blanket, an nhl emotional snuggie to keep everyone calm and carrying on by the book. today scott schools quit. npr broke the news that schools is leaving the justice department. his last day is friday this week. he is not being pushed out. he is not leaving because of a dispute with leadership. he will be replaced apparently by another career lawyer at the justice department. but for whatever reason, the justice department is losing its yoda at a time when the justice department is under a sustained, pointed aggressive partisan attack from the president of the united states and republican members of congress. so now what happens? joining us now is leon napok, a staff writer for slate. he wrote that aforementioned profile of scott schools last year, which was headlined the most important unknown person in d.c. as the russian investigation deepens, scott schools has become the conscience of the justice department. mr. nneyfakh, thank you very much for being here. >> thanks for having me.