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We did get a half type and to get to that, you had to boil off a ton of nonsense. here is the reduction of actual information in matt whitakers testimony today. to get there you have to cut out non-sense water drinking so what we did here is just cut this down to the question whitaker was asked and what he got around to saying in answer to the question. >> yes or no, since your appointment as acting attorney general, have you been briefed on criminal or counter intelligence matters within the sp...

Handling of the mueller investigation which remember he had prejudged and criticized before getting this job. >> have you been briefed on criminal or counter intelligence matters within this special counsels per view. >> thank you for that question. as you know, i cannot talk about on going investigations. >> you can say whether youve been briefed or not. >> i have been briefed on it. >> have you communicated anything, you learned in that briefing about the investigation to president trump? yes ...

Let me start with something chris christie said about this on this network overnight. i find it interesting? >> theres no restrictions on the per view. bob mueller has a task russian interveerns. the southern district of new york is whatever you want. >> particularly to find stuff. >> you have michael cohen as a tour guide. that means you could go anywhere. >> so the mueller investigation, this southern district investigation of the trump campaign financing improprieties connected to the trump o...

>> well, it means, basically, that a, that the d.c. district here, the u.s. attorneys here would take over any pending indictments, anything still going on that perhaps may have started with the special counsel, but is now outside of their per view, as weve seen in other situations like michael cohen and that basically as we were told yesterday but the acting attorney general the things are winding down and coming close to a finally here. it could mean that a, they are done pretty much and that ...

Counterintelligence investigation that was reported on by the "new york times" last week and they didnt say anything about that and thats supposedly in muellers per view, does that mean that thats true? >> maybe it does. i think you could draw that conclusion, that they did not rebut anything but you have to look at the exact specifics that were reported, just that he had been under investigation. it doesnt say they reached a conclusion. >> paul, this is how lawmakers initially reacted to the re...

The per view of the 9th circuit court of appeals. they would ask for some sort of emergency injunction to try to stop the president from even declaring the state of emergency. the president does have broad powers to declare states of emergency. were not sure exactly where hes going with this tomorrow night, but certainly he will be making this argument from the stand.of national security, which really could trigger a lot of that executive power that he has. >> dana: john roberts, thank you. the ...

But it is within the judges per view, and within his job to do that and to the look at everything. so it is -- then again, the judge may know that there are matters that flynn, you know, he has not cooperated on that he could have, and again, we dont know everything that the judge knows. i think that, you know, that he may be really just trying to get flynn to sort of stay with the program, if you will. >> and ben rhodes, out in california, who has been with s us. as a former national security o...

The perview of the immediate russia obstruction investigation. they handed it off to the southern district of new york. when the southern district of new york makes these sentencing recommendation, i dont know that they sent them to the office of the special counsel for approval. certainly the special counsel would have briefed on everything the southern district of new york knows and anything relevant would be referred back. there is no question there has to be open lines of communication here....

They also -- there were media reports saying the crown princes brother talked to khashoggi and said youre safe to go to the consulate in istanbul. this was not told to me in a briefing, it was told to me in a newspaper. i dont think thats how we should run the government. i was elected to somehow represent kentucky, i ought to be able to hear this intelligence information and try to make a decision on whether we should be sending arms to the regime. >> it would appear within the title this would...

Southe southern district of new york is beyond the perview of congress. >> he has to know im in possession of the tape that proves he knows what cohen was doing and endorsed it. >> yeah. i honestly have no idea what is going on in the southern district. if michael cohen is lying or telling the truth. it looks like michael cohen is a pretty od individual if you look at the way he threatened reporters and seemed like a tough guy when he wasnt. hes not somebody im a big fan of and not somebody that...