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The hill on behalf of an acting attorney general whitaker. and it made a point of saying, you know, nothing has changed at doj. rod rosenstein is still in charge of the mueller investigation. but at the same time, the acting attorney general has declined to recu recuse, and that means he can step in at any moment in time. so on the one hand, he's trying to pacify us and tell us, you know, nothing to look at here. move along. but at the same time, we know he's a threat to the investigation. a threat we shouldn't ignore at this point. >> mike schmidt, donald trump said to you in an interview abo...

He may claim executive privilege for those. >> ari melber, i think this is a first. an attorney general appearing on a topic about which he is recused. >> it is awkward, to say the least. it is legally difficult for him to walk this line, although according to the justice department and the trump white house, he now does want to walk this line because he wants to at least address some of these things. i think if we take a step back and actually put the legalese to the side, jim comey told a story last week, and it was a story about lies, as he put it, defamation, as he put it, and a white hous...

Overseeing an investigation. let's listen in. >> you cannot have somebody, a friend of mine, jeff sessions, on the campaign and who is an appoint appointee. you're going to need to use the special prosecutors statute in office to take not just to re z recu recuse, but you do have to do that. we're going to have to do it. >> all right, tom, your reaction to that. what do you think? should there be sexes recussion recusing him or a special investigation? >> you know, i think this whole thing should back up a little bit and try to find perspective. for example, you know, the reason i think that t...

Sessions seems to be rebuffing the suggestion that he might resign. the president criticized his recusal. the president saying the decision was unfair to the president. and that president trump wouldn't have asked him to become attorney general if he knew sessions would remove himself from overseeing the investigation. of course, those comments drew a lot of speculation. white house deputy press secretary sarah huckabee sanders has clarified, in part, saying the president does have confidence in sessions. but really was just disappointed in the decision sessions made to recu recuse. >> clearly...