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Something completely unrelated. matt whitaker, a vocal critic of the robert mueller probe, now the acting a.g. he got the interim nod over rosenstein. the white house says that kept the department leadership in tract and the russia probe is one portion of whitaker's new job. >> we're also there to represent the united states in all of the different court cases. so we're dealing with immigration and health care. matt whitaker is being briefed on a variety of topics, including mueller investigation. that's a very smart part of what the department of justice is doing. >> sessions, by the way, isn...

Bottle. it's done! authorities in new york are doing it. his finances are on the table. the house committee's chairmanship is changing. there is no way he can can stop that investigation at this point. >> you mentioned the sdny piece of it, these other agencies are all sort of tied together but separate. can whittaker do anything to curtail those? >> what concerns me is that now he will know about those. a lot of that information comes to the grand jury process, which means it's secret under the federal secrecy rules. he cannot share that with the white house, what he learns. there's all kinds...

And the new guy will take over instantly all of the work at the justice department, including taking control of the mueller investigation, taking control of the mueller investigation away from rod rosenstein. putting it instead in the hands of this trump loyalist. if the justice department's announcements are to be believed on their face, as of right now, rod rosenstein no longer oversees the robert mueller investigation. this guy, who trump just installed on his own say-so, right at the top, as the acting a.g., matt whitaker, robert mueller reports to him. which means robert mueller's budget ...

Timing, but we knew it was going to happen. the question is, does this unravel the mueller investigation, and how quickly does whitaker come in as acting a.g. and start cutting the budget for it or start disproving requests, for example, that he may have -- mueller may have for subpoenas. we just don't know. >> there's a lot of potential there and sessions' undated resignation letter, he wrote the first words, at your request, i am submitting my resignation. this is a letter to the president of the united states. doesn't tell us much art the timing, though, because there's no date on that lett...

House, donald trump did great in the senate. all those senators owe their allegiance to donald trump. even the pretend moderates, the jeff flags, the bob corders. donald trump can do anything he wants through whitaker. he can fire mueller, limit the budget, he can prohibit some of the investigations. this, he has a free hand and he has the ability to use it if he wants. >> i think that's a bit of an overstatement in part because the democrats seized upon the house. they've made clear they intend to investigate this as soon as they have the gavel. i think that's a sign to anyone in the justice ...