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General council at gambling and hospitality giant. when she is governor, you know she will be controlling the new york state gaming commission. a powerful body to say the least. they have a recusal process in place. but is this something that could potentially being a bigger issue? >> i think the governor to be is extremely focused on accountability and state government. thats the hallmark of who she is and what she is known for. there is a recusal process. his businesses were closely reviewed b...

Number one, will the administration comply? number two, when officials do say im willing to sit in the chair decide to play a little tarzan. we have a subpoena for you when he says hes willing to come. is that the right way or did the democrats fear they needed that power? whats with the subpoena? >> i think we can say with certainty that the justice departments goal is not to talk about the great work the justice department has been doing. they are sending a warning shot to whitaker saying, its...

Traditionally done business which is based on the facts and the law and free from politics. >> are you worried that he will now try to interfere? >> so i am hopeful he will not. and a letter sent to congress this evening which sort of laid out the status of the recusal process and the ultimate result committed that he would not, that he would dhoingz the right way, with integrity. but look, the whole reason that these ethics rules exist is not just that things be done on the level in the right w...

Recommendation and advice he should recuse himself and remains in charge of the investigation of the president, and thats really troubling and disturbing and it does raise the question whether he was selected and put there in order to specifically oversee the mueller probe with a thumb on the scale, and that is completely contrary to how the department of justice is supposed to and traditionally has done business, which is based on the facts and the law and free from politics. >> are you worried...

And the rules are very strict that you cant pass along any grand jury information. for example, the fact of an indictment. how would he do it? picking up the phone and talking to the president. i think, though, katy, its not clear that hes actually taken the reins yet. i believe that we would probably know if the recusal process had played out and he had decided either to thumb his nose at it and ignore it or they had advised him that he had a green light, which i think is unlikely here. so if t...

Now, what that conflict of interest is, specifically, we dont know. the recusal process is opaque in part because its hard to report on, but in part because there are rules around how much theyre supposed to disclose about this stuff. but theres a question about with the cohen stuff now getting super red hot and with rudy giuliani trying to negotiate an end to the mueller investigation, a week from tomorrow, with the president promising that hes going to personally review documents -- personally...

He is not involved in the michael cohen case. we learned that right after -- we learned recently right after he took over the southern district of new yorks job in january, mr. berman notified justice officials in washington he had a possible appearance of a conflict of interest in the michael cohen case. those officials at d.o.j. in washington reportedly determined that jeff berman shouldnt oversee the cohen investigation even as he took this job in the southern district of new york. now, what ...