justice looking at those laws that have been passed by states and the actions by some states to do their own audits of last year's election returns. and as you heard him say at the beginning of your program, any time the justice department thinks there is a violation, it will act, will intervene in those states. so, it's a pretty clear signal that the justice department does intend to get involved in some of these state laws and some of these lawsuits challenging the new voting restrictions. he said they're in the process now of scrutinizing these laws and testing to see whether they violate the constitution or federal laws which is what these lawsuits that have already been filed by voting rights groups and others in the states claim. >> pete, let me ask you about the "times" reporting on the trump doj here for a moment. how significant is it that the deputy attorney general asked for an investigation and what would that investigation look like? >> well, it would be an