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>> i like the florida look there. its solid. we saw that matthew whittaker. we made public the comments criticizing the special counsels investigation over past months before the president chose him to oversee that investigation. we also noted that he wrote a usa today op-ed titled i would indict hillary clinton. he went on to say when the facts in evidence show a criminal violation is committed the individuals involved should not dictate whether the case is prosecuted. now whittaker is presiden...

So what will happen is once the person is actually arrested and brought forward, they will unsealed by a judge. so as soon as the arrests are made, theyll be made public. now whittaker could take actions to make the indictments go away after that happens, but thats got to involve a judge. the public will at least know about the indictments which is going to be huge in this case. thats what we want to know. we want to know who has been indictmented we want to know the contents of the investigatio...

Whid spread criticism of his past comments against the mueller investigation and recusing himself. >> whisker i dont know him. he worked for jeff sessions. he was always extremely highly thought of. he still is. i didnt know whittaker. he worked for attorney general sessions. he was very highly thought of. and still is. but this only comes up because anybody that works for me, they do a number of them. mat whittaker is a smart man. >> just to review. the president claims not to know his own choi...

Make matt whittaker his acting attorney general, a move that puts a critic of the probe in charge of it. >> i didnt know matt whittaker. he worked for attorney general sessions. he was very, very highly thought of and still is highly thought of, but this only comes up because anybody that works for me, they do a number on them. >> reporter: the president repeatedly claimed he didnt know whittaker. >> i dont know matt whittaker. >> reporter: but thats not true if you believe what mr. trump told "...

States claims to know who he is. >> i dont know him. he worked for jeff sessions. he was extremely highly thought of and he still is. i didnt know matt whittaker. >> he clearly does know whittaker well enough to appoint him acting ag. he told fox news he knew whittaker last month. >> i can tell you hes a great guy. i know matt whittaker. >> i mean we have the tapes. come on. back in september the new york times reported on the good relationship the two men share. critics arent concerned with him...

Been sold the fact that there was some really good information that they needed to hear and having been in campaigns, i know what that pitch looks like and you would always have somebody from the campaign take that meeting and hear that person out. >> whittaker made his feelings about the russia probe crystal clear in an opinion piece for cnn back in august of 2017. the headline, "muellers investigation of trump is going too far." joining us now is cnn crime and justice reporter, shimon prokupec...