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Nearly two years in the trump presidency. should the president not have known better than to have this type of conversation at that point? >>ry can't figure thi can't fig out. it's 7:00 in the morning and i'm ticked off here. what in the heck did the president think whitaker was going do? let's play this out. he's going to pick up the phone and call the u.s. attorney and tell him i want you to recuse yourself? that gets to the "new york times" in fen .2 seconds. what did the president learn about out offing jim comey? you're trying to interfere with an investigation, you get robert mueller. fo...

Frustrated or see anything substantive happen. >> they decided no to deliver the subpoena during the hearing. that doesn't mean tomorrow morning they won't show up with it. chris cillizza, what are you watching for today? >> talk about drama. that would be amazing to hand him the subpoena during the hearing. largely it will be political theate theater. i don't think whitaker on his way out the door with bill barr's confirmation potentially next week, i don't think he'll answer the questions jerry n nadler wants answered. so what information can they extract if any? he's in a position to shine ...

Opinion is necessary for him to capitulate the conversation. james comey knew he could not sit there with this righteous indignation for fear of what people would say about him and how he would be perceived. i don't think whitaker cares about that. what do you have to hide? why can't you just answer the question? >> it is a righteous. >> yeah. look, maybe this was to make barr look really good by contrast. look, this guy, barr is on deck. he will be gone soon.

End of last week this is likely to be a very short interim appointment. trump is looking at other candidates and facing some pressure to not select whitaker for the permanent job. we'll see how long it lasts. >> eric, you've interviewed whitaker in the context of iowa and politics. what's your measure of the man? >> you know, listen, i think he's a political animal. you know, going back to ken's point, in the position in the camp that he can't be attorney general because the constitution constitutional. article two, section two, clause two principle officers have to be confirmed by the senate ...

Court back in the 1800s, decided a case that said under certain limited circumstances and special circumstances that someone could be appointed for a limited time. then we have the federal vacancy act that actually defines that. congress defined what a limited time means. it's up to 210 days. so they've got to actually fill certain requirements under that law and unfortunately, mr. whitaker does, and so he can be appointed for up to 210 days without senate confirmation. the only way to find that his appointment was illegal was if that law was struck down and that law was found unconstitutional...