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And on and on it has looked more and more like the blueaway wavt didnt come. that has to be weighing on him among other things. the questions do keep coming. history battling with the press as per usual and hes headed over to this event to mark the armistice, but where hes going to be with a bunch of different world leaders. hes not a particularly happy traveler either. >> were getting that impression after two years of this. mimi, i know mr. whitaker had been a u.s. attorney, but how can a whit...

$130,000 payment to stormy daniels? then why did michael cohen make it if there was no truth to the allegations? >> you have to ask michael cohen. michaels been my attorney and youll have to ask michael. >> do you know where he got the money to make that payment? >> no. >> then in august after michael cohen implicated the president, trump said he learned about both payments later on. >> did you know about the payments? >> later on i knew. later on. but you have to understand, what he did -- they...

According to our reporting about whitaker. for a couple of reasons. one, to the point mimi was speaking of, he seems to have a conflict of interest with the russia probe given his past statements, given his connection, for example, to sam clovis who is a political friend and ally from iowa but happens to be a witness in the mueller probe. the other piece of this, though, people in the justice department dont feel hes qualified for this job, that he simply doesnt have sort of the qualifications a...

Today stemmed from months of investigations and now michael cohen is presumably going in there and backing up a lot of that. >> mimi, you know your way around a keyboard and the feds offices in new york. 80 pages gets your attention. thats kind of impressive. >> yes. i mean, thats speaking indictment for sure. not just laying out the charges and the bare facts. we dont know how much of that, you know, conduct or charges since that was -- how much that included trump. but its an important fact be...

Inside the justice department according to our reporting about whitaker. for a couple of reasons. one, to the point mimi was speaking of, he seems to have a conflict of interest with the russia probe given his past statements, given his connection, for example, to sam clovis who is a political friend and ally from iowa but happens to be a witness in the mueller probe. the other piece of this, though, people in the justice department dont feel hes qualified for this job, that he simply doesnt hav...

So its all tied together. >> yeah. and john, that point mimi just made about brett kavanaughs minimizing of his drinking is crucial to his defense because he cant admit he has any memory lapses because that opens up a theoretical window to does he have a memory lapse about dr. ford? and so we have his friends from yale going to a point of having to get together, write an op-ed piece -- they say we each asserted that brett lied to the senate by stating under oath he never drank to the point of fo...

Telling the truth, which by the way a lot of people thought she was after they heard her, and thats gotten erased. and most importantly they really needed to do a probing questioning of kavanaugh. he has not had that. that hearing was not a questioning. it was essentially him giving a written statement but orally. i didnt do it, i never did it but thats it. he was not pres said on it. he was not tested with facts about the drinking, which is relevant to the central issue of -- because if he admi...