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Understandi ining he's not takee reigns yet. that the subpoena is off the table? does the white house have that comfort and confidence? >> you know, i don't think they have the confidence that it's completely off the table, they have more confidence than they did a couple of weeks ago and they feel like in whitaker, they have something of a safety blanket or at least a way to control the process more. and to make president trump feel like he's in more control of what's going on. but they know that the investigation's going to keep going. there's no plan as far as i know for whitaker to stop th...

Naught whitaker and did he know before appointing him that he was a critic of the special counsel's investigation. kellyanne: the president has gone the to know him the last year' as he was work at the department of justice for 13 months as cheech of staff to attorney general sessions. the president has dealt with matt whitaker in many different situations in the white house. i watched them interact. i watched in whitaker brief the president. chris: did he know he was such a sharp why it i can of the mueller investigation. kellyanne: i am not aware of that. it's not clear to me that in whitake...

Naught whitaker and did he know before appointing him that he was a critic of the special counsel's investigation. kellyanne: the president has gone the to know him the last year' as he was work at the department of justice for 13 months as cheech of staff to attorney general sessions. the president has dealt with matt whitaker in many different situations in the white house. i watched them interact. i watched in whitaker brief the president. chris: did he know he was such a sharp why it i can of the mueller investigation. kellyanne: i am not aware of that. it's not clear to me that in whitake...

Acry combative press conference today for almost al hour and a half. at one point, branding a reporter's question as racist after she asked about his support for nationalist and whether that will support might embolden white nationalists. i want to bring in someone who had her own run oil in with the president today. april ryan, a white house correspondent and the author of "under fire, reporting from the frontlines of the trump white house." so it seemed like a perfectly legitimate question to most people it, april. good evening to you. i just want to get your response to this exchange betwee...

John kelly didn't even do it pa is to face but opted to fire him by phone. kelly even refused to grant sessions' request to stay on until friday. matthew whitaker who started the day as sessions chief of staff finishes as the acting ag. he will be overseeing the mueller investigation. relieving the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein of that responsibility. in whitaker, the president found an ally who has publicly questioned the scope of the investigation. i asked him last year why trump wouldn't publicly say if he would fire mueller. this is his answer. >> i think that it's very dangerous ...