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Has been overseeing the mueller investigation. if you are talking. naught whitaker's statements 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 al...

Resist, the politics of delay. suing the national archives could go on forever or be dropped at a moment's notice so it wouldn't happen at any time soon. and that is where chuck schumer is. it's not really a vetting of the candidate who, by the way has 300 decisions roughly. public records, they've been at the bush library where they can read a lot of this. if they get things that are classified, what are they actually going to do with them? >> it is attached to the vetting of the candidate but even if they found something that was distasteful, it was in the judge's role when he was not a judg...

Idea to sue for these documents? >> and, i think what they are raising the specter of, and i don't have any insight on this, but it's my guess, my educated guess, as staff secretary in the white house, was he attached to hot button issues of the day? torture, reproductive and women health rights, overseas activities, what was he involved in? my concern there is, that's an executive function and he was doing his job there, it's not a judicial function and that's what he should be evaluated on. so it feels a bit of an overreach approaching them in terms but -- >> harris: overreach in terms of gr...

What do you make of that play? >> a very smart tactical play by a very smart democratic leader. i don't say that because i used to work for him. it's smart politics and smart poll civil i'm sure they'll get a lot of angry calls and tweets about this. while public disclosure especially for something as important as the supreme court confirmation process is important, and vital for the public policy and public conversation, i think the nominee's role in the white house as a staff secretary controlling and managing and overseeing the flow of paper into the oval office is an executive function and...

>> bret: getting the interpreter to come to capitol hill and it doesn't seem like that is going anywhere. >> it would be really inappropriate to interrogate the interpreter. it's an executive function, it's an executive branch privilege thing. it's a bad idea. at the same time, the fact that -- people forget donald trump, before they walked it back, donald trump in the helsinki press conference touted this idea of this reciprocal deal with the russians where they get to interview browder and mcfaul as a really intriguing offer. that did not inspire confidence that that conversation went as swi...