and a lot of it is as yet unexplain ed. but again, the big headline tonight, president trump firing the acting attorney general of the united states sally yates ap she refused to defend the constitutional order in court. the story broke in the 9:00 hour. and one of our guests in our 9:00 p.m. eastern hour was an investigative reporter for "the new york times" who was learning the news as we were as we went to air earlier this evening in that the k hour. we asked him to come back now tonight in terms of updating us on his own reporting and understanding of what's happened. thank you for being with us. i appreciate your time. >> good to be back. >> since we spoke, do you have any update about how this happened in the justice department or consequences now that it has? >> we just got word about ten minutes ago that the replacement for sally yates had rescinded her order. so that was his first official act as acting attorney general was to announce he was rescinding yates' order ask was ordering the justice department to defend