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My partner asked me to represent them to the best of my knowledge because i established an expertise in conducting and turning over, seeing internal investigations on behalf of corporate clients. >> brian benchkowski was confirmed narrowly by the senate. he does now run the criminal division at the justice department. but now today, fascinating new revelation about him. at his confirmation hearings, he got asked about this stuff a lot. he committed that he would recuse himself on anything related to alfa bank specifically, since they had been his client. but even though he was asked repeatedly...

they specifically hired the guy who had led the trump transition team at the justice department. they hired him to oversee a new internal report that cleared them of any wrongdoing when it came to those mysterious contacts between their bank and the trump organization during the campaign. when that lawyer, brian benchkowski was finished overseeing that internal report for alfa bank, president trump then nominated him to be head t head of the criminal division at the justice department. oh. at his confirmation hearing, amy klobuchar asked him about that work for alfa bank. >> do you think th...

Justice department is willing to spell out what's going on with the head of the criminal division in his recusal on this matter, brian benchkowski. so why are they not spelling it out with regard to matt whitaker? it also comes as the white house had to has floated william barr as a new potential appointee to be attorney general. william barr served as ag under george h.w. bush for just over a year in the early '90s. so you can sort of look at him that way, look at it as sort of an establishment republican pick. another way to look at william barr is that he was the guy in the iran/contra cons...

Benchkowski, head of the criminal division at the justice department, he has recused himself from the whole russia investigation, from everything related to robert mueller. he would not tell senators that that's what he was going to do, but now that he is in there, he has recused everything related to mueller. now is that because the mueller investigation turns out to have a lot of alfa bank in it and he can't be anywhere near anything with alfa bank? or maybe it's just because brian benchkowski had a change of heart and decided even though he wouldn't do it in this kind of recusal at his conf...

His assertion he didn't have any involvement in terrorism policies. even those documents they have reviewed on the committee, those are being withheld from public view by the committee chairman, chuck grassley. democrats want them released so the public can see it themselves. that's one thing to keep an eye on, to what extent brett kavanaugh's 2006 confirmation hearing comes back to haunt him. and just one last point i will make on this. that letter written in 2007 asking the attorney general to open an investigation into whether brett kavanaugh lied during his confirmation hearing, that lette...