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The nomination. the justice department defended this appointment on the same grounds they attack it on. they say it's true that he wasn't confirmed by the senate, but he didn't need to be because the office of abocting attorney general doesn't require senate confirmation because it's temporary. but they say in their lawsuit that that's a legal fiction, quote, it's a fiction that there exists an office of acting attorney general different from the office of attorney general even though the duties and responsibilities are the same. last week the justice department office's legal counsel put out ...

Traditionally red are now sort of being a lot more competitive. if you are a republican, you absolutely have a smaller map to the white house now than you did before donald trump was president. >> let's talk about this other developing story. matt whittaker. three democratic senators the latest to challenge the constitutionality of his appointment. pete williams is standing by. pete, walk us through this here if you can. >> this is the third legal challenge to the whittaker appointment. it was just filed in federal court in washington by three democratic senators. richard blumenthal, sheldon w...

Attack the mueller investigation in total? >> i think the attacks as we've seen for the last week and the fact that president trump seems to be coming unglued over what the progress over the process the mueller investigation is making. i think that he knows and the reason he's lashing out now is that he knows he blew it. the time to really obstruct this investigation was long ago. he's been complaining about jeff sessions and his lack of recusal for a year and a half and the backlash the whittaker appointment has seen not only among democrats, but among republicans, i think shows him the train...

Allegation or assertions and then expands it to create a whole narrative out there that isn't even based on the original source such as it is. i don't know what this is based on and clearly, though, a renewal of this war he's having and has had with the special counsel. we had a two month during the election, mueller kept his head low. now that the election is over we saw with the whittaker appointment and now this tweet he's going to be engaging again and we're headed back into that full fledge battle the prosecutors who are pursuing him. >> the president's description in that tweet is based ...