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Expected to be focused on his previous comments on whether he had contact with the president about the investigation into business dealings involving michael cohen, including hush money payments, excuse me. >> so as the "wall street journal" believes it has everyday the president asked the ag for the southern district of new york jeffrey berman, a trump ally could take back control. previous reports suggested there is no sign. whitaker acted on any request. according to journal the judiciary committee is looking at whether whitaker may have perjured himself in his prior appearance when he told...

Some issues surrounding the clinton foundation and hillary clinton. and patrick leahy said he is a man i have always respected and the best thing the administration can do is get somebody who would have ma skwro -- majority support. bar is somebody who has been confirmed before by the senate. >> that's true. on the other hand these are not normal times. what is happening is we have a president who just cares about appointing people who are going to do his bidding and that's not what we need as an attorney general. by the way, deputy attorney general rosenstein was also confirmed, and we have s...

Acting attorney general has been confirmed by the senate for some position in the government. the president could have chosen someone like that. the deputy attorney general. the secretary of trans. any of those people confirmed by the senate. but he didn't. and maryland says, therefore, that choice of whitaker is illegal. they're asking the judge for an order right away declaring that rosenstein is the stronger. >> he also said he didn't know matt whitaker and alas, he does. up next, a close associate of roger stone's says he thinks he's going to be indicted for perjury. first, the florida r...

Have a hard time. tell us what's going on today. >> asking a federal judge to declare the acting attorney general is rosenstein, not whitaker. the president put whitaker in under a federal law that allowed a president to choose a range of people, including somebody who's at the relevant agency for 90 days and makes a certain amount on the pay scale. maryland argues that law is trumped by a law that more specifically says whenever there's a vacancy in the office of the attorney general, the deputy attorney general takes over. the second argument is a constitutional one. they say anyone who serv...

From the program entirely. garrett tenney has the latest. >> democrats argue that whitaker is essentially the president hatchet man appointed to destroy the mueller investigation. today top democrat also sent a letter to the justice department chief ethics official asking if he's the vice whitaker to recuse himself in the special account investigation similar to a former attorney general jeff sessions was told by ethics officials. if he doesn't recuse himself, democrats are vowing to launch investigations once they take control of the house in january. >> i want to make this very clear. if he ...