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Here. he's not a senate-confirmed nominee as the head of the justice department. any decision he makes as an acting attorney general without being senate confirmed comes into question. if you had a senate and a house that, and you will have a house that wants to be engaged on this, you'll have hearings on this, whether it's constitutional, whether it's legal. you'll have people in the justice department who may say, i -- why should i follow the order of someone who is not senate confirmed as the head of my agency? >> and the question of the constitutionality of whitaker's installation will be ...

And the senate. they didn't go into full recess, they went into a pro forma recess to prevent him from making a recess appointment so their allie, jeff sessions, could come back to the senate. that's pretty serious. >> that means they will be taking very considerably, whatever mueller brings them and you don't want to tick off the united states senate within they may have to look at some criminal charges on impeachment. >> basically, if he were to fire jeff session, he couldn't replace somebody while the senate was out on recess, without having to go through a confirmation. is the senate tryin...

On that. his reporting starts us off. all right, josh, what are you learning? >> so we reported tonight that president trump on at least two occasions in the past month has asked his lawyers about the wisdom of firing jeff sessions, his attorney general, and suggested that he wanted to fire jeff session. obviously his opprobrium and frustrations with sessions are wide. he has taunted him on twitter and made fun of him in interviews. sessions has fought back. five senators recently made a remarkable trip to the doa to convince jeff sessions to stay. >> let me make sure i get this straight. he i...

Firing him. this follows reporting on friday from cnn's jim acosta, and there is new urgency now because of what senator lindsey graham said about sessions earlier today. >> and i supported jeff from the very beginning. he is -- he has always been a friend. it's not about the lack of friendship. it's just that i see a relationship that seems to be deteriorating by the minute, and we need an attorney general that has the confidence of the president. and if that can be repaired in this relationship,fine. but again, i don't see that happening. >> senate majority leader mitch mcconnell also weighe...