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>> do you believe whittaker passing public comments, skepticism on the mueller base meet qualifications for recusal? >> there is a catch-all in the regulations that says even on appearance of a bias is a basis under the existing regulations to recuse. and if he was to honor those he indeed given his prior statements, he would do so. anderson, i don't think he's going to do so. >> john, how likely do you think it is the president got some sort of promise from whittaker he wouldn't recuse himself in? if he recused himself, that's what the president freaked out about jeff sessions. >> there was d...

Here we are a month later and we are talking sanctions here. the president has a tactic he used in order to sit down and speak with vladimir putin but with no uncertain terms laid down the law. >> julie: he is getting a lot of pressure from congress to do that. several bills are moving through the senate, the deter act, lindsey graham and bob menendez have a catch-all bill here. the congress is concerned and they are forcing the trump administration, i think, to take harder measures. they are talking about mandatory sanctions on energy, on finance, on banking, on sovereign debt in russia. i th...

Indictment engaging 12 people but none of it has to do with collusion or obstruction of justice from the trump team as rosenstein made very clear and as he did the last time they came out and named russian nationals they had charged with hacking and being engaged in our election. i think this is the one disingenuous aspect of the mueller probe which frustrates americans which he spends time uncovering russian plots it would be nice to make it clear because the press doesn't want to go there. the democrats are still obsession it every day making it sound like there's an imminent arrest of a tru...

And one of the things they are looking at is was michael cohen essentially facilitating payments to buy their silence? and if so, was that a campaign contribution? did that violate any banking laws? and then look, the access hollywood tape came out at crucial time. i think what the justice department is looking sat did michael cohen play any role in trying to tamp down the release of that video? did he have any role in sort of reacting to that video? and they had -- there was a catch-all after that that said we also want to know what else, you know, what other negative stories or negative issu...

Participating in a matter like this can create an appearance that you have lost your impartiality. and people can quible over the technical reading of covered relationship and whether it apply, but there is a catch-all that certainly did apply here and in any other white house, they would certainly have had him recuse. it is rule that is easy to enforce. a person can always say i was unaware, i didn't know. but come on here, this is as common sense ethics as it gets. you don't do this. >> also there are so many facetses to this, one being that there was potentially a job on the table. if there...