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Ethics official told whitaker's staff he should recuse himself from supervision of the special counsel investigation because it was their view that a reasonable person with knowledge of the relevant facts likely would question the impartiality of the acting attorney general. that was not enough to convince whitaker to recuse. the justice department outlining his reasons in the same letter saying ethics officials could find no personal or financial interest that would require recus recusal. and that whitaker thought mueller was quote, a good man and would only go after legitimate targets. >> he...

About clarence accusations that anita hill made. the same thing could happen to judge kavanaugh. you had been discussing the last day or so the talk among democrats of having an impeachment proceeding if theat was the case. there's a real constitutional question about whether impeachment can be used before a person came into office. can you impeach someone for something they did before they became a supreme court justice or is it only to be used for punishment, official misdeeds while in office. that's an unresolved question. >> i've asked you this before. he's talk about the issue of recus re...

Campaign last year when he was first hired in march 2016, despite having no experience in that arena. there's been reason to dismiss jeff sessions for a long time. we know that he lied on his sf-86 security clearance forms. we know that now that he likely committed perjury and we know about this meeting with kislyak, so when trump is possibly trying to set up some sort of pretext, as if he actually cares about the legal process, and views sessions as anything more than his personal attorney, which is basically what sessions has been, sessions was put there not to uphold the u.s. constitution b...

Ouch. poor spicer. all of this races the question, can president trump actually fire special prosecutor robert mueller? so, yes, watching this, chris ruddy is the friend, sean spicer, what did he know? put that aside. does president trump have the right to get rid of robert mueller? >> i have to press this button to tell you. press the button for me. can the president fire the special counsel? here's the answer according to our legal department that's looked into it very clearly. not lawfully in one action. in other words, you can't say, you're fired. only the attorney general can fire the spe...

That's what we're going to be looking for once we see sessions in that chair later on this afternoon, guys. >> don't we need to dig into also what recusal actually means? >> right. >> i turned to devon nunez. he has recused himself, except, of course, he hasn't. >> he hasn't really. >> he holds the power. he makes the final decision. >> he can subpoena people still. people hear recuse and think, totally out of the whole thing when it m comes to a particular topic. doesn't seem to be that clear, kasie. >> well, it should be in this case, extraordinarily clear. this is a legal definition that is...