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Expected to be focused on his previous comments on whether he had contact with the president about the investigation into business dealings involving michael cohen, including hush money payments, excuse me. >> so as the "wall street journal" believes it has everyday the president asked the ag for the southern district of new york jeffrey berman, a trump ally could take back control. previous reports suggested there is no sign. whitaker acted on any request. according to journal the judiciary com...

Some issues surrounding the clinton foundation and hillary clinton. and patrick leahy said he is a man i have always respected and the best thing the administration can do is get somebody who would have ma skwro -- majority support. bar is somebody who has been confirmed before by the senate. >> thats true. on the other hand these are not normal times. what is happening is we have a president who just cares about appointing people who are going to do his bidding and thats not what we need as an ...

Acting attorney general has been confirmed by the senate for some position in the government. the president could have chosen someone like that. the deputy attorney general. the secretary of trans. any of those people confirmed by the senate. but he didnt. and maryland says, therefore, that choice of whitaker is illegal. theyre asking the judge for an order right away declaring that rosenstein is the stronger. >> he also said he didnt know matt whitaker and alas, he does. up next, a close asso...

Have a hard time. tell us whats going on today. >> asking a federal judge to declare the acting attorney general is rosenstein, not whitaker. the president put whitaker in under a federal law that allowed a president to choose a range of people, including somebody whos at the relevant agency for 90 days and makes a certain amount on the pay scale. maryland argues that law is trumped by a law that more specifically says whenever theres a vacancy in the office of the attorney general, the deputy a...

From the program entirely. garrett tenney has the latest. >> democrats argue that whitaker is essentially the president hatchet man appointed to destroy the mueller investigation. today top democrat also sent a letter to the justice department chief ethics official asking if hes the vice whitaker to recuse himself in the special account investigation similar to a former attorney general jeff sessions was told by ethics officials. if he doesnt recuse himself, democrats are vowing to launch invest...