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Senate confirmed. again, putting aside the question as to whether or not legally mr. whitaker can occupy the position, i think the optics are not very good for a department from which my perspective has been under siege for almost two years with all the constant criticism of jeff sessions, with the constant criticism and questioning of the mueller investigation. to me, you know, i think the last thing the department needs is more controversy about things that are happening within the department and controversy over the leadership of the department. >> so there are issues with the oversight now...

Our reporting is that whitaker doesn't seem like he's about to recuse himself. do you feel if it's recommended by the career ethics lawyers to recuse that he should? >> absolutely. that's a role of the career ethics lawyers, they have the experience. you obtain credibility, and i think mr. whitaker comes into the position with limited credibility and to ignore the advise of the career lawyers, and that diminishes his ability to lead the department as long as the president wants him in that position. i think he needs to listen to the ethics individuals, and from my perspective, again, i think t...

Other reason hewould have been chosen? >> absolutely not. that is the only reason why he would be chosen for this job, because he's a critic of the mueller office. >> you are the white house reporter. is the thinking that the president was waiting until the moment that he knew republicans had secured the senate in order to do this? >> i think that's part of it. i think the president also wanted to wait until after the midterms because he was hearing from a number of different republican leaders, don't do this before the midterms, you are going to cause us political damage and we will lose the...

This morning the fate of robert mueller's russia investigation hangs in the balance after president trump fired the attorney general, jeff sessions, and replaced him at least for the time being with the chief of staff at the justice department, matthew whitaker. he takes over as acting attorney general. this means he is overseeing the special counsel's russia probe, and whitaker is on record opposi opposing mueller. whitaker not only opposed the investigation, but he's basically provided a road map by which the person overseeing robert mueller can make it more or less go away. i want to play y...

Subpoena documents that he might otherwise try to quash related to the mueller investigation. >> the president explained what he thinks he can do in terms of mueller and firing him. so listen to this. >> i could fire everybody right now, but i don't want to stop it because politically i don't like stopping it. it's a disgrace. it should have never been started because there was no crime. it is -- everybody has conflicts, they all have conflicts over there that are beyond anything anybody has ever seen in terms of conflicts. >> jeffrey, is that true, he could fire everybody right now? >> he cou...