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Anything. i do believe our strength is in the public involvement. >> it was no surprise the president of the united states would try to distract from the big win for your party in the house. when that came in the form of a big move of firing jeff sessions and putting in as acting a.g. mr. whitaker do you see this as a move not just to distract from politics, but to interfere with the mueller probe? >> i think the latter is the primary purpose, to interview with mueller. the timing of the mueller investigation -- the timing of it is to distract from the big defeat that the president suffered in...

>> we have bipartisan support for the dreamers. we have bipartisan support for comprehension immigration reform, for the equality act and discrimination against the lgbtq community. they won't bring up the bill. we will now that we have the majority. >> you think you can get it past the senate? and the new configuration. >> president lincoln said public sentiment is everything. with it you can do almost anything. without it practically nothing. i do believe our strength is in the public involvement. >> it was no surprise the president of the united states would try to distract from the big win...

Officials weren't aware he had made these comments critical of the probe and they were taken aback when there was so much scrutiny on matt whitaker's past comments and they're worried about what his future is going to be going forward. now, brooke, that last statement from the president was key. he said he did not discuss the russia probe with matt whitaker before he tapped him to become the acting attorney general. that's something critics say they do not believe from the president, democratic critics mostly. but that's something that's going to come under intense scrutiny, whether or not the...

Opinion you don't have to recuse yourself because you have opinions on something. it's because you would have an involvement in the matter. that's why sessions recused himself. mr. whitaker having opinions is not -- >> he should subject himself to the same scrutiny as attorney general sessions did. the justice department can tell him and they know more about what i can say. >> big victory for the democrats. >> yeah. >> the house, arguably big victory for the president in the senate. everywhere he went in that senate he wound up having some type of success. do you believe there was validation a...

You'll see people in the streets because of this firing. should the president go to rosenstein or mueller or something like that, it would be even worse. this is a very important moment. i hope the president is not frivolous about it. this person should not be there because of the statements he's made already. because it's constitutional -- on weak ground in another reason. there are qualified people he could name. there are plenty of people who could be confirmed. >> constitutional issue is one thing. in terms of him having an opinion you don't have to recuse yourself because you have opinion...