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Alright who wants to go again? i do! i do! i have a really good feeling about this. we have breaking news. moments ago the state department released nearly 100 pages of records in response to american oversight's lawsuit seeking a range of documents related to the trump administration's dealings with ukraine. you might have heard rachel talking about this on her show. those documents have just been released, and joining us now by phone is austin evers, the executive director of watchdog group american oversight. thank you for joining me. i'm just looking at your press release about these doc...

It's not the mueller team. i just want to make sure we're very clear about that. the agency looking at whether whitaker may have violated rules on federal employees by accepting political contributions to his own senatorial campaign while he was serving in the justice department. so he's serving in the justice department and accepting money, political contributions. laura jarrett is outfront. >> acting attorney general matt whitaker facing new questions tonight about a mysterious trail of campaign contributions as cnn has now learned that an independent federal agency looking into whether he m...

Mysterious trail of campaign contributions as cnn has now learned that an independent federal agency is looking into whether he may have violated federal law by accepting campaign money while working at the justice department. at the crux of the issue, $8,800 in donations made to his failed 2014 bid for a u.s. senate seat in iowa. especially since the donations were only made earlier this year, just months after he became chief of staff to then attorney general jeff sessions. that's a problem, says austin evers, head of american oversight, a government watchdog group that filed an administrati...

"lock her up" chant, but why she should be any different, why we should not lock her up, ivanka trump. >> i want you both to stay with me. i'm going to bring in austin evers. director of the watchdog group american oversight. he filed this freedom of information act request that got some of the e-mails and texts out that regarded ivanka and political appointees. what did you think you've achieved thus far with this? how did you think to look for it? we spoke briefly by phone when the news broke last night. >> sure. we started this investigation early last year just because we wanted to test wh...

>> look at what she's done with e-mails. >> did you ever see a mess like this? >> what are the chances we're going to hear that kind of rhetoric today? >> i would say not particularly high. just putting on my prognosticator hat. one thing about this story that is interesting is that it shows the extent to which progress of and liberal outside groups are catching up with the conservative movement, when it comes to broadband a this morning in the side of administrations. unending headaches, austin evers just on screen talking about this, was one of the lawyers at the state department that had to...