special prosecutor against hillary. but when he recused himself he left the president with a crippled attorney general on the central investigation of the times. paul: what about the matt whitaker appointment. it's unusual as judge mukasey said. it would have been sensible to avoid that problem and any challenge to future decisions whitaker makes. >> the president was asked about this, and he basically made it sounds like, he was there and it was easy. it doesn't sound as though there was a great deal of thought put into that. he seems like a very competent person,, the chief of staff. and let's hope in the end that what happens is the president moves quickly to name a successor and we don't have to go through how long or what