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I'm glad he thinks he knows about my finances, but it's interesting. i'm proud to work for cnn. i have been working in this business for 21 years. they just take note because i'm now at cnn. it was a coincident that i came to cnn when i did. >> april, no one should face that kind of language, and you're damn good at your job. let's just say that for folks listening here. i want to go to shimon prokupecz because you were watching the words closely, i'm sure, and within a day or two of appointing a new acting attorney general, the president, and i went back and counted, was more than half a doze...

Whitaker impact the investigation here? >> well, whitaker has the authority to ask mueller to provide an explanation and justification for investigative steps he takes. and then, in certain circumstances, if he thinks that mueller is straying too far afield, going outside the bounds of justice department guidelines, he could overrule mueller. so you could imagine if whitaker really had in his mind that he wanted to impede mueller, he could start asking him to justify everything he does. because prosecutors exercise judgment and discretion, and they often make a whole bunch of investigative ste...

>> let me read more of the story. this jumps out. a first day law stay tuned would understand jeff sessions had to recuse himself. he was so active in the campaign and he had a meeting and the big questions were about the campaign, any possible collusion with russia. even though the president was critical, a first day law student would say that's what jeff sessions has to do. they are likely to review whitaker's past work to see if he has financial or personal confli conflicts. they do not require him to recuse, but suggest a course of action. the op ed pieces he has written criticizing muelle...

Worried about whether or not this man would be curtailing us in some way. >> and the working assumption is that the investigation is somewhat nearing its end. how could mueller get around any undue influence on his investigation at this point? some folks are saying he probably was thinking this could be -- this could be coming. at some point. are there sealed indictments out there? what would that mean? >> well, if there were sealed indictments, though decisions had already been made. presumably, he already asked rod rosenstein for permission and already obtained those indictments. one way he ...

Opinion pieces about the president's complaints about the special counsel investigation. on this show a year ago, he questioned the scope. >> it would be a fishing expedition if they started looking into all of trump's finances. we can't have prosecutors turning over every rock unrelated to any nexus to the underlying issues which is the russian coordination and the 2016 election. >> cnn's laura jarrett is at the justice department. what does this mean for the russia investigation. >> whitaker has not shied away from criticizing mueller's work, but the big question is whether he will actually ...