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>> the committee will come to -- i will point out we didn't enforce the five-minute rule on acting attorney general whitaker. >> reporter: whitaker denies any conversations with the president or other white house officials about the special counsel's investigation, which whitaker overseas before or after he took over the top spot at the doj. >> at no time has the white house asked for nor have i promised any promises or commitments concerning the special counsel's investigation or any other investigation. >> it's a yes or no question, have you communicated anything you learned in that briefing...

Will point out that we didn't enforce the five-minute rule on acting attorney general whitaker. >> whitaker didn't deny if anything regarding the white house investigation which whitaker oversees before of after he took over the top spot at the doj. >> at no time has the white house talked to nor have i promised concerning the special counsel's investigation or any other investigation. >> it's a yes or no question? have you communicated anything you've learned about the investigation to president trump, yes or no? >> mr. chairman, as i said earlier stored in my opening remarks, i do not intend...

Insult. i say it because the company has already been shut down by the federal trade commission and was ordered to pay a $26 million settlement against these fraud claims from the federal government. matt whitaker among other things is believed to have defied that settlement, to not pay back his share of the proceeds from the fraud. he's reported to have dodged a subpoena for his own records and communications with the company at the heart of the fraud. "the wall street journal" has also reported that the scheme is also the subject of a criminal investigation by the fbi, which is particularly ...

Personally and specifically as to whether he had been involved in issuing legal threats to defrauded customers of this sham company who threatened to complain or make public their experience being ripped off by this firm with which whitaker was associated. matt whitaker of course is also apparently supervising the russia investigation now being carried out by robert mueller's special counsel office, despite whitaker's extensive public remarks criticizing that investigation and despite his own close relationship with a key player in the russia scandal. the trump campaign national chairman, same...

1989, the supreme court ruled in u.s. v. eaton that a principle office like this is constitutional if the person has served in that office for 90 days, which whitaker has. so, is it a constitutional crisis? >> i don't think so. there's very well respected legal experts who have weighed in, saying that they think this is an unconstitutional appointment. i don't agree. when i was in the department, there were numerous instances where we had temporary acting people, sometimes staff people if the attorney general was traveling or the deputy was unavailable. i think so long as the duration is prope...