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Concerning mueller's probe, how he got the job and cnn's reporting about how the president unloaded on whitaker in terms of how the southern district of new york has been going after the president's former lawyer, michael cohen. they wanted to question him given whitaker's performance just last week when he unexpectedly blurted out some news about how the special counsel's probe is winding down. take a listen to how that went down. >> i have been fully briefed on the investigation. i look forward to director mueller delivering the final report. the investigation is, i think, close to being com...

Couple different levels the first of which being we know whitaker is on record critical of the mueller investigation. beyond that, there is this long held norm, the wall between the white house and the justice department when it comes to criminal investigations. it appears as though trump didn't learn the lesson, we know reporting from the former fbi director james comey how he, the president, allegedly asked him to make the flynn matter go away, for example. it was reported to the "new york times" the president was talking to his own lawyer using the justice department to go after comey and c...

Since whitaker was appointed, we have, in fact, seen no new indictments from mueller and his team. now, if you're worried about the importance and the integrity of the mueller investigation, if you're worried about the possibility that it might be shut down behind the scenes, given the importance of what that investigation is into, it's a little unsettling to recognize that if matt whitaker is throttling the mueller investigation within the justice department, if he's blocking new indictments, say, we wouldn't necessarily have any way to know that. i mean, if mueller's team goes to the grand j...

The story on the house, of course, democrats have a net gain of 39 seats in the house. here's the outstanding one. the 21st district of california. this is the central valley part of the state. t.j. cox, the democrat, remember, california, every night you get a batch of new votes. last night, he took the lead over david valadao, republican incumbent, by 436 votes. we are -- we don't know exactly how many votes are left. we think it is somewhere between 1,000 and 5,000 votes left to be counted. california, they're very suspenseful. we're not sure exactly how much, we're not exactly where, but b...

Indictment, and then mueller brings to it the justice department to whitaker to whom he reports for whitaker to sign off on it and whitaker says nope, i'll take that and he stuffs into it a desk drawer, how would we know? it's not like anybody has to make an announcement than. how would we know if that's what has been happening ever since matt whitaker arrived three weeks ago tomorrow? that's why it is all the more interesting that tonight we are getting a first look at what might be robert mueller's notebook, his sort of working file, because tonight nbc news has obtained a draft criminal inf...