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Elijah cummins and he gets to call all those witnesses that he couldn't call before. so this isn't going to be about entertainment. this is going to be about getting to the truth. >> yea, you might choke on popcorn if they really dig down deep, but he has congressman schiff talking about his concern about acting attorney general matt whitaker in this administration. watch this. >> the american people need to know whether this president is obstructing justice, whether he's obstructed justice in the past, whether his appointment of whitaker was designed to obstruct justice, whether its having th...

His financial disclosure forms. >> we're calling for an investigation because there are a lot of unanswered questions. whitaker's treasurer says he was paying off debt, but the fec filings show that the only expenditures he made was for rent. he also said he didn't solicit these donations, so he doesn't appear to know why they were received either. >> reporter: the financial disclosure forms, which were edited at least five times in the last two weeks since whitaker was appointed acting attorney general, show $15,000 in other income as a legal analyst for cnn, while his critics now raise addit...

It's not the mueller team. i just want to make sure we're very clear about that. the agency looking at whether whitaker may have violated rules on federal employees by accepting political contributions to his own senatorial campaign while he was serving in the justice department. so he's serving in the justice department and accepting money, political contributions. laura jarrett is outfront. >> acting attorney general matt whitaker facing new questions tonight about a mysterious trail of campaign contributions as cnn has now learned that an independent federal agency looking into whether he m...

Oversight, a government watchdog group that filed an administrative complaint with the office of special counsel, an agency that says executive branch employees can be fined or reprimanded for violations. >> so after two years of being completely dormant and only after he joined jeff sessions' office as chief of staff, he started receiving a cluster of contributions from former clients of his when he was a lobbyist in iowa. it appears to violate the black letter law of the hatch act, which says public officials are not allowed to receive donations. >> when reached by phone on wednesday, whitak...

To this group, fact, what we do know the group was aggressively pushing for the investigation into hillary clinton and the clinton family foundation, something that whitaker, now as head of the justice department, would have the power to investigate. >> thank you very much, laura. appreciate that report with all that news. next, a democratic congresswoman calling out trump for being, quote, saudi arabia's expleti expletive. did she just stoop to trump's level? and a dozen freshman democrats vowing to oppose nancy pelosi as house speaker. but now they're falling like flies. what happened? i...