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Wing. cnn learning president trump has been lashing out at his acting attorney general, over the michael cohen case. and the acting a.g. is facing criticism on another front. here live in the cnn newsroom, dont go anywhere. ♪ can you feel it

Letter with a stinging rebuke of the president, leaving massive concerns about the future of trumps foreign policy. the russia probe is also hanging over his head. he is lashing out at acting attorney general, matt whitaker. the president saying why didnt he do more to control those that brought the charges against michael cohen. start with the shutdown. 800,000 federal workers are in limbo, days before christmas. suzanne malveaux joins us live from capitol hill. what are we expecting? >> go...

Runways are thousand back up n the airport aims to run a full schedule on this saturday. sources are telling cnn that president trump is lashing out at acting attorney general matthew whitaker. >> and the reason raises questions about what mr. trump wants the justice department and his attorney general to do for him. our u.s. justice reporter laura jarrett has this story for us. >> reporter: new details are emerging about the presidents anger over how his attorney and long time fixer michael c...

Whitaker is ignoring advice from an ethics official at the department of justice who recommended whitaker recuse himself from overseeing the mueller investigation. instead, whitaker is staying on. i want to bring in special agent ap analyst josh campbell. josh closely worked with former fbi director james comey. what does this new reporting tell you,oabo about why trump pd whitaker to begin with? >> so there were fears out there people concerned about the rule of law, why would you install someb...

For trump and for whittaker both. he was installed as the acting attorney general and has always had a constitutionally tenuous claim to that position since he never, you know, was confirmed by the senate. the attorney general is a very very big job. its a big deal. and this guy was a constitutional nobody, and really the presidents lackey, and really the only reason he was put in really for that job was because president trump wanted someone to control the investigation into him. thats what it ...

The president and that being an honor. so i think it was a real slap in the face to the president, and ive never seen him in the past be able to absorb that kind of slight without lashing out. >> i want to play something that we heard from the president today about the house-passed funding bill that included money for the wall. watch this. >> we were told that you would never get the house to vote. well, we were able to get the house to vote, and it wasnt that we did it. they did it. they about ...

Basically whitaker has been the subject of lashing out by trump on two occasions about the professional jobs done by the southern district of new york justice department prosecutors. so look, i think the bottom line here is even if whitaker could have been acting attorney general, even if he could have supervised the mueller investigation, because of the ethics advice he got yesterday, which seems dubious on its own, but in any event, now he cant. its over for him. he compromised, trump compromi...

Lashing out at his acting attorney general. well explain why. also ahead, the resignation heard round the world. u.s. allies are stunned that the adult in the trump administration has left the room. well have more about what mr. trump thinks about that characterization. youre watching "newsroom." what do harvard graduates know about cognitive performance? as youd probably guess, a lot. thats why a new brain health supplement called forebrain from the harvard-educated experts at force factor is...

Their personal views ahead of anything, including protecting the president personally. now, he has his own lawyers, thats their job. the attorney general works for the people. >> the tomorrow, though, does, i guess, you know, fall in the chain of command underneath the president. but should president trump even be discussing a potential case that he is implicated in with the attorney general or anyone in the justice department, for that matter? >> anna, even giving the participants of that conve...

I consider that an asset, not a liability. >> the american troop withdrawals along with the resignation left americas allies in europe and across the world, stunned. >> this is a day americas allies have been dreading and fearing and hoping wouldnt come. >> and even the presidents staunchest allies at home not pulling punches. >> secretary mattiss departure is devastating news to national security and to the pentagon. >> as for mattiss replacement, finding someone on the same page as the preside...