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Court order to that effect. and it's interesting, there's a hot legal debate going on right now between constitutional scholars about whether whitaker's appointment was constitutional in the first place. we've heard from george conway, kellyanne's husband weighing in on that. our legal expert thinks it is constitutional. the office of legal counsel, the chief legal officer, the law firm for the administration is planning to issue an opinion hopefully later today which will lay all of this out, defending the decision under the federal vacancies act. the question is whether trump effectively cre...

Swalwell. >> that's true about sessions, but i question whether whitaker will be the attorney general two months from now. i think swalwell's statement is interesting because donald trump presents so many ripe targets for democrats, there is a temptation to go after everything. we saw in last week's press conference where donald trump went on for 90 minutes and overshadowed nancy pelosi's first press conference that it will be difficult to breakthrough. it's going to be difficult for democrats not only to prioritize, but to make sure the targets of the investigations breakthrough. trump presen...

Deadline white house with john heilemann in for nicolle wallace starts right now. >> it's 4:00 in new york city. i'm john heilemann in for nicolle wallace. acting attorney general matthew whitaker, the man now responsible for overseeing the mueller probe finds himself today in a position not unfamiliar to many high-ranking trump administration officials. walking around with a bright red target on his back. questions are now mounting around conversations whitaker may have had with the white house in the run-up to his promotion from jeff sessions' chief of staff to acting ag and whether whitaker...

Acting attorney general. trump told reporters at the white house on friday that he did not know matt whitaker, the chief of staff to former attorney general jeff sessions, even though he told fox and friends just last month that, in fact, he did know matt whitaker. democrats are questioning everything from whether whitaker's appointment as acting attorney general was constitutional, given whitaker wasn't confirmed by the senate for that role, to whether whitaker should recuse himself given that he's been quite critical of robert mueller in the past. meanwhile, democratic congressman jerry nadl...

According to an alleged victim contacted by the fbi and other people familiar with the matter, mr. whitaker as head of the justice department oversees the fbi in his new job. "washington post" says the feds 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 lead-off panel on a friday night. philip rucker, pulitzer prize winning bureau chief for "the washington post." tamara keith, white house correspondent for npr. and mimi rocah, former u.s. assistant attorney ...