for attorney general was one of the worst decisions he had made. "the new york times" michael submit and maggie haberman ahave the by line on this. i mean, this is quite -- i mean, it's kind of unbelievable reading this piece. we'll get to the humiliation part of this in a second, but you write that the president said the attorney general should resign which is basically the last option short of firing him. why is sessions still the attorney general? >> sure. i mean, it's as you say it's an important point it's the last option before firing him because as we know the president doesn't actually really like firing people. what happened was this was a may meeting in the oval office. they were interviewing or discussing potential candidates to replace james comey who the president had fired days earlier. while they were in the middle of this meeting there was a phone call from the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein saying that he had named robert mueller as a special counsel. the meeting in the oval office then resumed with this news and the president unloaded his anger