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President? we know that whitaker was someone who was on cnn who was able to reach the president that way and to get on his radar. and then very unusual pick to run the justice department. if he was good enough to run the justice department, would he be good enough to run another department within the government? >> there are a lot of openings. >> so does that put whitaker in an unusual spot where he has to try and prove something to the president? it's different. >> it is that. joyce vance and mike schmidt, thank you so much. donald trump may have tempted fate when he told nancy pelosi and c...

Right? because this comes just a couple days, or shortly i should say after the president submitted his written questions -- his written answers to the special counsel. sources telling cnn, john, that the acting attorney general, matthew whitaker, has informed -- was informed ahead of time for this. if the president put whitaker in charge of the d.o.j. to help him with this russia investigation, he can't be really happy with him right now, can he? >> well, it's not clear from the reporting which has been mixed all day as to whether or not rosenstein is still in charge of the russia investigati...

Which were provided just recently. you know, i'm sure -- i think we know that this subject was among the subjects about which mueller's operation provided questions to president trump. we're going to see now whether those answers were consistent with what we learned today. >> yeah, i think the timing is important, right? because this comes just a couple days or shortly i should say after the president submitted his written questions, his written answers to the special counsel. sources telling cnn, john, that acting attorney general matthew whitaker has enformed, was informed ahead of time for ...

That he wasn't the sharpest knife in our drawer. he doubts that whitaker would derail the russia investigation. given that mueller seems to be plowing ahead, do you think comey is right? >> i'm not going to characterize particularly somebody i don't know. i have no idea what his capabilities are. >> but what about the second part of the question then? that given what mueller seems to -- what he knows he seems to be plowing ahead right now? >> mueller does? >> yeah. >> yeah, he is plowing ahead. and is i said earlier, he is incredibly careful. look, almost every single one of his filings in thi...

>> go on, jack. >> i think whitaker had to have been informed. he is in charge of the department. i can't imagine that rosenstein would jeopardize his standing, i mean particularly after that recent outrageous tweet depicting him and everyone else as being behind bars, i can't imagine that will rosenstein would have knowledge of this filing it happening the next dale and not have informed whitaker. i believe he did. and that whitaker in turn informed the president and my surmise is that whitaker of correctly calculated that he would really be in jeopardy particularly up on the hill if he did s...