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>> you also filed a motion challenging trump as appointment of matthew whitaker as acting u.s. attorney general. you say sessions resignation should have led to rod rosenstein becoming the attorney general. can you give us an update on your suit? >> we filed that motion in a separate lawsuit in which we're defending the affordable care act. we're arguing it's constitutional and the justice department has refused to defend it. and so who the attorney general is is extremely important. in that lawsuit, we filed a motion because we sued jeff sessions as the attorney general. he's no longer the at...

You say sessions resignation should have led to rod rosenstein becoming the attorney general. can you give us an update on your suit? >> we filed that motion in a separate lawsuit in which we're defending the affordable care act. we're arguing it's constitutional and the justice department has refused to defend it. and so who is the attorney general is is extremely important. in that lawsuit, we filed a motion because we sued jeff sessions as the attorney general. he's no longer the attorney general. there's no dispute about that. but the proper person has to be named in that lawsuit. we filed...

Whitaker will take over as acting attorney general until a permanent replacement can be confirmed by the senate. welcome, judge. good to see you again. what do you make of the handling overall of the sessions resignation? >> i like jeff sessions, i consider myself a friend. ii think that he was unfairly treated. i think he was fulfilling the president's mandate, and the criticism of him for having recused himself was unfair. there was a regulation that required him top recuse himself in a situation where there was a criminal investigation. he may have recused himself too soon and too broadly. ...

Permanent replacement can be confirmed by the senate, michael served as the 81st attorney general of the united states, welcome, judge, good to see you again. >> good to be here. paul: what do you make of handling of the sessions resignation? >> look, i like jeff sessions, i consider myself a friend so i think that he was unfairly treated and i think he was fulfilling the president's mandate and that the criticism of him from having rescued himself was completely unfair because there was regular intaición that required -- regulation that required him to recuse himself, he might have rescued t...

Losing someone at the helm has an effect but it's not particularly immediate to most people. >> dana: congress is going to have to diplomat. this is maybe the beginning of more investigations to come from the new house majority led by the democrats. i do want you to listen to president trump yesterday. actually, we don't have the sound. i'll read it. this is at his press conference. he said this. this is an investigation where many, many millions of dollars has been spent and there's no collusion. i'd stay away from it, but you know what i do, i let it just go on. they're wasting a lot of mone...