sessions resigned in terms of recused himself from the russia probe. so rosenstein has been overseeing it. the solicitor general would step in temporarily to oversee that part, but there's something very important here, and that is the federal vacancies act. that would then, if this all goes through, if the president does fire rosenstein, this would allow the president to pick anyone he wants, anyone who has a senate confirmed position, to be deputy attorney general. right? >> that's exactly right. so it isn't the case that the president just has to accept whatever the justice department has all worked out here in a neat solution. we may not see that come to fruition either. but as we know right now, i haven't checked my phone in the last few seconds, but at least as we understand right now, the current plan. the president could blow up all that and decide he wants someone else entirely. we saw this with mick mulvaney, with shulkin. there are a lot of different moves and the president has quite a bit of power to put in