assurances from the white house and from the white house legal team that there was no plan in place to fire robert mueller but because of new reporting from the new york times that cnn has confirmed, democrats are making this push again. one democrat aid told me it would actually be something they would bring up in a proposal during budget talks later this week. i did get a chance to speak to one republican operative who told me it was not likely that republicans would take this up in part because it reveals a split within the republican party itself. these two bills both have republican cosponsors, lindsey graham and tom tillis. but mitch mcconnell has said this isn't a priority for the senate. it will be interesting to see how far democrats can get with this. they cannot pass anything without republican support. >> all right. thank you. we now know robert mueller is looking into obstruction of