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President as the acting attorney general. this is according to sources speaking to my colleague kaitlan collins, anderson, who say they are sort of caught offguard by some of the coverage and the fact that he had made these comments publicly on cnn, as weapon as op-eds, where he called the mueller probe ridiculous, suggested that mueller was overstepping his bounds. some officials are saying they didn't seven kn-- even know tha he had made those comments. which is ironic, because it was those kinds of comments where whitaker was saying that he was critical of the mueller probe that caught the ...

Think technically, you're right. i think the question that i would ask my republican colleagues would be to stick to their word, and i've been with a lot of them over the last year, i raised this issue as a constitution allred line a year ago about mueller. they've all, on private and publicly reassured me that they think mueller will be able to finish his job, and my hope would be that those members would stick to what they've said in the past and say that they would not vote for any attorney general nominee of this president that wouldn't allow mueller to finish his investigation. and my hop...

House can simply say, you know, this is a fake attorney general. this is not someone we will fund the jules tis department with at its head. so, they'll cut its funding, they may stop its funding, they may say, we'll only fund mueller and not fund anything else until you get a real attorney general. that's a second thing. and then the third thing, absolutely, i expect lawsuit after lawsuit. because every single day, i served in the justice department, there are thousands of cases across the country in which the attorney general is the principle litigant. yesterday i argued a case in philadelph...

Stream, that he or she would have no problem being approved. >> as long as republicans in the senate are supportive of whoever the president picks, that pick would pass, no? >> well, again, that goes -- i think technically, you're right. the question that i would ask my republican colleagues would be to stick to their word, and i've been with a lot of them over the last year. i raised this issue as a constitutional red line a year ago about mueller. they've all, on private and publicly reassured me that they think mueller will be able to finish his job, and my hope would be that those members ...

Attorney general. cnn's senior white house correspondent pamela brown joins us now. so what surprised the white house about the reaction to whitaker? >> reporter: it's the negative reaction to matt whitaker being appointed acting attorney general. this is according to my sources who say they're sort of caught off guard by some of the coverage and the fact that he had made these comments publicly on cnn, as well as op-eds where he called the mueller probe ridiculous, and suggested it could be a fishing expedition, suggested that mueller was overstepping his bounds. some officials are saying tha...