MUELLER PROBE COULD BE IN
JEOPARDY.
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT EMPLOYEES
APPLAUD JEFF SESSIONS LEAVING
FOR HIS LAST TIME AS ATTORNEY
GENERAL.
SESSIONS STOPPING TO SHARE THE
HAND OF HIS FORMER CHIEF OF
STAFF, MATTHEW WHITAKER WHO'LL
REPLACE HIM.
PRESIDENT TRUMP MADE WHITAKER
ACTING ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR NOW.
SESSIONS RESIGNED AT PRESIDENT'S
REQUEST.
THE TWO HAD A TUMULTUOUS
RELATIONSHIP SINCE SESSIONS
RECUSED HIMSELF FROM THE RUSSIA
PROBE JUST AFTER HIS
APPOINTMENT.
PRESIDENT NOT HIDING HIS
DISAPPOINTMENT.
>> IF HE WAS THE GOING TO RECUSE
HIMSELF, HE SHOULD HAVE TOLD ME
PRIOR TO TRACHTAKING OFFICE.
REPORTER: SESSIONS DEPATURE
CREATES INSTANCE UNCERTAINTY.
NOTE ONLY JUSTICE DEPARTMENT BUT
ALSO IN ROBERT MUELLER'S OFFICE.
THEY THINK THAT ASSISTING
ATTORNEY GENERAL ROD ROSENSTEIN
WILL BE NEXT.
>> IF YOU ARE NUMBER TWO, AND
NUMBER  ONE GETS FIRED AND YOU
DON'T GET NUMBER ONE, THAT IS A
STRONG SIGNAL THAT YOUR DAYS ARE
NUMBERS.
REPORTER: DOES THIS LEGAL
AUTHORITY TO FIRE MUELLER IF HE
DECIDES.
>> MR. WHITAKER HAS EXPRESSIONED
SKEPTICISM TO SCOPE AND
BREDth OF MR. M MUELLER
INVESTIGATION.
REPORTER: A FEAR OF DEMOCRATS
THAT INCREASED TODAY.
>> PROTECTING MUELLER, AND HIS
INVESTIGATION IS PARAMOUNT.
REPORTER: PRESIDENT RESPONDED BY
TWITTER, THANKING SESSIONS FOR
HIS SERVICE, AND A PERMANENT
REPLACEMENT WILL BE ANNOUNCED AT
A LATER DATE.
IT WILL LIKELY H HAPPEN NEXT YE.
STEVE: ALL RIGHT.
THANK YOU.
