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In charge of the sdny investigation has a lot of democrats demanding to know whether whitaker told the truth in his testimony before the house judiciary committee. congressman eric swalwell is on the committee and he joins me now. so good to have you here. >> yeah, don, thank you very much. >> what do you think of this "new york times" report? >> i never thought the acting attorney general was worthy of being taken at his word and that we should test his accounts, you know, that he gave us, because it was contradicted by "the new york times" and other press reporting. and now this story today ...

Word, i'm not. there's still too many lingering questions. and his account is contradicted by press reporting. >> and you want him to come back? >> yeah. >> so you're on the house judiciary committee, he testified earlier on the month, very contentious. some of it right here. >> did the president lash out at you after michael cohen's guilty plea for lying to congress about a trump organization project to build a tower in moscow? >> the president specifically tweeted that he had not lashed out. >> i'm asking you, mr. whitaker, did the president lash out at you? not asking what he tweeted. i don...

Have -- do you believe or do you have evidence that whitaker shared information with the mueller investigation with the president? >> no. but we asked him, you know, had he done that, and he said "no." but there were other instances where it didn't appear that he was very truthful with us. so that's why i think bringing him in under oath. this was a voluntary interview. bringing him in, you know, under oath, under subpoena, and being able to confront him. and as he tries to say, oh, i can't answer this because of an executive privilege, well, then we need to start pressing those privileges and...

>> do you think in the senate to move forward on the attorney general and have you seen anything on his record that makes you think that's an effort to interfere with the mueller probe. >> we're just learned this through free press reporting. letters to rod rosenstein suggesting ways that the mueller probe is not valid. that concerns me. they have someone who prejudged the investigation and ha may have valid credentials, but like justice kavanaugh chosen by donald trump for the wrong reasons only because of views on mueller or executive authority. >> i'm curious how it has been the last couple...

Prejudged the outcome and these are series questions that he she have to answer. >> do you think in the senate to move forward on the attorney general and have you seen anything on his record that makes you think that's an effort to interfere with the mueller probe. >> we're just learned this through free press reporting. letters to rod rosenstein suggesting ways that the mueller probe is not valid. that concerns me. they have someone who prejudged the investigation and ha may have valid credentials, but like justice kavanaugh chosen by donald trump for the wrong reasons only because of views ...