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Acting AG overseeing

Mueller probe says

he’s not interfered

By ERIC TUCKER and MARY the Republican president.
CLARE JALONICK They confronted Whitaker
Associated Press on his past criticism of spe-
WASHINGTON (AP) — Act- cial counsel Robert Muel-
ing Attorney General Mat- ler’s work and his refusal to
thew Whitaker said on recuse himself from over-
Friday that he has “not in- seeing it, attacked him
terfered in any way” in the over his prior business deal-
special counsel’s Russia in- ings and sneeringly chal-
vestigation as he faced a lenged his credentials as
contentious and partisan the country’s chief law en-
congressional hearing in his forcement officer.
waning days on the job. “We’re all trying to figure
The hearing before the out: Who are you, where
House Judiciary Commit- did you come from and
tee was the first, and likely how the heck did you be-
only, chance for newly em- come the head of the De-
powered Democrats in the partment of Justice,” said
majority to grill an attorney Rep. Hakeem Jeffries.
general they perceive as a When Whitaker tried to re-
Donald Trump loyalist and spond, the New York Dem-
whose appointment they ocrat interrupted, Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker is sworn in before the House Judiciary Committee
suspect was aimed at sup- on Capitol Hill, Friday, Feb. 8, 2019 in Washington.
pressing investigations of Continued on Page 3 Associated Press