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Renewed government shut down. if he gets congressional proposal without money for the wall, he won't even read it. declare a national emergency and face legal challenges? the president says he's not worried about that. on the russia investigation, the president says he will leave that to the justice department to decide whether to release the special counsel robert mueller's final report. in an interview with the daily caller, the president insisted that he has the right to get involved and shut down mueller's investigation of his campaign's contacts with the russians, but that he's chosen to ...

We have no expectations that's happening. >> also the southern district investigations. so it's more than just mueller. so that's one thing. remember, you're putting up there a nominee who about william barr who is famous for his really ridiculous constitutional views which are the president controls the prosecution power entirely. even is barr's promise worth even the paper it's printed on, because if trump orders him to say shut down mueller, shut down southern district of new york, barr has said in his own writings, hey, the attorney general has to follow the president. >> you know, maya, i...

Because he's not considered seriously by the legislative attorney community, et cetera, et cetera, has made statements already and the reason we think he has been chosen as acting director is because he has written that he does not believe that a sitting president can be indicted. bar is in the same kind of space on all of this. these are people that we think could come in and fire mueller. this is what the president would like to happen. the closer we get to the president and his criminal activity, the more the president will try to shut down mueller. mueller, i hope, will be coming in very s...

Whitaker impact the investigation here? >> well, whitaker has the authority to ask mueller to provide an explanation and justification for investigative steps he takes. and then, in certain circumstances, if he thinks that mueller is straying too far afield, going outside the bounds of justice department guidelines, he could overrule mueller. so you could imagine if whitaker really had in his mind that he wanted to impede mueller, he could start asking him to justify everything he does. because prosecutors exercise judgment and discretion, and they often make a whole bunch of investigative ste...

Install this loyalist, who is an opponent of the mueller investigation, can we see -- are we allowed to tell whether and when and how this is a live, active white house effort right this second to shut down mueller's investigation? now, i said those were questions we need answers to. i think we can get answers to all of those questions tonight, and we're going to try to over the course of this hour. i said there was one thing i think you should know that i'm going to tell you about this tonight, and one thing i want to tell you, is that there are groups across the country who have been prepari...