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Staff to then a.g. jeff sessions. later taking on the job of acting a.g. when sessions was fired by the president. speaking to an audience of one just like he did today on capitol hill. this is whitaker trying to act cute when chairman jerry nadler wanted to know if he'd been asked to approve any of mueller's actions. here it is. >> now, in your capacity as acting attorney general, have you ever been asked to approve any request or action to be taken by the special counsel? >> mr. chairman, i see that your five minutes is up, and so -- >> that went over like a lead balloon. and chairman nadler...

Want other people to know what was said. okay. then the question is why don't you want other people to know? and, you know, don, this is the, you know, 900th question on top of the, you know, 899th question of why are all of his people lying about the contacts that they had with russia? why is the president, every time he gets around vladimir putin, most notably last year, saying exactly what vladimir putin would have him say? you know, i get asked all the time, is there evidence of collusion? when is this investigation going to wrap up? i don't know the answer to that question, but there are ...

Time, is there evidence of collusion? when is this investigation going to wrap up? i don't know the answer to that question, but there are just hundreds of puzzling questions that we need to get to the bottom of in this case. >> listen, you're on the intelligence committee. do you think your committee should subpoena that interpreter? >> well, yes, i do. now, i know exactly how that plays out, and of course chairman schiff, when we actually -- when this first came up, when the reykjavik summit so famously landed like a lead balloon, i know that adam schiff at that point wanted to subpoena the ...

Trump presidency, but the prosecutor is not doing anything unethical, as of now there isn't anything on trump as to what the fundamental charge of the investigation supposed to be which is coordination and links with the russian government. the most we've seen as to that is most recently with the trump tower in moscow and the putin penthouse and that got about far off the ground as lead balloon. >> when the president says this is a trap, trap insinuates there's truth underlie to go it, you're protesting and sending lawyers and tweeting about it makes you seem guilty and doesn't -- heather: wel...

Classified briefing as you noted without anybody from the intelligence community here. they are not going to get those answers. that is frustration heading into the hearing. you also have the wall street journal opinion piece secretary of state mike pompeo. you mentioned it already. i'm told by several republican officials including one who said it landed like a lead balloon on capitol hill today. it's not so much that they disagree with the administration's policy on saudi arabia at least on the republican side of things. they understand the merits of the alliance and why the administration h...