o donnell, our white house reporter who is standing by. apparently kelly has new reporting to bring to us. kelly, what have you got? reporter: i ve also been in touch with john dowd. we are all covering this story on an ongoing basis and have had a lot of relationship with him during this process. and i don t want to be in the position of critiquing any other reporting, so let me be clear about that. he is saying that the daily beast used firing mueller is just wrong. and his statement does not say fire. he does say he wants an end to the investigation on the merits. so, is there some hair splitting there? well, rod rosenstein is the deputy attorney general, is the supervisor of special counsel robert mueller. he has a judgment call to make through the process about when it begins and ends. we have all the indications that mueller is still at work and perhaps even expanding his investigation base d on recent