number of breaking stories today. let's start with the president expressing confidence in his e.p.a. chief scott pruitt and despite the ever growing list of controversy surrounding his cabinet official, he even floated replacing sessions with pruitt this week. what do you know about that? >> don, certainly a number of devel developments here today. but as for scott pruitt, we do know the president has been thinking about this for several weeks we know that jeff sessions, attorney general, is the most, you know, the biggest member of the cabinet with a target on his back. he is furious for him for more than a year. one way around confirming a new attorney general is to appoint an acting attorney general. the only person who can be appointed as an acting attorney general is someone who has been confirmed by the senate already.