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>> according to "the washington post," in the three years after you arrived in washington, whitaker received more than $1.2 million as the leader of a charity that reported having no other employees. >> you have challenged my character -- >> no. no. i'm asking you a question. i control this time, mr. whitaker. if you want to ask the chairman for time of your own, you can do it. this is my time. mr. whitaker, you don't run this committee. you don't run the congress of the united states, and you don't run the judiciary committee. >> gentlemen -- >> you know, that is a tactic. people don't want t...

People don't want to answer the question, they feign outrage. it's happened a lot over the years on this network and people i've interviewed. did today show why many have said the acting a.g. is not qualified for the job? there's a lot we don't know about him now. >> well he's superbly qualified for the job is the job is essentially to be a flunky for the president of the united states and to do whatever the president wants him to do. what i was asking him about actually was a really shocking and stunning reversal in office of legal counsel opinion, which has stood since 2011, which has said t...

Staff to then a.g. jeff sessions. later taking on the job of acting a.g. when sessions was fired by the president. speaking to an audience of one just like he did today on capitol hill. this is whitaker trying to act cute when chairman jerry nadler wanted to know if he'd been asked to approve any of mueller's actions. here it is. >> now, in your capacity as acting attorney general, have you ever been asked to approve any request or action to be taken by the special counsel? >> mr. chairman, i see that your five minutes is up, and so -- >> that went over like a lead balloon. and chairman nadler...

But a little later the acting a.g. was back to the same old bobbing and weaving, refusing to answer questions about his conversations with the president about cohen. >> mr. lieu asked you if you ever communicated with president trump about investigations in the southern district of new york. instead of answering, you referred him back to your statement, referred him back to what was written for you. but all you said is that you didn't make any -- your statement, that you didn't make any promises or commitments to president trump. i want to know whether you talked to president trump at all abou...

Montana senator jon tester. that's at 2 and 7 ian here on the fox news channel, or you can check your local listings for times on your local fox station. >> the longstanding constitutionally-based department of justice policy holds that a sitting president cannot be indicted. is that -- and that's based on the last review under the clinton administration. is that still in effect, or has it changed? >> that is still the policy of the department of justice. eric: that's acting attorney general matthew whitaker addressing lawmakers. he was speaking to the house judiciary committee yesterday and w...