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Has taken money thats not been appropriated, and used it for a fake emergency. i think youve got a lot of obstacles before he gets to the supreme court. >> to play devils advocate, if you want to say this isnt politics, its just about l rth rule of law, we know the president loves to criticize the ninth circuit. he does, other republicans do. why file it there rather than somewhere else? >> well, the attorney general of california is leading the case, and thats his state. so thats why its been f...

Mueller is concerned. so gates will at some point give an account of what went on at that cigar bar meeting and that will help clarify at least to the extent we can what went on there. >> and more than likely it came from gates. but what manafort is so desperate to go in and tell a second round of lies knowing that without a pardon hell spend the rest of his life in jail, mueller knows about it and he knows the circumstances, he knows why he lied, he knows what he lied about, and what the underl...

Contacts. >> jared kushner had to revise his statements about russia, jeff session whos was on the campaign later the attorney general he had to represent advise his statements about russia. so it is -- its just extraordinary the number of people who lied, withheld information about this one subject. the one reason people lie is that they knew they were doing something wrong so they lie about it. >> i do want to read, the "washington post" has done reporting even before the judge ruled that mana...

Acting attorney general. but in fact, the report would go to matt whitaker. >> thank you. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i would like to remark mr. barr that your family is showing patience and endurance and that should be marked for the record. youre a lucky man. you know that about 30 plus states have legalized medical marijuana or adult use. youre aware of that, correct? >> yes. >> in 2018 attorney general jeff session rescinded the cole men random which provided guidance to u.s. attorneys that ...

Nominee for attorney general takes office. brian: been such a smooth tenure. griff jenkins live in washington. hey, griff, why now? >> this is breaking want fox news can confirm that the man overseeing the mueller investigation as you mentioned deputy attorney general rod rosenstein will depart in the coming weeks. around the time that his -- the presidents pick for attorney general william barr is confirmed. this comes as rosensteins rocky relationship with president trump has shown no signs of...

Ainsley: we thought he was going to step down when jeff sessions did and whitaker was appointed as the acting and thought he would at the step down then and he didnt. he stayed on. are you saying you think the report is complete. >> i think the report is largely complete. many of us expected the report to come out sometime at the end of the year beginning of the new year. there is some time that will be needed by congress. they are losing runway if they want to take off from this report. time is...

Country, which is this russia probe and makes it even worse. >> and, of course the questions we all have is how did whitaker respond to the president as he is having these conversations. we know nadler is demanding whitaker testify before the house judiciary committee. could we get answers then, or is this something whitaker would be able to claim executive privilege on? >> what an unnecessary debacle. right? this is all so avoidable. whether congress can get something out of acting attorney gen...

Justice department with the sacking of jeff session, sessions is out so trump can get a much more political player in that position. i think he is looking at getting rid of john kelly, mr. nuchen, kelly, for people in those positions that will protect him. >> absolutely. will continue to do his bidding. thank you for that. >> although, they did get fixens tax returns. so we can relive a lot of history. >> he may look okay after this term. >> he may look out all right. we will talk more about tru...

Investigation. we know that really bothered the president and was in some way as game changer for the posture that the president and his lawyers have taken towards mueller and the justice department since then, really upping and launching more attacks on them. >> and senator blumenthal, in terms of potential fallout here on capitol hill with your colleagues, im wondering about this issue of whitakers temporary appointment as attorney general, the administration fighting to keep him in there for ...

Right? again, the principle here is simple. the president can certainly replace anyone in his cabinet. there is nothing wrong with that in the abstract. but you cant do that sort of thing for the corrupt purpose of diverting or stymieing or getting some sort of advantage over an ongoing criminal investigation that the president fears might hurt him. but now today, like he did with the comey firing, the president has simply and bluntly volunteered thats thats in fact what he did, that thats in fa...