Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20170302:10:07:00
Hammering this young administration about. let me ask you this, laura. if sessions cannot oversee a russia probe, who makes decisions on that and what is the timeline for appointing a special prosecutor if it comes to that? >> reporter: the situation is if sessions decides to step aside. the deputy attorney general could step in. dana benta. the special prosecutor issue is really interesting because there used to be a statute on the books to provide for an easy mechanism to do this. that lapsed in the 1990s after president clinton. ironically, the very person to appoint a special prosecutor is...