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Both sides of this street in a very disingenuous way. >> so even if the president did call whitaker and talked about the cohen case, if no action was actually taken by whitaker, is there any issue in terms of legality of it. >> there is very definitely an issue. if the president called the acting attorney general of the united states about an ongoing investigation of him in the southern district of new york, where he was named as a an unindicted co-conspirator, any conversation would be wildly improper. and evidence of potential obstruction of justice. even if nothing came of it in terms of wh...

Where he was named as in effect an unindicted co-conspirator, any conversation would be wildly improper. and evidence of potential obstruction of justice. even if nothing came of it in terms of whitaker acting. clearly the president's intent in calling whitaker was to influence the outcome. clearly that kind of attempt, whether it produced action on whitaker's part, was improper, verging on outright obstruction of justice. so this report is potentially explosive. whitaker has denied very specifically in his opening statement in public that kind of conversation. but even some backtracking indic...

Michael cohen case and personnel decisions in the southern district. >> laura, explain the significance. >> okay. so, as you said, alisyn, this is really the tale two of whitakers. on the one hand you have chairman nadler saying he didn't deny it? and why does this matter in the first place? whitaker is gone. it matters because our reporting and the follow-up story in the "new york times" about the president calling whitaker trying to make sure his guy, the u.s. attorney there in the southern district of new york, jeffrey berman was put back on the case and unrecused from it. it all goes to th...

As he say, according to the times, he viewed his job effectively to jump on the grenade for the president at times, to do his bidding. ken, i want to begin with you. walk us through in this new reporting what specifically we are learning new and why this is part of sort of a broader mosaic about the way the president does his business. >> this is a really ambitious story by the times. it tries to explain to the public the larger mosaic of what looks like a campaign to discredit a number of informations by donald trump. in the course of doing that, they cite three new episode. the first is the ...

Appointment, calling whitaker, quote, unqualified and unconfirmed partisan." he's urging a federal judge to declare rod rosenstein as a temporary replacement instead. that would be a blow to president trump who forced sessions out last week in favor of someone critical of the mueller investigation. i'm joined now by nbc news justice correspondent pete williams and our panel is back. pete, i, of course, want to start with you. how real is this lawsuit in maryland? how likely is it that it will actually result in the change to the leadership at the o.j.? and what more do we know about the questi...