department, whether the ethics people at the justice department tell him that because of some of the writings, i think laura jarrett made mention of some of the things he had previously written here at cnn, whether that requires him to recuse himself and the president has the same recusal problem all over again. one of the things in the next couple of days we're going to be watching for is whether the ethics officials at the justice department tell matt whitaker that because of his previous comments, including last year on don lemon's show he made comments about how an acting attorney general could come in and essentially reduce the budget for the mueller investigation as a way to starve it up of of the resources and i way make it shut down. those are the comments matt whitaker has made previously, he made them here on cnn and now those comments are going to come into play for the ethics officers at the justice department as they review whether he can indeed oversee the mueller investigation.