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2004, president bush waited until after the election for donald rumsfeld to replace him. >> bret: which he did the day after the midterms. >> this is a normal process. if he had waited to do this and this and all of a sudden some development came in the mueller probe or some controversy with the justice department and people started speculating -- we would be in conspiracy theories about obstruction of justice. the election has changed and he's moving on. >> bret: a lot of people are asking what has happened in the possibility of deputy attorney general rod rosenstein who was at the white hous...

The mueller investigation in any way. if they shouldn't be able to end markets, limited or interfere with mueller going forward and doing what he thinks is the right thing. that will help guide us as we go through this process. >> bret: their concern is that matt whitaker is going to do that. >> every prosecutor has jurisdictional boundaries. i don't know a single prosecutor that does not. mueller's jurisdictional boundaries have been set by rod rosenstein and they were amended in the memo that we have not seen. there has never been a prosecutor that had unfettered power to go investigate what...

Mitch landrieu of new orleans and michael bloomberg. >> the mayor of new orleans and he is one of those candidates very charismatic when you see him in person, really great retail politician. >> there are the familiar faces from the obama years, vice president joe biden, attorney general eric holder, by then spent a lot of times in the mid terms trying to help claire mccaskill over the finish line line. >> they want to try to go with someone who's younger, a fresher face, looking to the future. >> one big pressure to my question is whether hillary clinton will make a third attempt at the white...

Sessions which is exactly what we saw today. >> bret: what does this mean for special counsel robert mueller? >> we haven't heard from the acting attorney general about the special counsel but there's a lot of attention tonight on the knob that he wrote last summer that said if robert mueller investigates the finances, that would be a redlined crossed. it doesn't take a lawyer or even a formal federal prosecutor to conclude that investigating donald trump's finances or his family's finances falls completely outside of the realm of his 2016 campaign, and allegations that the campaign coordinato...

A chance. your reaction to losing the house? >> not surprised, historical headwinds, retirements, it's tough to win in off years. we picked up seats in the senate, i'm sorry for some of my friends that aren't coming back. mia love and stevie russell and others, it's an unusual line of work that we have chosen and the jury has spoken in the jury is always right. >> bret: what about the president saying if you didn't stand with me, too bad. today at the news conference. >> we lost the seat in south carolina, katie arrington stood with the president much more so than mark sanford. regrettably, sh...