calling it routine. and arguing they have the law on their side. let's get the very latest now with cnn's boris sanchez in washington. so boris, we're hearing now for the first time from the possible new acting director. we're talking mulvaney, right? >> that's right, fred. we actually got a statement a few moments ago from nick mulvaney currently director of the omb. a lot of people were interested in hearing from him, in part, because he has been so critical of this cfpb. it was an agency that was created back after the financial meltdown in order to -- designed to protect consumers from predatory financial institutions. here's a bit of what mulvaney has said in the past. >> it's a wonderful example of how a bureaucracy will function if it has no accountability to anybody. it turns up being a joke. that's what the cfbp really has been in a sick sad kind of way.