commentator. does that mean you or i couldn t be in the government. dana: thank goodness. no, but does that mean someone is supposed to come into office with no views? we often have lawyers who took position against the government who might come in and work as an official. as long as whitaker can show he is impartial and unbiased. the real problem is you ask more generally, it s not clear to me whitaker can serve as attorney general because he hasn t been approved by the senate to some earlier post. i kind of think of this as an unforced error by the administration. they could appoint the deputy attorney general, solicitor general. any number of u.s. attorneys who ve been confirmed by the senate could serve in that job. whitaker was the chief of staff. he s more like an employee. even if whitaker is unbiased and fair, anyone who s involved, even mueller himself, is going to likely contest his ability to