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Strategy before. >> how do the career employees feel about this? >> they have known if this did not go to rod rosenstein after the firing of sessions, if he was not put in that acting position, that would spell a number of problems for the mueller investigation and really sour the justice department especially when they see that their boss, the president, is making that kind of decision. it would have the appearance of an ethics conflict. it's on whittaker himself to go to those ethics consultants. he could go to those inside the doj or office of government ethics. it's incumbent upon him to d...

Close attention to this and we'll need more reporting on what has he been doing behind the scenes preparing for this very day. it's also such remarkable timing. the president is at such a precarious moment when he hasn't even submitted his questions on the question of collusion. we've been waiting to see when he will do that, what he will say. for him to make this move now is quite telling. >> you know mueller, you know how he operates and how he thinks. he's watching this oh, so closely. >> forget about press conferences, i see a couple of scenarios. scenario one and let med focus on this one...

Well, that he didn't want this at this time, it would be hard to get somebody confirmed in this kind of environment to take that place. as we know, the number three right now is in an acting position. so you would have to fall way down the totem pole to the solicitor general. you would really have a justice department weakened at the knees if he decided to fire these people overnight. >> well, the president's son -- speaking of him, donald trump jr., is already fanning the flames today after this report came out, tweeting, shocked, absolutely shocked! who are we kidding at this point? no one i...

Kind of environment the take that place. as we know, the number three right now is in an acting position. so you would have to fall way down the totem pole to the solicitor general. you would really have a justice department weakened at the knees if he decided to fire these people overnight. >> well, the president's son speaking of him, donald trump jr., is already fanning the flames today after this report came out, tweeting, shocked, absolutely shocked! who are we kidding at this point? no one is shocked that these guys would do anything in their power to undermine donald trump. he is talkin...

Acting position, shouldn't go forward with any policy decisions until we get a full sense of corruption within the agency. he's part of that problem right now until he steps out and says that he's not going to really carry out all the problems and scandals that we saw with administrator pruitt. >> lock lan i'm amazed that the white house sort of gets through the day, given what i've heard about, how it operates, and the processes that's not in place to make the place function smoothly. >> i'm not sure the place does function notally. that's kind of a constant indeference of the man with the to...