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Legally authorized to issue surveillance warrants in these international espionage cases that where the nsa desperately wants to obtain these warrants, these fisa warrants. she was the only one authorized to do it. there will be no one in there now for how many days it takes to get a new attorney general in there. >> they're telling us, again, this is another weird thing about this administration, they're telling us dana boente has been sworn in as acting attorney general, telling us he was sworn in at 9:00 but we h e hahave no reports from anybody who witnessed that. we have no reports about ...

Attorney general by president obama, but she was a career employee of the justice department serving both republican and democratic presidents. she was fired tonight after she refused to try to defend the president's executive order on immigration in federal courts. we're back with david jolly, a former republican member of congress from florida, and david, you were just making these principled arguments against donald trump. >> sure. >> i can tell you that there is a place waiting in american history tonight for the republican member of congress, senate or house -- >> that's right. >> -- who ...

What did the acting attorney general know? the fact is the test of leadership, this is something that president trump, he's our president, should take seriously, is to rely on the subject matter experts around you. it is clear he didn't do that. you know, the historic nature of this is trump has made cabinet secretaries and other agency officials irrelevant in this process. you saw in the early years of the obama administration particularly in national security area, several agency officials leave. i think you will see that in the trump administration and lawrence, you're a congressional guy, ...

Events of tonight including your understanding, your reaction to the executive order that the acting attorney general tonight, the first acting attorney general of the night, thought was unlawful and a new acting attorney general has now been put in to try to fight to defend that order in court. your reaction to the order and to what we've seen happen tonight. >> yeah, lawrence, look, you nailed it with the monday night massacre. i think if this is week one of the trump administration, it indicates that within the first year, we might find our president drifting toward an impeachable moment. a...

Are and that's not where you want to be if you're at 45% and trying to get above water in your popularity ratings. >> and david jolly, this is what a transition is all about. this is why a careful transition matters. it matters to pick people to nominate for offices who you believe can get confirmed very quickly. >> that's it. >> so you won't have to live with acting directors of. but all of these act -- the acting attorney general, in fact, sally yates, was someone chosen by the trump transition team because -- >> that's it. >> -- she was a career justice department employee who had worked fo...