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Campaign of the one and only sam clovis, a person interviewed in the mueller investigation. why would he be the west wings eyes and years according to "the new york times"? he sees the mueller probe as a lunch mob perhaps. as a cnn commentator said if mueller kept looking into trumps fans finances it would raise serious concerns, a mere witch hunt. >> jeff sessions is replaced with a recess appointment and that attorney general doesnt fire bob mueller but he just reduces the budget so low that h...

With the original mandate to investigate the election. >> yeah, youre absolutely right, lawrence. and thats just one of the troubling comments that matthew whittaker has made about the mueller investigation. i think the most notable comment in my opinion hes made is actually saying publicly that the trump tower meeting, which is at the heart of the investigation, is a meeting anyone would have taken. i dont know how he can fairly oversee this investigation and give anyone confidence about the in...

By saying "get grinch tickets" into your xfinity x1 voice remote. a guy just dropped this off. he-he-he-he. trump has installed a loyalist as acting attorney general, the man who authored a blueprint on how to starve the mueller investigation, matthew whitaker, before becoming jeff sessions chief of staff. he was a u.s. attorney in iowa for five years, the southern district of yeah, he ran for u.s. senate and lost the race, worked on iowa state treasurer campaign of the one and only sam clovis...

Sam clovis has come up. they became friends when they ran unsuccessfully when they ran for the gop nomination in iowa senate in 2014. say he gets an opinion from somebody in the ethics office saying you really shouldnt be a part of this. are we going to find out their opinion on that or could whittaker bury that and is there any recourse? >> those ethics opinions are not automatically made public. its possible that someone in that office could potentially leak such an opinion. its possible that ...

Position given hes clearly on television voicing his views on the mueller investigation and how we would handle it if he were in the position? >> thats something the ethics people are looking at right now. remember, jeff sessions recused himself from overseeing the russia investigation because he campaigned for the president. now, thats explicitly one of the reasons why in the justice department regulations a person has to recuse. if you campaign for someone who is under investigation. whether t...

Investigation and if he were in sessions job he would choke out the budget so it wouldnt exist anymore? >> its worse than that even because he is also somebody who was the campaign chair of a person in iowa who is now a witness before the grand jury in this investigation, sam clovis. look, the justice department has a process for this sort of thing. the ethics lawyers at the department advise senior officials when theres a question about whether they should recuse. that is of course exactly what...

Servers at the justice department, career lawyers who are already worried about the--o there is an idea here, a silver lining that shes short lived. he doesnt seem like someone who could be confirmed by the senate. >> no. >> that doesnt mean he cant do a lot of damage to the mueller investigation in that short period of time. >> thats the question, natasha. again, this looks to all the world like a loyalist who only has his job because hes a loyalist, whose paper trail on twitter and elsewhere i...

Statements about whether or not there was the commission of a crime without access to all the evidence and information that bob mueller has. so youre pre judging an investigation in the absence of having all the facts. he should be going directly to the office of ethics and asking whether or not he should recuse himself, but i agree with nick, its very hard to imagine he shouldnt. he also has a relationship with sam clovis who is essentially someone who has been talking to the mueller investigat...

Attorney general. >> matt mueller, you said yesterday that matt whitaker would need to or would likely be counselled to recuse himself from the russian probe. would chris christie have a similar set of circumstances that would let you to make a similar assessment? >> i think more black and white in chris christies case. matt whitaker will be a little gray area based on public statements and the fact he has close association with sam clovis. rod rosenstein is one of those that can tell the ethics...

Witch hunt, and he talked about a scenario much like the one he is in now in which an acting attorney general could slowly kill the mueller probe. >> so i could see a scenario where jeff sessions is replaced with a recess appointment, and that attorney general doesnt fire bob mueller but he just reduces his budget so low that his investigation grinds to almost a halt. >> were going to check in at the white house in just a moment and talk a little bit more about this chris christie development. l...