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Only publicly available information, and i am comfortable that the decisions that were made are going to be reviewed, you know, either through the various means we have, but right now the investigation is, i think, close to being completed, and i hope that we can get the report from director mueller as soon as possible. >> whitaker under the hot lights of the doj briefing room for the first time in his tenure thus far. it's still unclear how much of that report the public will get to see. tonight the "washington post" is reporting trump ag nominee william barr, the man who is on track to repla...

Information, and i am comfortable that the decisions that were made are going to be reviewed, you know, either through the various means we have, but right now the investigation is, i think, close to being completed, and i hope that we can get the report from director mueller as soon as possible. >> whitaker under the hot lights of the doj briefing room for the first time in his tenure thus far. it's still unclear how much of that report the public will get to see. tonight the "washington post" is reporting trump ag nominee william barr, the man who is on track to replace whether it kerr, shou...

I want to bring in now cnn's justice reporter, laura jarrett. laura, good evening to you. what's going on? >> hey there, don. this story is really about how the president views the justice department, and here's what happened. on at least two occasions in the past few weeks, the president vented at his acting attorney general, hand-picked, matthew whitaker, about the michael cohen investigations. the president angered in particular by federal prosecutors referencing him in crimes that cohen pleaded guilty to. according to multiple sources, telling myself and pamela brown that trump was really ...

Wit kerr oversees as the acting attorney general, filed charges that made trump look bad. of course those hush money payments to women surrounding the 2016 election. and now none of those sources say that the president actually directed whitaker to stop the investigations, but these discussions between whitaker and trump really underscore the extent to which the president believes the attorney general should serve as his personal protector. and it gives a glimpse into the strange, some might say unsettling dynamic of a sitting president talking to the u.s. attorney general about investigations...

Because all of the rest of the wire fraud, extortion and bribery charges are components rack tearing charge. shep? >> blago, what has he been doing to pass the time, mike? >> he spent the day up in the second floor you look at that guy, you would think he is under no stress at all. patty is a little bit different. she shows the stress and his brother robert sits across the cafeteriaened at two of them don't talk, shep. >> shepard: mike tobin hope the food is good there on planet blago. thank you. for the third time in the past two years general motors is putting a new leader in the drivers sea...