house. sometimes it's tried to be blocked by white house lawyers. but this is something that the president has undertaken with the help of his top aides. >> now, just recently, we saw matt whitaker up in the hot seat on capitol hill. if memory serves, he was asked more or less, you know, did the president ever pressure you, right? with regard to the mueller investigation, the fdny investigation. and his response, mark woods know, so that doesn't jive with what you are hearing. correct? >> reporter: right. and first he was kind of loathed to get into any discussions he had with the president. but then was fairly firm in saying that he had not been pressured by the president on any of these various investigations and after our story published, we released a statement from the justice department saying as much. we might then question the wording of the statement. the question is, what is one