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Acting attorney general, matt whitaker about trying to get the u.s. attorney in new york back on the cohen case even though he recused himself. where is the legal line of obstruction here? >> it's such a unique situation. basically trump's trying to put his thumb on the scale a little bit. he's thinking that berman is going to be friendly to him, maybe he'll quash the investigation. that action reflects his fundamental misunderstanding of two things, recusal and human nature. berman as a public official is saying i'm conflicted, i have to recuse, i can't do an impartial job of prosecutoring he...

Bobbing and weaving, running out the clock. six hours of political theater designed to impress an audience of one, by a man who's only going to be acting a.g. for just another few days and may very well be angling for his next job. so how did he do? white house officials telling cnn, quote, the hearing went as expected. i bet it did. and here's what officials were really expecting to hear. they were expecting to hear whitaker say that he didn't discuss the mueller investigation with trump, and the acting a.g., well, he delivered. >> the question is whether you shared your private opinions of t...

Acting attorney general matt whitaker dodging questions, bobbing and weaving, running out the clock. six hours of political theater designed to impress an audience of one, by a man who's only going to be acting a.g. for just another few days and may very well be angling for his next job. so how did he do? white house officials telling cnn, quote, the hearing went as expected. i bet it did. and here's what officials were really expecting to hear. they were expecting to hear whitaker say that he didn't discuss the mueller investigation with trump, and the acting a.g., well, he delivered. >> the ...