this is important, if whittaker was to become acting deputy attorney general, if rosenstein is forced out and whitaker steps up to that job, yeah we think rosenstein's aide would take over. but whitaker would take over a lot else. he would take over day-to-day operations of the justice department and its 100,000 employees. he would also suddenly oversee every other active investigation related to but not officially part of the mueller probe. so all the stuff that the mueller team has handed off to other prosecutors, including the u.s. attorney's office in d.c. and their prosecution of alleged russian spy maria butina, or the southern district of new york and their prosecution of michael cohen. also, the reported ongoing investigation by those same southern district of new york prosecutors into the finances of the president's business, the trump organization. those prosecutors investigating the trump organization's finances in the event of rod