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>> you're clearly not going to answer the question so i'll move on. you know professor john barrett, correct? anyway, this is a law school professor who tweeted that you told him in june of 2017 that you were flying out from iowa to new york city to be on cnn regularly because you were hoping to be noticed as a trump defendant and to get a trump judicial appointment back in iowa. you then went on to discuss the mueller appointment as ridiculous and a little fishy, that demanding the trump finances would be going too far, there that was no collusion in the trump campaign, and finally that a rep...

>> are you able to say it or do you not believe it? >> i have answered your question as to what i believe about the special counsel. i stand by my prior statement -- >> can you say it to the president, though? >> congressman, i am not here to be a puppet to repeat terms and words that you say that i should say. >> can you say that to the president? >> regular order. >> mr. chair, he hasn't answer that had question. >> i'm sorry. >> he has not said -- >> the time of the gentleman has expired. >> i don't have anything further to add. i think i've answered the congressman question. >> that's a qu...

This committee in 2017, correct? november. >> i was. in fact, i sat right behind him. >> that's where i'm going. do you remember had he asking him a question about diversity in leadership at doj and the fact they had no african-americans in leadership at the doj? do you have any african-americans in leadership at the department of justice? >> if the senate confirms my friend don washington to be head of the u.s. martial which i believe is pending on the senate floor currently, then the answer would be yes. as we sit here today, i do not believe. what do you consider to be the leadership of the...

The mueller investigation, a pretty remarkable charge from a sitting member of congress, a democrat who contends that the acting attorney general is misleading congress. of course, it's a crime that he's talking under oath, talking to congress, but that's just what he expects. the question is what will happen from here on out. we expect more questions about this, we expect more questions about michael cohen, the investigation of the southern district of new york, the fact the president was implicated in two crimes. any conversation between the president and bhwhitaker, we're probably not going...

Talk to the president about the mueller investigation. >> have you ever spoken to the president or parts of his legal team about information that you've learned in your capacity as acting attorney general related to the mueller investigation or any other criminal investigation involving the president? >> congressman, while i have specifically been saying that i'm not going to comment about my conversations with the president or his senior staff, i have also been very clear that the president has not instructed me to do anything -- >> that wasn't my question. my question was have you had conver...