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Ainsley: we thought he was going to step down when jeff sessions did and whitaker was appointed as the acting and thought he would at the step down then and he didn't. he stayed on. are you saying you think the report is complete. >> i think the report is largely complete. many of us expected the report to come out sometime at the end of the year beginning of the new year. there is some time that will be needed by congress. they are losing runway if they want to take off from this report. time is of the essence for congress. they have a two-year clock running. steve: jonathan, over the last ye...

Country, which is this russia probe and makes it even worse. >> and, of course the questions we all have is how did whitaker respond to the president as he is having these conversations. we know nadler is demanding whitaker testify before the house judiciary committee. could we get answers then, or is this something whitaker would be able to claim executive privilege on? >> what an unnecessary debacle. right? this is all so avoidable. whether congress can get something out of acting attorney general whitaker now, this is unfolding. yet to be seen. it is good house democrats will take seriously...

Justice department with the sacking of jeff session, sessions is out so trump can get a much more political player in that position. i think he is looking at getting rid of john kelly, mr. nuchen, kelly, for people in those positions that will protect him. >> absolutely. will continue to do his bidding. thank you for that. >> although, they did get fixen's tax returns. so we can relive a lot of history. >> he may look okay after this term. >> he may look out all right. we will talk more about trump's military in a coming block. but how bizarre was trump's call with those military leaders on th...

Investigation. we know that really bothered the president and was in some way as game changer for the posture that the president and his lawyers have taken towards mueller and the justice department since then, really upping and launching more attacks on them. >> and senator blumenthal, in terms of potential fallout here on capitol hill with your colleagues, i'm wondering about this issue of whitaker's temporary appointment as attorney general, the administration fighting to keep him in there for up to about seven months potentially. will this have a bearing on that? specifically i think i'm w...

Right? again, the principle here is simple. the president can certainly replace anyone in his cabinet. there is nothing wrong with that in the abstract. but you can't do that sort of thing for the corrupt purpose of diverting or stymieing or getting some sort of advantage over an ongoing criminal investigation that the president fears might hurt him. but now today, like he did with the comey firing, the president has simply and bluntly volunteered that's that's in fact what he did, that that's in fact what he was thinking about when he installed this new guy at justice. conservative website ca...