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Guard young childrens developing brains from the dangers of tackle football. Keep an eye on this bill, if it becomes law, many other states can get on board too, all in the name of keeping athletes safe. We may not see tackle football until high school. The beat with ari melber starts right now, good evening, ari. Good evening chuck, and thanks very much. President trump is about to land back in washington this hour, the first time on u. S. Soil since these reports that donald trump ordered the fire of Special Counsel bob mueller whos investigating him all the way back in june. The plan you ma...

That -- that there's any problem with the probe. i think that rosenstein who's been working with mueller, overseeing mueller, i think mueller's an adult, i think he understands what the timetable looks like and what the politics are like here in terms of just going forward with his job. i think everybody understands that. and i think, as you said, john, the questions now for barr will just be will you let him finish his job? and i think that will be the commitment that they try to get out of him. >> and it will be interesting to see if senators, particularly republican senators, demand an answ...

Senate. his involvement with a company that appears to be under fbi investigation, according to public reports. his involvement today reported in a publicly supported land deal that he appears to have walked away from that left a lot of victims and unhappy people including government agencies that appointed money for it. there is also his public statements about the mueller investigation. all of these things would go into his vetting by the senate if he were up for confirmation, which he is not. on the issue of overseeing the mueller investigation, though, the question of potential conflicts o...

On the issue of overseeing the mueller investigation, though, the question of potential conflicts of interest, the question of him prejudging the case, presumably the ethics officials at the justice department would consider those when deciding whether or not he should be recused from overseeing mueller. how does that process work, though? and how much transparency are we allowed to see? how much transparency are we allowed into that process in terms of seeing whether he has been given that advice? >> so the way the process works is that the attorney general would ask the career ethics folks a...

Or not it's constitutional. the question mwhether or not its an appointment for purposes of the constitution. as to some of the other views you mentioned, ana, look, matt whitaker has a number of very troubling views. not only the view you mentioned which would be unconstitutional, that we have a religious test for judges, but he doesn't believe that courts should have judicial review of whether or not laws are constitutional. it was recently reported that he believes in nullification, which we did away with in the civil war, the argument that states can do away with federal law. the reason pe...