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Inquiry. that's hard -- that's a lower sides of the aisle. he's not this sort of political bar to support than impeachment guy. he is kind of a straight arrow, frankly. and removal from office. and it is very difficult in the but you also asked that eyes of these sort of people, question. >> we did ask that question. these allies of taylor you could the numbers aren't as high as say. the impeachment inquiry. just people who worked with him to try to paint him as this sort but 48% of american voters of partisan guy who's out there support impeaching and removing to simply make trouble. and i th...

Legality of decisions of congress, i don't think i've ever heard anybody say that. he also said that the judiciary is the inferior branch of government and really needs to take a back seat to the legislative and executive. i don't think i've heard that before either. and frankly, i would think that would be even troubling to many conservatives, i understand that conservatives are upset with certain social decisions with the supreme court, but if conservatives are worried about overreach by the executive branch, why it's the courts that are there to place a check and balance on the other two br...

Unconstitutional. you mentioned the george conway op-ed in the "new york times." it's actually broader than that. there are prominent conservative lawyers, bush-era lawyers like john bellinger who agree with this interpret, that the constitution requires that he be senate confirmed. so those two pressures are really recruit nicing for him. >> we're going to have more on that with neal. so we've heard the legal arguments, that this is not constitutional or unconstitutional. but does the president have any argument that whitacre's appointment is actually legal? >> yeah.

John bellinger. so there's been a whole new body of political opinion, there's political dimension and the other story you mentioned, but matt whitaker is somebody that trump has seen as his guy inside the justice department even while he loathed and despised jeff sessions. matt whitaker was jeff sessions' chief of staff, but trump considered him his guy and a loyalist. and he was very much the guy in the room that kelly and trump saw as the only person, really, at the top level of the justice department that they could trust. particularly trump. he did not trust rod rosenstein, and according ...

The chilling effect it can have on folks who are not necessarily at the cabinet level essentially and whose livelihood may depend on their security clearance and the work they're doing in the defense industry and perfectly, you know, sort of responsible and public good jobs in effect, although they may not be in government who may feel chilled but also he may be undermining our institution's ability to do the work they need to do because he may be threatening security clearances of midlevel folks who are engaging in activity that he disagrees with. and as a consequence, they can't work on thos...