protecting mueller s probe is a top priority and you re writing about that in your laste elates. what are democrats doing to keep it protected? a couple things. and they re not waiting until janua january. there s urgency to protect the mueller probe so nancy pelosi organized an emergency conversation with rank-and-file democrats and leaders of these investigative committees to talk about their next steps and they re talking about attaching protections to a must-pass spending bill for a few agencies so that could be a big fight and could lead to a shutdown if they demand that. they re sent letters demanding critical documents are preserved and if documents are destroyed that would be a crime. on the senate side they re talking about suing the trump administration over the whitaker