thank you very much for watching. i'm wolf blitzer in "the situation room. erin burnett starts right now. "outfront" next, a clash on capitol hill. democrats sparring with the acting attorney general for president trump over the mueller probe. a congresswoman who led the charge against matthew whitaker is out front. plus the white house blowing off a dead 39 explain the horrific and brutal murder of jamal khashoggi. what is the connection between president trump, saudi arabia and the national enquiner? and prosecutors now investigating the "national enquirer" after jeff bezos accused them. could it be bad news for trump? good evening. out front, sparks flying on capitol hill over the russia

probe. president trump's acting attorney general grilled by democrats and some republicans on his role overseeing the mueller investigation. matt whitaker refused to defend the mueller probe.ump's on going attacks on the probe. >> are you overseeing a witch hunt? >> as i've mentioned previously, the special counsel's investigation an ongoing investigation. so i think it would be inappropriate -- >> you wouldn't oversee a witch hunt, would you? would you stop a witch hunt? >> it would be inappropriate to talk about an ongoing investigation. >> except no one was asking him about the details of the investigation. they were asking him a really basic and important question given these attacks. it's a witch hunt and they know that. >> this is a pure and simple witch hunt. i've been saying it a long time. >> there's about 50 more where that came from.

the acting attorney general, the person in charge of the mueller investigation, refused to say it isn't a witch hunt. most republicans in washington have taken a clear stand against the witch hunt attacks. >> i wouldn't use the term witch hunt. >> it's not a witch hunt. >> well, whitaker wouldn't defend mueller's investigation and wouldn't say it is a witch hunt which is even more of a concern when you consider his public comments on the investigation, made before he oversaw it. >> this is not helping the administration. >> an effort by jim comey to have somebody. i think it smells a little fishy. >> still continue to wonder if there's any there, there. i have not seen a single fact.

>> laura is out front in washington. what else stood out to you in this hearing where whitaker wouldn't say whether mueller's probe is a witch hunt or not? >> really vacillating there. he really doubled down on his refusal to step down saying notwithstanding all of his past criticisms, the criticisms of the russia investigation, he's been fully briefed and he claims he hasn't really taken any action or interfered in any way with mueller's work. yet he repeatedly dodged questions about his conversation with the president except when he didn't. vowing that he never talked to president trump about the special counsel's investigation but admitted in the past, he wanted a job defending trump in the white house. he didn't shy away from getting into unfounded conspiracy theories about cnn's own reporting. we were there to capture arrest even though we did it through old-fashioned reporting. when pressed about the other major investigation looming over

this presidency, the one to president trump's own lawyer and fixer, he refused to shed any light what the president may or may not have discussed. >> all right. thank you. i want to go now to a member of the judiciary committee who was there today. i appreciate your time. what was your reaction? when whitaker refused to say it was not a witch hunt. >> an awful lot of things attorney general refused to speak with and deflected and delayed and stalled. it raefs baffled by all of that. i'm please that had we had the opportunity to have him in front of us. you saw in question after question the refusal to answer questions honestly and openly. i fried to focus on the question you just mentioned which was

reaccusal and we got very inconsistent answers. there were ethical questions raised. he contradicted himself. talk about his conversations with the president, right? sometimes he said, oh, they're privileged. it shouldn't have to answer questions. and other times, talking about them. >> and yet the committee was very thoughtful in preparing for today. sent the acting attorney general a whole host of questions so he would have the opportunity to work the administration to make sure that he was in the cleared answered questions. and he said today under oath, he never bothered to share those questions. so he cannot assume a possible privilege. he never talked to the administration, according to his own testimony. >> so do you think he was forthcoming? >> no. that was disappointing. he was not forthcoming. i focused on the area of

recusal. i said you actually had information from the ethics folks within the department to say should you recuse and then he contrast that had with four folks, teammates who said you'll be already. he said to us. i set the tone for this department. when he is given the choice, recuse yourself because of the past statements you've made, he chose to set the tone, i'll take conflict of interest and move forward. >> one of the other exchanges, one of the most bizarre moments, was another one with you when you asked him how he got the job of his life. he said this is great honor of his life. this is the most important jock he's ever had. you asked him, how did you find out you got the job?

i want to may the exchange. >> i can't remember which preceded which but i believe i received the call from the president of the united states asking me to be the acting attorney general. >> a moment ago you said you learned by tweet. did i misunderstand you? >> i think you did. >> so you learned first by a phone call from the president. >> i believe so. but they were very close in time. so as i sit here now, i can't remember which preceded which. >> so you can't remember whether the president is the one who called you? that's strange. >> i have recently earned the job of a lifetime and i remember exactly how it took place. it just stretches credulity. that he was either hired by tweet or he got a phone call from the president. >> i would remember the president hiring me for a job so that made no sense. >> aid chance to speak to the

attorney general after the conversation. would it be all right if i talk about that? >> yes, of course. some of my colleagues talked about the very pressing issue of the child separation policy. they called it zero tolerance as one of my colleagues called it, zero humanity. i had the opportunity to just walk back into the back offices of the judiciary committee and met with, i just spoke briefly with one of his counsel. then i introduced myself. i wanted to introduce myself to show that respect and i said it is your predecessor who put in place the separation of families at the border. you have five or six days. you've said it over and over again. you have five or six days to go. why not make your legacy ending this inhumane policy? >> what did he say? >> he thought it was interesting. >> well, we'll see what he does.

>> just to be clear, because he has been overseeing the mueller investigation. he has all the facts. do you think the acting attorney general has interfered in the investigation at all? >> i have no idea. what i find puzzling is the lack of forthrightness. that he was briefed on it. noted clarity as to whether the information he learned, and another one of his deputies, sitting in on that briefing was ever conveyed to the white house. that was so unclear. so i have no idea. that's why we're asking these questions. >> of course, that's what you would hope to get that idea in a hearing like this. but some really puzzling moments. >> thank you. next, the white house ignoring a deadline. a really important dead line from congress, right? the balance of powers. they were responsible for handing over a report saying who killed jamal khashoggi? they wouldn't do it, light. plus, the charges that the

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deadline. lindsey graham saying, i firmly believe there will be strong bipartisan support for serious sanctions against saudi arabia for this barbaric act which defied all civilized norms. we lose our moral voice and our strongest asset. the president of the united states thumbing his nose again at congress is that at his own intelligence chiefs who have made it clear, they know horrific khashoggi slaughter, and that is the right word was, personally directed by the crown prince of saudi arabia. >> i hate the crime. i hate what's done. i hate the cover-up. and i will tell you this. the crown prince hates it more than i do. they have vehemently denied it. >> in terms of not doing it, that's false. the president knows it is false. his cia confirmed that the prince personally directed the murder. but the cia does not put it out in the public eye but the reporters at the "washington

post" do. khashoggi worked for the "washington post" and the payment has been relentless on reporting of the murder. enter jeff bezos. the founder of amazon. the richest man in the world and the owner of the "washington post." trump routine lly slams him and the post. >> it is run by a big stake in amazon. you know his name. correct. bezos. you know his name. now, he use that's as a political weapon. >> he uses the "washington post" as his power tool. >> the "washington post," that's basically the lobbyist for amazon. he's got bigger problems than anybody. but he uses that as his lobbyist as far as i'm concerned. >> so it may be no quince against the "national enquirer" breaks the story about jeff bezos having an affair.

a story that trump quickly celebrates. so story to hear the news about jeff bozo being taken down, whose reporting is far more accurate than in his newspaper, the amazon "washington post" lt here's where saudi arabia comes back in. last night bezos posted for the world to see how the "national enquirer" threatened to publish hacked members. they will wrongly conclude i am their end me. president trump is one of those people, obvious by his many tweets. the post, essential and unreelementing columnist by jamal khashoggi is undoubtly unpopular in certain circles. like that one, president trump, who has posted the prince at the white house. who took his first overseas to -- saudi arabia.

all this begging the question of who hacked those salacious pictures of bezos with the intent of hurting him? who gave it to the "national enquirer"? could it have been saudi arabia? the answer was, i doubt it. kaitlyn collins is at the white house. this is a pretty stunning development that we're seeing. what is the white house saying about why today? this excuse, this dead line. >> this is a legal mandate from senators who gave the dead line of today saying whether or not they feel the saudi crown prince who you just showed. in video in the oval office is responsible for the death of this columnist. they didn't do so and they're refusing to do it. going on to stay president maintains his expression to decline to act on congressional requests when appropriate. now of course this is coming one

day after the explosive "new york times" report that said that the saudi crown prince was quoted saying in 2017 on an aid that he had a bullet for jamal khashoggi and this comes as the white house is saying, they're going to continue on investigate this and that statement that they gave us when we asked, why they had failed to submit this to conscience. they said they update regularly on the status of the acts related to the killing of jamal khashoggi. i don't need to remind but it has been over four months since he was killed in the saudi consulate in turkey is that the white house says they're continuing to investigate that. we know the secretary of state mike pompeo the send a letter today, not really offering a ton of information. what this is likely to do with this dead shine to infuriate not just democrats but republicans too, who don't think the white house has done enough to held to saudis accountable for this

death. juliet, let me start with you. do you have any doubt, as i laid that out, that the bezos story that appears in the "national enquirer" and all these threats, is this payback for the washingt washington? >> absolutely. i think bezos left a bunch of hints. in letter. he has remarkable investigators looking into how his phone and his new girlfriend's phone were hacked. how the pictures were hacked. so there is no question in my mind that bezos would drop those clues without having some sense of who was responsible for taking and getting that from his phone. so one way to think of it. it has reached a repository and they get information from all sorts of sword it sources, the

former porn star, the saudis, whoever else, and they are working to support donald trump. so we've known that and that is essentially the world that the saudis walked into. they have this information against bezos. trump hates him and it is a perfect alliance of really corrupt nations and a really corrupt white house going after a man who, not going to defend him, but he made a mistake. that's what we see happening right now. >> it is pretty stunning when you think about it. a sitting president who at least, according the jeff bezos, he continued in that online post to say for reasons to be better understood, it seems to hit a particularly sensitive nerve. he is clearly leading bread crumbs to saudi arabia. you're talking about a foreign government. not russia, saudi arabia, actively trying to help the president of the united states.

>> well, i think she is absolutely right. that bezos was leaving bread crumbs for to us follow. and other organizations in the press to figure out who did it and whether or not it is the saudis. i think it is also, i think she's that's right the saudis had a strong interest in bringing down bezos in order to protect themselves. but i think we ought to be a little careful. this sounds like a conspiracy theory. we know what it would look like have the a great story but we don't have the facts. i think, by the way, one other payback was "the new york times" story that came out yesterday.

that was leaked the day before. it really brought the case back front and center. >> saying he wanted to put a bullet into jamal khashoggi. >> yeah. they've known that for a while. but somehow it imaginally appeared the day before the deadline. i think that was intentional. the intelligence xhumt doesn't have a high regard for this president. >> no. certainly not. when you look at the bread crumbs, it is quite fascinating, right? saudi arabia is where the president took his first foreign trip. that was unusual. got a lot of coverage. he chose saudi arabia. he has continued to publicly take the side against his own intelligence chief's conclusion when it came to the murder of jamal khashoggi. pretty blunt, right? he has refused to do that again and again. >> and this does remind us of the russia story. you have an intelligence community saying this is an

enemy. in the russia case, in the saudi arabia case saying they killed khashoggi. premeditated murder. you have the president ignoring it and the common theme is of course, the economic interests of not the united states. we can more easily live without saudi arabia than they can live without us. of the trump organization. and what is interesting, and we can't talk about these stories without mentioning jared kushner who always ends up being the main player in both of these cases. his alliances around the russian meetings or his relationship with the crown prince. one final thing. i get had a david is saying about not putting the pieces together too soon. i think one of the problems is that the president's failure to respond back to republicans and democrats in the senate on khashoggi, either sessions that

he knows he's blig the intelligence community or that he can't get anyone to sign the document. there's one who has to document what the white house is saying and you are not going to get the director of the cia to say, oh, we don't know anything more. she has made it clear how she feels. so i wonder about these press releases, and the secretary of state writing a letter, because they cannot get anyone to validate the trump's theory of the case, which is, you know, he wants to protect his own economic interests. >> i don't think there's any question. there is no question that if the president goes in, if he does respond to this 120-day deadline and i think the administration has to respond under his name, that he will have a real problem. he will want to say things the cia does not believe. the only way to send a true

report up is to have the intelligence community sign off on it. that's his problem and why he hasn't met the deadline. >> why would you go against your own chiefs? why would you? it doesn't make any sense at all as to why that would happen. all right. thank you both so very much. next, federal prosecutors are now investigating. a second woman coming forward accusing the lieutenant governor of sexual assault. now there's articles of impeachment being drafted for him. the governor next to him on the screen still in place. that's ahead.

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the company agreed but they may have violated the deal because of the whole jeff bezos debacle. out front now, thanks to all of you. john, you're usually out there in l.a. but you're here now. let me start with you. how bad is this for david pecker? >> i think it is bad. it's not crystal clear that he's violated state law but certainly prima facie that he has. if he has, his immunity deal falls apart. if he violated it, he could go to jail. >> absolutely. the first risk is that he is going to be prosecuted, conceivably, or be investigated for the blackmail crime.

the second risk is that he and others at ami have already admitted to the campaign finance violations that michael cohen was convicted of and they were going to not be prosecuted under this agreement. the agreement can be torn up and they can be prosecuted. >> it is pretty stunning. the president has made it very clear his views on jeff bezos and the "washington post." after the bezos news broke, the president couldn't contain his excitement. i shared the tweet, so sorry to hear about jeff bezos. i understand. and then happy to jump in on camera and talk about jeff bezos who of course is going through a divorce, partly as a result of all this coming out. here's the president. >> what's your reaction? >> his divorce is fair? >> well, i wish him luck.

it will be a beauty. >> with a smile co-barely contain. what do you make of that? >> at one point you told us president trump was a silent editor of the "national enquirer." do you think he knew anything about this in advance? >> well, this whole bunch of guys brings to mind the old movie, the gang that couldn't shoot straight. the president can't keep his mouth shut, gloating over this bezos story. the story that brought, you know, david pecker and dylan howard back under the scrutiny of, you know, prosecutors. and then they came out with this incredible salacious story on bezos' divorce which was basically written for an audience of one.

bezos isn't an enquirer name. so everywhere they turn they make a misstep. supposedly he's been cooperating. one would think as part of. supposedly, one would think he would not be coordinating with the president of the united states of the united states on something like this. he could have been doing it without him coordinating with him. >> this could be a miss the way to get book is the good graces of the president. he seems terribly attracted on this man so that would explain it. i don't think he anticipated bezos doing what he had done. >> right. all the embarrassing, humiliating disgusting tacts. we'll see.

the "national enquirer" has always done things for trump will not just catch and kill, a story about a woman, not just that sort of they know but also, taking on people trump wants to crush. what about hillary clinton? remember when she had six months to live? that was during the campaign. three years later now. then she wouldn't make it to election day. guess what, she's still alive. and these are just a few. it is very cheer, these are all people trump wants to take down. people have said, this is not journalism. it is extortion potentially. political activity. it is weaponizing the first

amendment to use for the been fit of trump and his circle is that that won't be protected in the same way that a real first amendment news gathering would be protected. >> you have here a board going to investigate this. one of the people on the board investigating is david pecker. the other we understand is someone who has ties, or works for trump international, trump hotel and casino. >> tip qula a board does, they put together an independent unit. or they bring this outside counsel and they do a legitimate investigation. this is not that. this is an examination that will ensure that it comes out all right.

>> so how does this behind. >> it is looking less like journalism and more like organized crime. and you think pecker will do what? go as a result of this? >> i think there's a very strong chance that david pecker may end up doing time. >> wow! what is your take on that? possible? >> i think it is possible. i think there is a real risk to the institution, the newspaper if it faces indictment. they may have debt could have nanlts, agreements with investors. an indictment of a corporation is usual lay death sentence. >> pretty incredible. never mind that you have jeff bezos' own investigators looking and dangling all those things out there. thank you. next, breaking news, the lieutenant governor from virginia being told to step down or face impeachment. a second woman is accusing him with sexual assault. and the indiana mayor hoping the

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e-mail exchange that meredith watson had with another classmate that mentions this assault. the e-mail was inviting her to a duke alumni fund-raiser for justin fairfax in october 2016. her response to the invitation was, quote, he raped me in college and i don't want to hear anything more about him. please, please, please remove me from any future e-mails about him. please and thank you. so the number of democrats lining up and calling for the resignation is long from 2020 contenders to members of the u.s. house of representatives who issued a letter saying they believe dr. tyson and what watson is saying gives further credence to it all. you mentioned, the drafted articles of impeachment by one member of the house of delegates, that he says he will bring forth on monday if fairfax doesn't resign before then. >> thank you very much. i want to go now to strategist keith boykin, this is a debacle,

an embarrassment. i want to go through this on a couple levels. first of all, fairfax. it seems at this point he's a goner. am i right? >> it is hook very difficult to see how he gets out of this mess right now. the two credible witnesses have come out against him. >> the e-mail is incredibly damning. he raped me. >> i said this about cavanagh about, other cases. i believe this should be a due process investigation. it is looking harder to wait for investigation when there are more people coming out. i still believe there should be an investigation. if did he this, he should resign. he's not herself himself or anyone in office. >> it seems like somebody who thinks they can benefit there this is ralph northam, still governor of virginia. you called for his resignation, as has been everybody else. he just told his cabinet he has

no intention to resign. you have a black alone governor while the white governor who has admitted doing these racist things as a full grown cult and handled it terribly could possibly keep his job? >> it is sending a message that we don't consider racial violence, which is what it is when you have a klans outfit or a blackface that you're proudly putting on your year book page. that racism is not as offensive as sexual assault or that racial violence is not as bad. these are all bad things that need to be taken seriously. northam needs to step down. herring needs to step down. >> the attorney general. >> yes. it doesn't seem like there is any justification as long as he has this standard out there as well. there is a possibility in the future, democrats don't have to give the government to the republicans. there could be staggered

resignations. i was just talking to a political scientist about that possibility. where one person resigns. another personal appoints someone squeaky clean to fill that position. >> that would require people stepping up to take responsibility. fairfax leaves. northam says he has no intention to resign. thank you very much. next, the youngest 2020 candidate who could be the first openly gay candidate and an exclusive look inside facebook. there is a bit of a "game of thrones" culture among executives. okay, max...time to help mrs. tyler

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he ran for mayor at 29 in a place "newsweek" labeled a dying city. he won and he's on a second term. but is america ready for a little known mayor who would be the youngest president yet? >> it's a fair question. i think we have a pretty good answer. the question of age was resolved by the founders in the constitution. the question of experience i think is actually one of the most important questions that i want to answer. the background of a mayor is the background of somebody who on one hand is an executive and on the other hand is very close to the ground. i don't have to go on a tour to find out what's happening in middle america, i just go to target. this thing, i was getting ready to blow that up. it was vacant, it was in receivership, it was in miserable condition. >> reporter: south bend, like much of the industrial midwest, saw a boom and bust around manufacturing. >> there you go. >> reporter: here the most powerful symbol of that is the

studebaker auto plant, shuttered and sitting vacant since the 1960s. and now. >> there's a code school here. they teach coding. super cool. we were honest about the fact that nothing ever resembling, for example, the studebaker car company was ever going to come back to this city. that wasn't coming back, but we were. >> reporter: buttigieg says that is exactly the message of change democrats need for 2020. >> if we look like we're the protectors of the old order, if we look like we're here to restore normalcy, whatever that means, in a way we're committing the same sin of the trump campaign, which is to tell people to look for greatness in the wrong places. >> reporter: another major change in the race for the white house that the mayor brings, he would be the first gay president if he won. we sat down for the first interview with his husband by his side, married just eight months ago. >> when did you realize that pete was the one? >> it was pretty early in our relationship. i'd say six, seven months in.

i wanted to spend every day with peter. >> is he peter or is it he pete? >> mostly peter to me. depends on the situation we're in. peter paul if he hasn't done the dishes. >> you represent a historic first in your candidacy. how much do you want it to define the campaign? >> being gay is part of who i am. i'm aware of what it represents to be that kind of first. first elected official to try to do this who's out. ultimately i want to be evaluated based on the ideas that i bring to the table. it's kind of like being mayor. if i'm plowing the snow and filling in potholes, i'm a good mayor. if i fail to do that, i'm not. it's got nothing to do with whether i come home it's to a husband or to a wife. >> reporter: now, i asked him how he'd handle any attacks coming from president trump. when it comes to the president he was pretty blunt. he said i'm a gay man from indiana. i know how to deal with a bully. how does he think he stacks up

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facebook just turned 15. it's a company at the center of hundreds of millions of people's lives and central to american politics, including a big role in the russia investigation. here's a clip from lori siegel's documentary. >> there is a bit of a "game of tloe thrones" culture among the executive the. if you keep the same people in the same places, it's just very difficult to admit you were wrong. >> and lori is with me. that's a big part of what they have been facing is admitting they were wrong and mistakes that were made. i want to start with mark

zuckerberg. you have met with him, interviewed him many, many times. is he worried that facebook could go the way of losing relevance, right, as younger people choose other platforms? is that a fundamental fear for them? >> fundamental fear of silicon valley, battle for time and relevance. look, facebook made some very wise decisions. he went out and bought instagram and whatsapp years ago. now these are the platforms of the future and facebook owns them. i think that's a big deal. despite all the controversy, all the issues with privacy, facebook's numbers came in just in the last weeks and the company is doing incredibly well. they actually added daily users in europe and north america. i mean, so, you know, this narrative around facebook is interesting and it's important. there are a lot of these larger fundamental questions about the platform. but i do think we're going to look in the next couple of years and things could change if they do the right things and we see the right type of regulations.

>> "game of thrones" is what we just heard there. you think of facebook and you think of mark zuckerberg and sheryl sandberg. but when you hear "game of thrones" what does that mean? is something getting killed off? obviously i'm using the "game of thrones" parlance here. >> mark zuckerberg is the dna of facebook. you talk to folks behind the scenes, he's so incredibly involved in the product. now, there were reports that came out in november questioning sheryl sandberg's leadership. i sat down with mark and he defended sheryl sandberg, said she hasn't going anywhere. i don't think mark zuckerberg will be going anywhere. i think the one maybe to look out for in the next year is there have been rumors about sheryl sandberg having political aspirations. but the complaint from doing this documentary and listening to what people have had to say is that there is that very tight-knit group of people at the top. can facebook burst its own filter bubble to understand some of these larger issues. >> all right. well, thank you very much. and you've got to see it. no one knows this company, has had more access that laurie and

her "facebook at 15" premieres sunday at 9:00 eastern. thank you for joining us. have a great weekend. just go to cnn go to watch us. anderson starts now. good evening. a very busy night including a new and serious allegation against one of the top three virginia democratic elected officials, all of whom are facing pressure to step down. also major new developments in the strange and sleazy case of alleged blackmail and extortion of jeff bezos, america's wealthiest man, by the publisher of "the national enquirer" a long-time ally of the president. we begin keeping them honest with the democrats first big televised hearing in what's expected to be a parade of them as they look into all corners of the trump presidency. acting attorney general matthew whitaker today going before the house judiciary committee. he confirmed he's been fully briefed on the russia investigation. he denied ever talking to president trump about it or in any way interfering with the probe. that said, no one