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Announcement of his national emergency. >> i want to wish our new attorney general great luck and speed and enjoy your life. bill, good luck. a tremendous reputation. i know youll do a great job. >> enjoy your life. meanwhile, there are reports that matt whitaker, who was the acting a.g., is still at the justice department, still on the federal payroll, serving as a senior counselor of some sort at doj. lets bring in our leadoff panel. frank figliuzzi. we want to welcome to the broadcast jessica...

>> lets figure out whats going on here. because, first of all, willie, we have been hearing from one yocal after another and we even heard from ty cobb back i think in 1873 that the mueller investigation was going to be done. and they keep saying its going to be over. this has all the classic markings of a frant ig -- frantic call from donald trump, an order, a scream. i keep hearing muellers over in february. they just busted roger stone. you have to have roger stone. i remember right before th...

Tenure. we saw sean spicer point to this when the issues with manafort first came into the spotlight. the fact is manafort was donald trumps campaign chairman during the most pivotal time of the campaign, during the republican national convention. i think it goes without saying that without paul manafort, donald trump would not be sitting in the oval office. but the fact of the matter is, there is just no other way to separate donald trump from the paul manafort. they are so inextricably intertw...

This news this morning. lets talk more about who these men are and how integral they were in the presidents campaign and a lot more. with us now, our chief political correspondent dana bash. lets start with paul manafort. thats the name people know better. both important when it comes to trump world. lets go through manafort first. >> paul manafort was officially in the campaign for not that long of a period of time but he was there at a critical, critical juncture. you see on the screen there h...