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