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Hearing erupts as Acting AG Whitaker calls time on Dem chairman: ‘Your 5 minutes is up’
Fox News ^ | Februry 8, 2019 | Brooke Singman

Posted on 02/08/2019 8:46:38 AM PST by jazusamo

Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker stunned onlookers and lawmakers during an already-contentious House hearing Friday, when he tried to call time on the Democratic chairman after yet another line of questioning regarding Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe.

The retort came after Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., first said he wanted Whitaker to appear for a private deposition after the hearing and went on to ask Whitaker whether he had been “asked to approve any requests or action” for the special counsel.

“Mr. Chairman, I see that your five minutes is up, so…” Whitaker replied as the hearing room broke out in gasps. “I am here voluntarily. We have agreed to five-minute rounds.”

Nadler, who even cracked a slight smile at the response, repeated his question, and Whitaker ultimately responded: “I have not interfered in any way with the special counsel’s investigation.”

The fiery back and forth follows a dramatic political prelude to the hearing itself, complete with threats by Nadler to subpoena the witness and threats by the DOJ to boycott. Democrats are acutely focused on Whitaker's oversight of the Mueller probe, in his acting AG status while awaiting confirmation of President Trump's attorney general pick William Barr.

“There has been no change in the overall management of the special counsel investigation,” Whitaker testified Friday, saying that he never offered any “promises or commitments” regarding the Mueller or any other investigation.

Nadler pressed Whitaker over whether he had shared information about the investigation with Trump, or any White House officials.

“I do not intend today to talk about my private conversations, but to answer your question, I did not talk to the president about the status of the investigation,” Whitaker answered. “Consistent with what I’ve already said, I have not talked about the special counsel’s investigation with any White House...

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Russia; US: New York; US: Texas
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1 posted on 02/08/2019 8:46:38 AM PST by jazusamo
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To: jazusamo

Wow...Whitaker is a bull.....very different from Princess Comey


2 posted on 02/08/2019 8:49:41 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: jazusamo

LOLOL!!

Love it!


3 posted on 02/08/2019 8:51:44 AM PST by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: Sacajaweau

YEAH!! YEAH!!! YEAH!!! A FIGHTER!! ON OUR SIDE!! YEAH!


4 posted on 02/08/2019 8:51:46 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Sacajaweau
So, a demo lib 5 minutes is not the same 5 minutes as normal people? ⏲🙀😹
5 posted on 02/08/2019 8:52:20 AM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: jazusamo
Nadler, who even cracked a slight smile at the response,

Careful. Smirks are punishable.

6 posted on 02/08/2019 8:53:11 AM PST by Delta 21
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To: Sacajaweau

Trump should probably just stick with this guy.


7 posted on 02/08/2019 8:53:33 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: jazusamo

Love it.


8 posted on 02/08/2019 8:54:10 AM PST by rrrod (just an old guy with a gun in his pocket)
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To: jazusamo

“Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker”

Could’ve fooled me. Mueller is and Mat is letting him run the place. Pathetic dog and pony show.


9 posted on 02/08/2019 8:55:02 AM PST by Electric Graffiti (Cocked, locked and ready to ROCK!)
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To: jazusamo

“Good Day Sir
ISAIDGOODDAY!!!”

John Adams would be proud!


10 posted on 02/08/2019 8:55:48 AM PST by smvoice (I WILL NOT WEAR THE RIBBON)
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To: Ann Archy

Yep!

Nadler is a pompous a$$ with delusions of grandeur and Whitaker cut him down a notch or two. :^)


11 posted on 02/08/2019 8:56:13 AM PST by jazusamo (Have You Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
The President can't...Whitaker can not move to be the Permanent AG. He was allowed to hold this seat only with certain conditions...and that was one of them.

He's holding the seat for Barr.

Remember, the alternative was the rules of succession which means Rosenstein would have become AG.

12 posted on 02/08/2019 8:57:00 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Sacajaweau

Doesn’t come off as overly smart though... I like the fact he stuck to the chairman, as did several others by the sound of it, but he seems kind of like a jock debating a bunch of nerds.


13 posted on 02/08/2019 8:57:17 AM PST by Mathews (Ecclesiastes 10:2 (NIV), Luke 22:36 (NIV))
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To: jazusamo

He did it to Nadler! It would have been funny if Nadler reinflated to his pre-stomach staple self.


14 posted on 02/08/2019 8:57:23 AM PST by dead (Our next president is going to be sooooo boring.)
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To: Delta 21
Careful. Smirks are punishable.

Only if you're wearing a MAGA hat.

15 posted on 02/08/2019 8:57:28 AM PST by Fresh Wind (Trump: "America will never be a socialist country!")
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To: jazusamo

I was outside and walked back in and heard shouting from the hearing and wondered WHO it was and it was Collins from GA really raking Nadler over the coals - it was priceless. Nadler was sitting right beside him.

Wish Whitaker could wrap his huge hands around that jerk’s neck...I don’t think he had a clue about what was going on as an aide behind him had to keep reaching over his shoulder to show him something or to clarify something for him. I have to wonder how these people even manage to get to work in the mornings..


16 posted on 02/08/2019 8:58:48 AM PST by Thank You Rush
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To: Buckeye McFrog

I know. Forget that friend of Herr Mueller (William Barr).

Stick with this guy.


17 posted on 02/08/2019 8:59:34 AM PST by Responsibility2nd
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MAGA!

Let’s wrap this Freepathon up, Folks!

Please bump the Freepathon or click above to donate or become a monthly donor!

18 posted on 02/08/2019 8:59:50 AM PST by jazusamo (Have You Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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To: jazusamo

Rules is rules.

“We had an agreement.

Five minutes and no more.

So I guess I don’t have to stick to my side of the agreement, either.

I refer specifically to point number 6 which states ‘Witness will not throw any dead animals at a questioner’.

Here’s your dead mackerel!

(Thwap!)”


19 posted on 02/08/2019 9:00:11 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Sacajaweau

‘Acting’ are frequently moved to the permanent job. They have to step aside from the ‘Acting’ job to be nominated.


20 posted on 02/08/2019 9:00:39 AM PST by jjotto (Next week, BOOM!, for sure!)
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