president after he offered that unreliable, pointing to these very rare rebuke of him in the first place. remarks by the u.s. president. we'll see where this goes from >> the cia has looked at it. here. but it is the president fighting they have studied it a lot. with the chief justice of the supreme court on twitter. they have nothing definitive. and the fact is maybe he did. >> so kaitlyn, there is now a maybe he didn't. probe of the acting attorney >> whose side is the president taking here, saudi arabia's or general matthew whittaker. briefly explain what is involved the u.s.'s? in here. let's discuss. >> reporter: that's right. matt whitaker is the guy who was so samantha, quite a moment the chief of staff for jeff here, and i imagine predictable. sessions, now the acting attorney general at the justice the president undermines u.s. department. he is now having an intelligence agencies by investigation looked into him questioning their high because a watchdog group filed confidence assessment, which is some complaints with the office as high confidence or as of the special counsel that is definitive as intelligence separate from the special counsel that is robert mueller assessments get. and the saudis parrot that back. that is investigating russian interference in the election. how much of a problem is that but they had filed this for the u.s.? >> it is a problem, jim, because complaint against him alleging intelligence on to itself they believe he could have doesn't make policy. violated the hatch act. intelligence is geared toward it prohibits federal employees its number one customer. from accepting political that is typically the president contributions. of the united states. they say they believe matt if the president chooses not to whitaker may have done that integrate it into a policy because of some donations made process, the buck really stops to a committee when he ran for with him. and the issue, jim, is we might senate in 2014. he lost. did not win that. see a very public divide over