effort to further weaken attorney general jeff sessions' position. that's certainly one possibility. the timing of it is interesting. but we have really nothing but speculation that that is the case. >> i want to move on real quickly here to something else that's in "the post" in the last 24 hours here, about special counsel mueller and his investigation, because you just referred to this, richard. the president has asked, according to the post, what his pardoning powers are, asking about pardoning powers for his ai aides, for his family, for himself. and we had sol reaction on that from representative ruben guyago late last night. listen to what he said. >> i have not been as quickly to call for impeachment, but if you're going to start issuing pardons to basically obstruct justice and cover up whatever is being covered up, i think clearly the only solution we