the person that donald trump was trying to get around is rod rosenstein, who is in charge of the mueller investigation. and republicans i talked to this week said more than anything they felt, and these were just their opinions, that trump wanted information. what is going on in the mueller investigation? what has he not been able to get from rod rosenstein? if you put in matt whitaker, someone who has been reported to be a white house loyalist, then maybe you get that information. maybe. jim. talu, white house reporter for bloomberg news joining us now. the president s comments on whitaker, distancing himself, it seemed, though also endorsing him, saying he s very, very highly thought of, but saying multiple times i don t know him. there s a new york times story out today of discomfort in the white house with the reaction, negative reaction to whitaker. in your reporting, is the president is the
morning, just making it worse by talking too much and giving this information that the white house did not know about. from my sources, the white house is very upset. i ve been told about this conversation, this phone call that they had with him this morning. it was very contentious, that he didn t feel he needed to talk to the white house about it. so she from that podium, sarah huckabee sanders herself, said that she found out about it while she was watching, like all of us, fox news last night, when new jersey was there. so knowing that, from what she said, and hearing from my sources about this call this morning about how the white house wanted information, rudy giuliani was like, i don t have to give you anything. you know, that s where that question came from. you were blind-sided. she acknowledged she did not know. and then to go into the personal. it was not personal. it was not personal. what it shows me is that she was feeling that she was in a vise of sorts.
no idea who you were? no, no, no. you sure about that? absolutely. so the exterminator and i went inside and closed the door behind us. just searched the apartment. and in one of the backpacks, in ethan mack s backpack, was some chinese money chinese currency. keith morrison: chinese money? yes, just like the chinese bills james saw in kate s bedroom. janice waring had brought those bills to kate from hong kong souvenirs. had ethan stolen them? i put it here on this pole. keith morrison: time to stir things up, apply some pressure. and bobby minter knew just how. bobby went out and put on every telephone pole, every vacant house, every oak tree, every stop sign, wanted information. missing person kate waring s poster. right around where all those people hung out. wherever they went, including on mack s windshield when he was working that day, we put posters.
did you know the choctaw tribe and the native word for oklahoma means red people. are all of these people in congress and senators standing up and demanding that oklahoma change the name of their state? i mean, it means red people. we don t call california black people, red people, purple people, any of that. where s the outrage for that? maybe that s the next thing. maybe there will be a moment to change the name of oklahoma. you might have started it right here. jim, thank you very much. we all learned something tonight. thanks, martha. see you next time. so it s been a week really of bombshell after bombshell in this irs targeting scandal. so many people scratching their heads saying, boy, would i ever get away with something like this if my hard drive didn t work and the irs wanted information? just ahead, our guest says this is just the latest he believes in a long line of government deceptions with no real accountability. plus, a new free speech fight that is linked t