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Matt whitaker of course is also apparently supervising the russia investigation now being carried out by robert muellers special counsel office, despite whitakers extensive public remarks criticizing that investigation and despite his own close relationship with a key player in the russia scandal. the trump campaign national chairman, same clovis, who hired and supervised both carter page and george papadopoulos during the time period when their behavior attracted so much attention from the fbi ...

Personally and specifically as to whether he had been involved in issuing legal threats to defrauded customers of this sham company who threatened to complain or make public their experience being ripped off by this firm with which whitaker was associated. matt whitaker of course is also apparently supervising the russia investigation now being carried out by robert muellers special counsel office, despite whitakers extensive public remarks criticizing that investigation and despite his own clos...

Steps into the department and has such a clear conflict of interest. but i would imagine that before he was appoint today this position, he must have had some kind of conversation with trump saying, im not going to recuse myself in this investigation. it would be impossible to believe that they did not have that conversation given the entire fiasco that happened with the first attorney general jeff sessions. >> ken, what do you think? >> the thing about these ethics rules, chris, is there is a l...

Believe that they did not have that conversation given the entire fiasco that happened with the first attorney general jeff sessions. >> ken, what do you think? >> the thing about these ethics rules, chris, is there is a lot of wiggle room. even if hes advised that he probably should recuse himself, its very rare that the rules say you must, and its not clear that any of this stuff, appearance of impartiality, him knowing sam clovis, a witness in the case, it is not clear that requires his recus...

Might be on my twitter. hes a hard right politician. and hes been denouncing the mueller investigation as the commentator on cnn before he joined the justice department. the new york times said he did that to get donald trumps attention in hopes of getting a job. its pretty clear to reasonable people that trump brought this man in as a way of reigning in robert mueller. im not sure that will work at this point, though, but its very clear that many people think he should recuse himself because he...

And two, he had a relationship with one of the -- with a person, sam clovis, who was overseeing papadopoulos on the campaign. obviously papadopoulos has pled guilty to a crime. hes part of the mueller investigation. and whitaker was -- had a political relationship with him, with his boss, sam clovis, in iowa. so theres that connection. so the question is, does that trigger enough -- is that enough of a trigger where he should completely recuse himself? thats where the ethics lawyers at the justi...

That it just seems from all the circumstances that it is because of those views that he prejudged about this investigation and about mueller, that trump picked him. and thats just wrong. >> phil, your door opens the reporting to the career staff at the department of justice. every cabinet agency has them. they have worked for democrats as president, theyve worked for republicans. they are the people who make cabinet agencies go. they tend to care very deeply about the institution, especially if ...

In here this evening and talk about how many conflicts whitaker has, whether its representing sam clovis, whether its the reckless statements he makes. when i look at this through the eyes of a career prosecutor, when somebody takes a position there is no evidence of russian collusion, he hasnt seen a shred of evidence. he wasnt embedded in the mueller investigation. i think all of those things he would have presented to the professional responsibility office to see whether he had conflicts that...

He waited for mom to die. >> hed take more losses. >> glen, this is pretty broad daylight. hes just taken over basically the supervisor of the investigation of himself. >> chris, none of us are surprised that we see the president contradicting himself, he is completely untethered to the true. i thought we were going to come in this evening and talk about how many conflicts whitaker has, whether its representing sam clovis, the statements he makes when i look at this through the eyes of a career ...

>> its a conflict of interest, and he should be required to recuse from overseeing the russia investigation. in fact, i suspect that the ethics professionals that attorneys in the justice department go to for advice on ethical matters will advise him he must recuse. he has if not an actual conflict, certainly the appearance of a conflict, which is the standard that people in doj use. and, john, its really important to note that the doj conflict standards require lawyers to recuse if they have a ...