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Reporting that whitaker had briefed trump on many occasions before the president preferred not to talk to sessions, and that whitaker met with the president in the oval office more than a dozen times. the man who is now in charge of overseeing the mueller investigation has on multiple occasions discredited it. just before he rejoined the doj in october of 2017, he was asked if he was worried about the special counsel investigation's scope and if it could turn into a fishing expedition. >> i think it smells a little fishy. >> so he went on to say that he would be sure to shut it down if it did....

The trump campaign. there was interference by the russians into the election, but that is not the collusion with the campaign. that's where the left seems to be just combining those two issues. the effort by jim comey to get this, you know, put in place and have somebody that he's very familiar with in bob mueller conducting the investigation. so i think it smells a little fishy, but i just hope it doesn't turn into a fishing expedition, because i will be one of the ones jumping up and down making sure that the limitations on this investigation continue because that's the way it's supposed to ...

Known before. he's gotten away with it. so maybe he thinks he can get away with it again here. but what's very clear is that whether it was an explicit agreement or whether whitaker was just sort of winking at trump in these television appearances and trump plucked him out of the wilds of iowa to come be the staff for the attorney general which made him eligible for this appointment, there's been a meeting of the minds about why he's there and trump wants him there. >> jeremy, in addition to being a person of good substance you have good political antenna. do you think that donald trump is, at...

Now attracted the scrutiny of federal investigators. "wall street journal" reports tonight that the fbi, quote, is conducting a criminal investigation of a florida company accused of scamming millions from customers during the period that matthew whitaker served as a paid advisory board member. mr. whitaker as head of the justice department oversees the fbi in his new job. "washington post" says the if he does are not only looking at that company but at whether whitaker played a role in trying to silence the firm's critics. let's bring you two brand-new pieces of reporting as we bring in our l...

And as we mentioned earlier, the business practices of a company that whitaker once advised have now attracted the scrutiny of federal investigators. "wall street journal" reports tonight that the fbi, quote, is conducting a criminal investigation of a florida company accused of scamming millions from customers during the period that matthew whitaker served as a paid advisory board member. according to an alleged victim who was contacted by the fbi and other people familiar with the matter, mr. whitaker as head of the justice det oversees the fbi in his new job. west says the feds are not only...