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>> so we've heard trump's personal attorney rudy giuliani saying that they're almost ready perhaps with written comments for questions to commit to, something they may have had the question submitted even earlier in the summer. but in terms of sessions being gone, how does this affect the mueller probe? >> well, the worry about the acting a.g. is that he's not independent in the way that you would want an attorney general to be. he's made statements like the one that we began this segment with that suggest he's already made up his mind about the russia probe. that suggests he's got a conflict....

The special counsel. what is the investigation's future look like if, in fact, a sitdown with the president and bob mueller happens or does not happen? >> we've been hearing from rudy giuliani and other trump lawyers that they were going to sit down with mueller for months. so it kind of feels like deja vu. they've been trying to string mueller along for a long time. i think mueller has to decide whether he wants to get played like this or whether he has to move to subpoena and basically give the president one last opportunity or he's going to court to try to force his testimony. and with matt...

Envision with congress being controlled by the republicans. but post january when you have a democratic house and a republican senate, can anything be done? . i think there is. there's a protect mueller bill that's been voted out with bipartisan support out of the senate judiciary committee. that would guarantee that mueller could not be fired even by the acting a.g. without cause, without good cause. so a purely political reason wouldn't be a reason to bring the matter to court and we'd have an external branch checking the presidency and the a.g. >> that would have to be signed by the preside...

Trump's decision to name whittaker as acting a.g. is unconstitutional. the two say that a principal officer must be confirmed by the senate. katyal will be on "morning joe." the lawmakers likely to head the house intel committee is suggesting that democrats are in fact interested in hearing from jeff sessions about his forced resignation. congressman adam schiff raised the possibility of sessions testifying on that matter. he says on this particular question of what led up to his firing or what information he may have have of obstruction of justice will be of interest to not only our committ...

New fallout in the firing of attorney general jeff sessions. his replacement, acting a.g. mark whitaker, is said to have no plans to recuse himself from special counsel robert mueller's investigation. and "the washington post" takes it a step further saying whitaker would also reject any potential subpoena of president trump. democrats are now scrambling to protect this mueller probe in fear that the president is now somehow trying to stonewall any of mueller's findings. whitaker has been highly critical of mueller before being named session's chief of staff last year. he was a legal commentat...