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>> the committee will come to -- i will point out we didnt enforce the five-minute rule on acting attorney general whitaker. >> reporter: whitaker denies any conversations with the president or other white house officials about the special counsels investigation, which whitaker overseas before or after he took over the top spot at the doj. >> at no time has the white house asked for nor have i promised any promises or commitments concerning the special counsels investigation or any other investi...

Will point out that we didnt enforce the five-minute rule on acting attorney general whitaker. >> whitaker didnt deny if anything regarding the white house investigation which whitaker oversees before of after he took over the top spot at the doj. >> at no time has the white house talked to nor have i promised concerning the special counsels investigation or any other investigation. >> its a yes or no question? have you communicated anything youve learned about the investigation to president tru...

Insult. i say it because the company has already been shut down by the federal trade commission and was ordered to pay a $26 million settlement against these fraud claims from the federal government. matt whitaker among other things is believed to have defied that settlement, to not pay back his share of the proceeds from the fraud. hes reported to have dodged a subpoena for his own records and communications with the company at the heart of the fraud. "the wall street journal" has also reported...

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...

1989, the supreme court ruled in u.s. v. eaton that a principle office like this is constitutional if the person has served in that office for 90 days, which whitaker has. so, is it a constitutional crisis? >> i dont think so. theres very well respected legal experts who have weighed in, saying that they think this is an unconstitutional appointment. i dont agree. when i was in the department, there were numerous instances where we had temporary acting people, sometimes staff people if the attor...

Multiple times on the phone. then theres the way in which whitaker got his initial job working with sessions. it was actually the white house, not the doj, that pushed for sessions to hire him as his chief of staff. and at one point, there was even talk of whitaker changing jobs. according to "the new york times," former white house counsel don mcgahn interviewed whitaker about joining trumps legal team to serve as an attack dog against robert mueller, the same robert mueller whitaker has now be...

Rosenstein before matt whitaker takes over. so if thats the case if they were pipelined if theyve already been, the word some would use socialized within the department of justice, which just means gone through and given the green light because bob mueller is not king of the hill. hes not ken starr. he has to report up. >> he has a boss. >> then, sure, those can come forward, but he could, if they have not been socialized in that way, meaning if they have not been approved already by rod rosenst...

The -- thats one example of a way in which whitaker could try to kneecap mueller. name a couple other ways in which he could try to kneecap mueller and also, and this will open up a larger discussion of this, talk a little about how bob mueller, given that none of the things that have happened here were not readily anticipatable. what he can do to circumvent efforts to kneecap mueller. >> one thing whitaker could do is fail to defend the legal decisions by the special counsel. if the special cou...

Committee or intelligence committee, once they take office as the majority in january, could they subpoena the justice department and get a lot of these answers about what whitaker is up to right now with the kind of information is he getting, is he getting sensitive information from the mueller team and then going over to the white house and sharing that information with the president and his legal team? >> certainly they would be able subpoena documents, for example, if ethics officials did pr...