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You've learned in your capacity as acting attorney general related to the mueller investigation or any other criminal investigation involving the president? >> congressman, while i have specifically been saying that i'm not going to comment about my conversations with the president or his senior staff, i have been also been very clear that the president has not instructed me to do anything -- >> so that wasn't my question. my question was, have you had conversations about what you learned? that's a yes or a no. >> all of that -- by the way, all of this stems from cnn -- this explosive reportin...

Their actions. you can say why else would they have done these things but for a corrupt purpose? why would you keep working the internal doj power. and you say why else would someone take these actions if they weren't trying to do something that was corrupt? >> let me bring the congressman in from rhode island. we played that exchange when he was the acting attorney general a couple weeks ago. how do you look at that response you got right now? >> well, i think it's pretty clear that matthew whitaker's testimony and the reporting that explosive reporting cannot both be true. mr. whitaker, he c...

And then, again, this is all the same week. this is how we are leading up to the two-year anniversary of trump being sworn in all this same week. now "buzzfeed" news has been the source of an all-day furor today with their just volcanically explosive reporting that president trump personally instructed michael cohen to lie to congress about the trump tower moscow project and how how long negotiations went on and how involved trump and his family were. remember, michael cohen has pled guilty lying to congress about that. the "buzzfeed" reporting is that trump directed cohen to make those false ...

Operation. he then turned around and paid his contractor who was working on that operation $12,000 in cash in a walmart bag which also included a used boxing glove. okay. "vanity fair" reported here on our air last night, reporter emily jane fox reported here last night that michael cohen has documentation that trump directed that operation, that campaign expenditure. just like he did the other campaign finance shenanigans that have now been charged by the southern district of new york as felonies. and then, again, this is all the same week. this is how we are leading up to the two-year annive...

News report and go in that direction, do you think that will affect the special counsel's office at all in terms of it's public-facing activities? will we hear more in general from mueller given that the democrats are now in position to react and respond from an impeachment standpoint to any explosive reporting that's out there? >> you know, i think the explosive reporting, which got people talking about impeachment in this case did affect the desire by mueller to shoot this down, but i wouldn't predict you're going to see more of that. i really don't. but there's some big issues that are stil...