confidence vote on her leadership. also, i'm happy to tell you that colin powell's top aide joins me to rebut donald trump's attack on this navy s.e.a.l. who helped kill osama bin laden. but, we begin tonight right now with important developments in this battle between president trump and the justice department, a fight that as we all know by now has defined donald trump's first term, at least ever since he fired the fbi director and sparked bob mueller's probe, and trump's new pick for attorney general is now under new pressure tonight. ky tell you three democratic senators suing to block this appointment, including senator richard blumenthal who joins me in a moment. his effort zeros in on a technicality. but the larger battle is over. matt whitaker's criticisms of this mueller probe, which trump claims he didn't know about despite donald trump's habit of watching tv news and yes, fixating on criticism of bob mueller. >> did you know before you