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Ridiculous, i think it smells a little fishy. >> well, there have been calls for whitaker to recuse himself from the investigation. he's not going to do that yet. nancy pelosi had this to say today. >> president trump installed matthew whitaker as acting a.g. for one purpose, to end the investigation. >> and there has been real, real concern all along that president trump will fire robert mueller, or try some other way to end the russia investigation. but the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell refusing to allow a vote on a bipartisan bill, he is doing that and he doesn't want that bill to ...

That's what would worry the president. i don't want to go too far speculating here. but what else are you looking at if you're looking at during the campaign except were you cooperating with russia, was somebody in your circle, camp, associates, whatever? >> the thing is the one thing that the president specifically tweeted about here, he said that the inner workings of the mueller investigation was a mess. all these things about oh, they're a mess. he's looking for answers that he wants specifically. they're ruining people's lives. on and on and on. didn't he just appoint a new acting a.g. to...

Press conference. cnn sued to get the pass back. fox news filed legal briefs in support of cnn. the federal judge declined to rule on the first amendment basis. he said that cnn will ultimate prevail. >> shepard: rule on due process and more to come. thanks, rich. fox news confirms some senate republicans are pressing president trump to replace his asking attorney general, matt whitaker as soon as possible. politco said it would help clear up concerns about interference in the mueller investigation hand calm the controversy that developed when the president got rid of his former a.g. jeff sess...

Acting a.g. could be eliminated if we had a nominee and my understanding is the white house is starting to look into that. but i don't have any -- as i told you this morning, i don't have any indication of time line or who the candidates are. >> cornyn is not alone. james langford told politco that "it would be helpful to get moving so we can have that person in place as soon as possible. whoever will be there will have to make clear statements about what they intend to do on the special counsel. the sooner the better, let's get it resolved." a senate gop spokesman said much of the conference ...

Cases filed under seal in the district court. so i think it's likely that there are some things sitting on the back burner. and then the bigger question, the big structural question has to do with whether mr. whitaker is going to interfere with this. >> i want to get to you on that. there is, and many i colleagues on the hill and i have been working working on this look this back and forth. whitaker, some folks on the hill want the president to name a new attorney general sooner rather than later. >> when you have the attorney general fired and the oversight for the investigation moved to some...