compartmentalize. it was a well run shot at that point. we weren't at the early stages like president trump is where you're going to have a lot of bumping. there were very few people -- i was one of them -- assigned to impeachment. everybody else had to do their job. if you talked about it in a meeting, you were punished, you were chastised. people stayed in their lanes. we call it the parallel universe. if you were not part of the parallel universe -- >> doesn't seem there's a lot of lanes. we have to take a break. we are continuing -- we're going to continue to bring all the latest tonight. let's go to pamela brown for the latest on this story. pamela? >> the latest is that rod rosenstein, the deputy attorney general wanted to make sure he didn't give a warning to the white house and to the attorney general jeff sessions about this decision to appoint bob mueller as special counsel. in fact, the white house was basically blind sided by this, only finding out half an hour before the announcement and