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Asked him to stop the investigation of mike flynn and continues to go on today. whether or not what jim and he had all the power in the kops constituti -- constitution to tell him to stop. >> his tv commentary would give the impression whitaker could not be an impartial overseeing of the investigation. whitaker is not expected to be briefed on the mueller investigation and remember, he's the acting attorney general, president trump is nominated william barr to that post. barr's opinion is now a little clearer, thanks to the release of an unsolis cy liicise memo. department attorney general rod...

Investigation, and whitaker is rejecting advice of justice department ethics officials that rerecucused himself. a source tells cnn whitaker never sought a formal recommendation which is all the more unusual since back in, and at the department of justice and senior ethics officials on the oversight responsibilities. but ethics comments made on tv about the mueller investigation. comments he made on this show back in june of 2017. >> i think what's happening is we're conflicting sort of the lawyers and the prosecutors and the fbi and what they do with politics, and that gets really dangerous s...

Two major developments this morning regarding the russia investigation. acting attorney general matt whitaker has been told he does not need to recuse himself from the probe. a source tells cnn whitaker consulted with doj ethics officials. they advised him he does not need to step away from the investigation despite the fact whitaker argued in a cnn op-ed last year that the probe was going too far. meanwhile, bill barr, the man the president has picked to be his permanent attorney general, is facing backlash over his own comments, things he wrote criticizing the investigation as asinine. laura...