attorney general has the power to fire him, but he also has the power to restrict the investigation, limit his budget, reject indictments, reject requests for travel and investigative options for mueller's office. that's -- that's what he's advocated in the past. that, it appears, is the reason the president named him in the first place. and, you know, the checks that you and laura were talking about, they're not really big checks. all they are -- >> they make up the senate. >> because they are simply requirements to testify and explain to congress. >> but no teeth. >> yeah. congress can't really do anything about it except impeach him or impeach the president, which they're not going to do. >> look, you said when this news broke yesterday, this is a president in charge of the mueller investigation. the president is going to do nothing about it. but i kept asking myself, jeffrey, what about senators