everyone, welcome. pete, can you walk us through this lawsuit in maryland and where it stands right now. >> sure. first off, i'm completely outclassed by the other guests it here, but here are the facts. >> you are never outclassed, pete, ever. >> the answer to your question is yes. if the trump administration loses here, i'm sure they'll try to appeal it as much as they can. here's the maryland state argument. they have this lawsuit against jeff sessions and the government over obamacare. now it's time to substitute somebody else. what they asked the judge to say is rod rosenstein should be subed out for jeff sessions because he now is the acting attorney general, not matt whitaker. they say there are two reasons for this. first of all, they say a federal law which trumps all other lays, says when there's a vacancy in the office of attorney general, the deputy attorney general takes over. the president used a different law that allows him to put someone like whitaker in. the state of maryland says that law is basically souperseded by