco that happened with the first attorney general jeff sessions. >> ken, what do you think? >> the thing about these ethics rules, chris, is there is a lot of wiggle room. even if hes advised that he probably should recuse himself, its very rare that the rules say you must, and its not clear that any of this stuff, appearance of impartiality, him knowing sam clovis, a witness in the case, it is not clear that requires his recus...