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Whid spread criticism of his past comments against the mueller investigation and recusing himself. >> whisker i don't know him. he worked for jeff sessions. he was always extremely highly thought of. he still is. i didn't know whittaker. he worked for attorney general sessions. he was very highly thought of. and still is. but this only comes up because anybody that works for me, they do a number of them. mat whittaker is a smart man. >> just to review. the president claims not to know his own choice for acting tone general and didn't just say it once either. >> i don't know mat whittaker. i di...

Make matt whittaker his acting attorney general, a move that puts a critic of the probe in charge of it. >> i didn't know matt whittaker. he worked for attorney general sessions. he was very, very highly thought of and still is highly thought of, but this only comes up because anybody that works for me, they do a number on them. >> reporter: the president repeatedly claimed he didn't know whittaker. >> i don't know matt whittaker. >> reporter: but that's not true if you believe what mr. trump told "fox news" last month. >> i never talk about that, but i can tell you matt whittaker is a great g...

States claims to know who he is. >> i don't know him. he worked for jeff sessions. he was extremely highly thought of and he still is. i didn't know matt whittaker. >> he clearly does know whittaker well enough to appoint him acting ag. he told fox news he knew whittaker last month. >> i can tell you he's a great guy. i know matt whittaker. >> i mean we have the tapes. come on. back in september the new york times reported on the good relationship the two men share. critics aren't concerned with him relationship with the president. they take issue with his history of partisan opinion about rob...

Been sold the fact that there was some really good information that they needed to hear and having been in campaigns, i know what that pitch looks like and you would always have somebody from the campaign take that meeting and hear that person out. >> whittaker made his feelings about the russia probe crystal clear in an opinion piece for cnn back in august of 2017. the headline, "mueller's investigation of trump is going too far." joining us now is cnn crime and justice reporter, shimon prokupecz who joins us right here. can you just walk us through what we know happened here, and what the im...