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The judge hadn't ruled on collusion. and thus another news cycle comes and goes. we'll go back to manafort in just a moment. but we want to bring you the other moment from today. it involves matt whitaker. he was acting attorney general under donald trump until recently. but he was called back to capitol hill today for a follow-up to his public testimony as delivered to the house judiciary committee that was a month ago. during that february hearing whitaker, you'll recall, was asked whether trump ever attempted to intervene in the southern district of new york case regarding michael cohen. >>...

The president went and repeated it later at the white house. it didn't seem to matter that the judge hadn't ruled on collusion. and thus another news cycle comes and goes. we'll go back to manafort in just a moment. but we want to bring you the other moment from today. it involves matt whitaker. he was acting attorney general under donald trump until recently. but he was called back to capitol hill today for a follow-up to his public testimony as delivered to the house judiciary committee that was a month ago. during that february hearing whitaker, you'll recall, was asked whether trump ever a...

Of business. he didn't say -- he did not specify that. he said whitaker must talk about the probe and effecting michael cohen. he said whitaker suggested he went too far. it is a little bit behind closed doors. >> yeah. standby. the justice department reporter is with us. you were reporting extensively on what he was saying monthing ago. it certainly doesn't come as any surprise to you. >> no. and the issue was how he was

>> it is where or in the he may have attempted to obstruct justice. the president of the united states discussing firing u.s. attorneys. it is inappropriate to discuss firing a particular u.s. attorney for example the u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york because he recused in the oversight of the investigation because he wants to replace him much like he did when he fired attorney general jeff sessions. it nears the firingover jam of comey. it's that doing it for a corrupt purpose is a violation of the law. so first and foremost there's a question about whether or not whitaker m...

Whether it is something that bob mueller whether this is something that bob mueller would want to hear about from whitaker. behind closed doors this is what he said he did not say no. what did he say? >> he didn't want to say yes. >> he didn't have to. >> but i would think it is something mueller would be interested in. >> mueller or this is what congress is supposed to do. >> yes. >> this is one of the play jor downsides and major upsides for democrats and dare i say finding out basic facts of having democrats in charge of the house of representatives in charge of the committees that will loo...