Nadler: Whitaker Did Not Deny Talking to Trump About Cohen Case

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NADLER: “Well, remember that Jeff Sessions was fired as attorney general for one reason and one reason only, he recused himself from involvement in the Russia investigation. And the president fired him for that reason. He said he wanted an attorney general who would personally protect him from the investigation. And then he appoints Whitaker who had no visible qualifications for the job at that level except that he had commented very negatively on Mueller’s investigation. And so he went in there specifically so as not to be recused. And so the question obviously -- and then in the testimony yesterday when presented directly with an opportunity to deny that the president talked to him about the Michael Cohen investigation he refused -- he refused to deny it. He evaded a lot of the questions but he refused to deny it.”