This is a special breaking news edition of the Mother Jones podcast.

I'm Jamila King in New York.

Happening today, the Attorney General of the United States has been fired.

That news came with a giant Trumpian thump Wednesday morning, even as votes were still being counted in an election

that handed the house back to Democrats for the first time in eight years. The

implications could be enormous. Trump is installing a loyalist, and serious question marks now hang over the future of the Russia investigation.

We wanted to bring you the very latest because we know you will have questions.

David Corn, Washington Bureau Chief is with Dan Friedman,

Mother Jones's Foreign Influence and National Security reporter.

Thanks for being here, guys. Good to be with you.

Thank you.

David, let's start with you.

Where do you put this news in the pantheon of big developments for the future of the Trump presidency.

It's clearly on 11, maybe even up to a 13 or 14,

but it's not unexpected.

We had Trump for the last year saying it again and again,

it was a terrible mistake for him to have given the attorney general job to Jeff Sessions. Why? Because Jeff Sessions

recused himself from the Russian investigation and did not do what Trump wanted

the most. Protect Trump. Trump has said repeatedly, why can't I have an attorney

general like Bobby Kennedy who protected John Kennedy, or Eric Holder who protected John Kennedy or Eric Holder who protected Barack Obama.

He's really thinking like a mob bus.

He needs a Tom Hagen, a consiglierei to protect him and is that as the number one job of the AG.

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