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At least he let those watching the investigation have some peace of mind it was conducted by officials without any personal stake. >> so what do you make of the fact that whitaker ignored the advice of a doj ethics official to recuse himself from the mueller investigation? he says that there wasn't an absolutely must. there was no conflict of interest that was identified. it was the appearance, perhaps, of impartiality. he didn't want to be the person who then set that line for future people who are in his position. what do you make of his stance? >> anna, a lot of people are surprised that th...

Nature of the communications between the white house and the d.o.j., so as not to create an appearance of partisanship in the administration of justice. this seems to violate that, the spirit of those regulations. >> and so on top of all of this now, we also learned that whitaker disregarded advice from a d.o.j. ethics official to recuse himself from the russia probe. can he be made to recuse himself? or when a recommendation comes in, from someone on ethics, should he be honoring it? >> yes, he should be honoring it. no, he can't be required to recuse himself, because i believe in this case, ...

Month. so this is something they want to get to the bottom of to figure out why exactly it was that donald trump, whether he asked michael flynn to lie and was that the case. was there a quid pro quo during the campaign that michael flynn them operationalized with the russian ambassador to hide their misdeeds and get on a better foot with russia. >> i want to go to matt whitaker, going to our latest headline, i've been suggested by the ethics committee of the d.o.j. that i should maybe recuse myself but i'm not going to. katie, is that okay? >> it's basic ethical considerations when you're an ...

We learned whittaker is rejecting advice from doj ethics officials to recuse himself. he sought out this informal advice. ethics said it was a close call but they would recuse. should whittaker have taken that advice? >> i think it should have. it's quite interesting it wasn't in writing. he wasn't on the campaign like jeff sessions. he doesn't have any people in the white house or appearance of conflict of interest. i think it's clear given the president stepped over rod rosenstein to put him here, the reason he's in this position is because he doesn't support the mueller probe. i think there...

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...