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That is something that whether mueller decides or not, it is certainly something that congress is going to look at, and it looks like congress is going to wait until mueller reports to decide whether they're going to go down that path, which could lead to impeachment. >> we should point out, the president was asked about this today. denied ever having asked whitaker that. you stand by the reporting. >> yes, certainly. >> as far as matthew whitaker is concerned, he clearly didn't deliver on the president's desire for the u.s. attorney of the southern district of new york to unrecuse himself fro...

Investigation, which of course, ensnared cohen and which has brought trump's actions regarding hush money payments into direct focus. the question of how to interpret it is one that a lot of lawyers are going to have some disagreement of opinion. the standard of obstruction is that when it involves the president, it's about someone has to have corrupt intent. they have to intend to shut down an investigation for corrupt or criminal reasons. that is something that whether mueller decides or not, it is certainly something that congress is going to look at, and it looks like congress is going to ...

Minute order. and this, of course, follows the genius move by roger stone yesterday to -- when he decided to post a photo of the judge who was hearing his case on his instagram account. the photo included a close-up picture of the judge with little crosshairs next to the judge as if she was being targeted by someone looking through a rifle scope. after initially posting that yesterday, stone took down that image and replaced it with the exact same image but cropped a little differently so the crosshairs aren't there. he did still, though, leave up the same written caption for the photo targeti...

Should be more loyal to him than following the facts in the rule of law. >> so just get the sequence of events straight, the cohen case is going on o, the president goes to his acting attorney general whitaker and he says he make as request to put in a new prosecutor to put berman and trump's ally in charge of the prosecution of cohen. what is the response that whiches back to trump and what's the exchange there? >> well, berman -- nothing changed. nothing came of it. this is a theme that happens a lot of times with trump and obstruction. where he tries to do something. he tries to get comey t...

President's request because he was recused. according to the report, he soured on mr. whitaker and complained about his inability to pull levers that could make the president's many legal problems go away. and the president is contesting that story, flatly denying that he ever asked his acting attorney general to change his prosecutor in the cohen case. >> change the leadership to your former investigation -- >> no, not at all. that's more fake news. there's a lot of fake news out there. no, i didn't. >> however, trump's reported outreej to whitaker may contradict the sworn testimony last mont...