general. in this case, the acting attorney general who's supervising the mueller investigation. we do know that the white house is preparing an argument, if you will, for why rod rosenstein should be recused. why he should not be in charge of this investigation. they say he is conflicted in this. he could be a witness in this. so a couple things are happening. one, a lot of outside voices from the president's informal advisers like sean hannity on fox, like newt gingrich, like other people on the outside are telling the president, get rid of rosenstein. inside we know they are preparing the argument for it to happen. what we don't know is is the president going to do it? there are many many, many, many drawbacks. and even if he does, that does not end this investigation here and it could enrage capitol hill. so all this is going on as the president also is deciding what to do in syria here. i would be surprised based on our reporting if anything happens with rod rosenstein this week. don, again, the president makes