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Attorney ag, assistant attorney general, the attorney general in charge of the office of legal counsel, assistant ag for national security, assistant ag in charge of the criminal division, and on and on. none of them, none of them are the chief of staff to the attorney general. i think what we're trying to figure out is, why is it exactly that the president chose to go beyond the statute and choose you. and i hope over the balance of this hearing, that will become clear. i yield back, mr. chairman. >> thank you, congressman. i believe the president chose me to be the acting attorney general fo...

Derail his nomination? thanks for coming on. does he get through? >> he does and he should. the president set a high bar and it is going to be barr who is the attorney general. under president george hw bush he was confirmed as assistant ag and deputy ag and by unanimous voice vote which is unheard of for this type of decision he was confirmed. he is the perfect person, he serves and gets out, sees service as an opportunity, not a career and is a successful attorney, not a hyper-partisan. he is right for the job. jillian: has the way this has played out surprise you? >> know. this is politics ...

A kind of mole. bring mueller in. ask him what's going on thp and then let president trump in on the direction of the investigation. >> there's really two vieds of th -- sides of this. there is what is happening on whitaker and will democrats and republicans go through a process that answers this question, is it constitutional or unethical. the flip side is this save the mueller movement that is potentially legislation that is somewhat bipartisan. when you look at whitacre, what do you think is going to happen next? >> it's unclear to me. i think that, one, we need to stop having expectations ...

Low-level aid. conclusions drawn here are based on whether you are a republican or a democrat. >> harris: is our most things i have figured out these days. let's bring in stephen hayes, editor in chief for the weekly standard and a fox news contributor. moments ago i spoke with the assistant ag under george w. bush and he said it is time now for robert mueller to put up or shut up. >> i think this is another step in a long investigation. we will see what robert mueller has learned from michael flynn in exchange for this guilty plea today or might learn in the future although i suspect he has l...

It, somebody better get that message to donald trump. the person who is undercutting that strategy is donald trump himself. >> amy, do you agree with that, that the president is his worst enemy? he's constantly saying things whether in interviews or tweets that come back to haunt him. he said in the interview with lester holt he fired jim comey because of the russian investigation. >> no, he did not. he said he fired him -- he was going to fire him for sometime, then thought to himself, you know, this russia investigation is really stupid. then you had the memo come out from the assistant ag a...