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>> i don't. for reasons we have talked about. i don't think personnel decisions, including the firing of the fbi director can constitute obstruction of justice. >> do you know why you do it? >> i don't think you can separate that out from the fact that that's the president's prerogative any more than what "the new york times" reports today that the president was trying to install a perceived loyalist on top of the southern district of new york investigation. that's an executive function. just because maggie haberman and other people in the article. >> three others. >> just because other people...

Dealing with national security. although i've never heard of a president doing what donald trump did. i also worked in national security issues in the clinton white house. i have never heard of a president doing what donald trump did, but we have to recognize conversations between a president and foreign leader go to the very heart of our national security, our foreign policy enterprise. yes, it's terribly concerning if the president was doing something untoward in those conversations but we have to be very careful about setting a precedent where the congress has the ability to subpoena what w...

Has been overseeing the mueller investigation. if you are talking. naught whitaker's stants as a private citizen a year and a half ago i don't think that disqualifies somebody from being the chief law enforcement officer at the department of justice which is an executive function. chris: whitaker has had a lot to say about mueller. here he is about a possible way to shut down the special counsel. >> i can see a scenario where jeff sessions is replaced with a recess appointment and that attorney general doesn't fire bob mueller, but he reduces the budget so low the investigation grind to almost...

Private citizen a year and a half ago when the mueller investigation started what he said on cable tv i don't think that disqualifies somebody from being the chief law enforcement officer at the department of justice, an executive function. >> some house republicans maintained that rod rosenstein who whitaker replaced to oversee the russian probe didn't recuse himself. he signed -- surveillance warrants are under investigation by the inspector general. rosenstein is also a possible witness in the obstruction case over the president's firing of f.b.i. director james comey as well as allegations...

From being the chief law enforcement officer which is an executive function. >> with that i'd like to welcome in my panel for this hour. intelligence and national security reporter kendall and white house burro chief and analyst phillip rucker and washington burro chief and msnbc contributor kimberly atkins and editor of the resurgent, eric ericsson. i want to start with who is matt whitaker and how strange and outside the norm it is to have somebody not confirmed by the senate do this job. >> it's unconstitutional. that may be the subject. matthew whitaker is a politician, a former college fo...