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Firing of jeff sessions and his pick of matthew whitaker as acting a.g., the man overseeing the mueller investigation. now president trump is playing games, trying to backtrack claiming he doesn't know whitaker even though it was the white house that urged sessions to take him on as chief of staff in the first place. and even though the president said himself just last month that he knows whitaker. >> well, matt whitaker, i don't know matt whitaker. matt whitaker worked for jeff sessions, and he was always extremely highly thought of, and he still is, but i didn't know matt whitaker. i didn't ...

Over 20,000 votes. i have said this before. president trump must be really, really rattled tonight. the blue wave in the midterms is actually bigger than it looked on election night. house democrats have picked up 30 seats, and out of ten house races, not yet called by cnn, the democratic candidates, their leads in five. democratic candidates lead in five, and if those numbers hold up, democrats will get a 35-seat pickup, and the bigger the blue wave, the more rattled the president, but he's got plenty more good reasons to be rattled, okay? there's the firestorm over his firing of jeff session...

Institutional. if he were to defy an order that whitaker gave him or shot down, that could start the process whereby a court would begin to look at wlihitaker's authority d whether or not he is mueller's rightful boss. we don't know how long mueller will be in this position. we'll have to wait and see. >> daniel, the president appoints an acting a.g. and then distances himself from that acting a.g. i don't get it. >> a lot of people in washington are saying if trump appointed this guy and then later said he doesn't know who he is, the a.g. position is one of the most powerful in the cabinet an...

And say i'm your boss, you need to brief me on everything and where you're at and then can he go right back to the white house and fill in them on everything that special counsel mueller knows this that would be quite problematic. what about documents that exist right now that could possibly be eliminated or destroyed in this interim process that's why you see democratic lawmakers in both chambers of congress writing to the administration saying don't get rid of any documents, put everything on hold, protect the investigation while we continue to fight this out. >> we look at this week with so...

May. it is my sincere hope that the president is not trying to stack the deck to stop that investigation. it would not be good for him and not good for our country. >> if he was going to stop this investigation, he could have done it long ago. why, when we know that he's getting ready to wrap it up, why would the president do it now? why not have stopped it long ago? >> the question, with matt whitaker being put in place -- >> we don't have any information that he's even doing anything to insert himself into it. >> no, no. people are just looking at his past statements, which could not be more...