independent law enforcement. and that tradition does come under pressure all the time, but it doesn't break. we tend to find out when presidents do that, and they tend to get in trouble for it. they at least tend to get caught. so there are a few ways in which this sort of untenable situation with matthew whitaker is going to end at the justice department. one of them is the long, slow painful which, which is that they're going to leave him in there as long they can, and he will manage whatever wrecking ball routine he can in there when it comes to the russia investigation. but, you know, thereafter, very soon thereafter, the democrats will take control of congress, in just a few weeks. and then they will unspool and unravel all of that, and they will hold people to account for whatever happened in the interim. so that's the long, slow painful way this could happen. the less long way, right, is that the white house could recognize that the long, slow painful way would actually be a