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President and say, yes, in fact, his comments were racist, there is a problem there. and, of course, theyre racist. lawmakers, they get involved in the job because they want to make a difference and they want to make a change. so the sign that ilhan omar, our congresswoman, wants to make changes is a sign that she loves the country, not the opposite. >> the immediate offenses of the presidents tweets aside, did the president have a successful week in achieving his goal of making the far left the...

Which the justice department makes those decisions. in any case, berman was off the case, recused. what the times says is the president or the white house ask whitaker to put bemplen back on, and whitaker said he couldnt do that or declined to do that, because berman was recused. the justice department spokeswoman has a statement pushpush ing back to some extent, pointing out that when whitaker testified, he said, quote -- at no time has the white house asked for nor have i provided any promises...

Investigation or other investigations." so a pushback to some extent against the story. >> hard to know what the parsing in that means. is that an absolute denial? is that a "new york times" is reporting is wrong? >> well, the statement is just as gave it to you. i think -- i think that the gravamen of the statement is that. -- >> but a promise or a commitment is not the same as a request. >> and this was into michael cohen. so im wondering whether thats the distinction. >> the question was -- o...

Weve seen. >> to that point, he pressured jeff sessions. what weve heard about the campaign, they didnt make a direct request. the statement is there was no promise or commitment. isnt there something different between whitaker promising or committing to change out the person working on the investigation to the president, asking him, hey, man, can you work on that? like, is there a situation where the statement that were getting from the doj is some world-class wordsmithing? >> im going to let t...

And then again when he was asked by congresswoman zoe lofgren about it, she says -- she was asking him -- im looking back at the trip -- generally speaking this issue of whether he was asked to do anything about the russia investigation, and he says -- i can assure this committee before being appointed -- before appointing me to this position, the president did not ask for nor did i provide any commitments, promises concerning the special counsels investigation or any other investigation. of cou...

Consistent, then they have to prosecute everyone for false statements. beyond that, beyond any criminal liability, it becomes more of a pr committee. to the extent there was any report generated internally, that may help. the reality is, mccabes number one concern is a potential prosecution and a grand jury being convened for his alleged false statements in the investigation. >> has anyone from the gang of eight made a statement since he said this? >> i dont believe they have. see, they make a h...

Example, comey to lay off flip, and that is related to the russia investigation, this may all fall within the ambit of the mueller teams investigation into russian collusion. >> youre a defense lawyer. put yourself in the position of become andrew mc kays lawyer. he was fired for lying about his interactions with the media. that might affect his cleblt. he says i told congressional leaders about this. he knows the gang of eight have rules about what they can say publicly or not. so if someone se...

Theyre asking to vote for them. instead of listening, paying attention to their very real concerns about whether its terrorism or the economy or what have you and i just think thats not a good recipe for success. >> jeffrey toobin, do you think donald trump knows what hes doing here? do you think he knows the strings hes pulling and the bull buttons hes pushpushing? >> absolutely. i dont know if hes a fascist or not but the idea that you could take a religion and say that all the people in that ...