has squultd ethics adviser to ask whether he should recuse himself from this investigation in part because of the questions about this memo he had written that was connected in part parth to comey's firing. apparently he's been taking the advice of these doj ethics advisers. does that give him hardware legitimacy, and would it quiet the critics, especially republicans who've been saying maybe he's conflicted in some way? >> absolutely. he is genuinely taking the advice of an independent ethics adviser at the justice department and abiding by those recommendations. that gives him a very clear way of saying i should not recuse myself because the ethics advisers told me not to. the reason this has come up is because he famously wrote a very extensive, very critical memo of james comey, the fbi director, and advised the president to