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Announcement of his national emergency. >> i want to wish our new attorney general great luck and speed and enjoy your life. bill, good luck. a tremendous reputation. i know you'll do a great job. >> enjoy your life. meanwhile, there are reports that matt whitaker, who was the acting a.g., is still at the justice department, still on the federal payroll, serving as a senior counselor of some sort at doj. let's bring in our leadoff panel. frank figliuzzi. we want to welcome to the broadcast jessica roth, former federal prosecutor from the southern district of new york. these days, a professor a...

>> let's figure out what's going on here. because, first of all, willie, we have been hearing from one yocal after another and we even heard from ty cobb back i think in 1873 that the mueller investigation was going to be done. and they keep saying it's going to be over. this has all the classic markings of a frant ig -- frantic call from donald trump, an order, a scream. i keep hearing mueller's over in february. they just busted roger stone. you have to have roger stone. i remember right before they get manafort they say it's going to be over in a couple weeks. no, you're see to see what you...

Tenure. we saw sean spicer point to this when the issues with manafort first came into the spotlight. the fact is manafort was donald trump's campaign chairman during the most pivotal time of the campaign, during the republican national convention. i think it goes without saying that without paul manafort, donald trump would not be sitting in the oval office. but the fact of the matter is, there is just no other way to separate donald trump from the paul manafort. they are so inextricably intertwined at this point, not only during the campaign, but dating back years. dating back years, their m...

This news this morning. let's talk more about who these men are and how integral they were in the president's campaign and a lot more. with us now, our chief political correspondent dana bash. let's start with paul manafort. that's the name people know better. both important when it comes to trump world. let's go through manafort first. >> paul manafort was officially in the campaign for not that long of a period of time but he was there at a critical, critical juncture. you see on the screen there he was chairman from may of 2016 to august 2016. and he came on really as somebody who was sugge...