harry siegel, welcome to democracy now! can you talk about what happened here and what this means, what preet bharara was looking at? >> i'm never sure with donald trump what is bundling and purposely doing. car rightmbassadors away, he said, get out, get out today. getting rid of the u.s. attorneys. again, these are pretty conventional things a new administration does, but they seem to be proceeding with purposeful contempt. hey, great job, we don't have your replacements lined up, but please leave your office, returned or you nelson and be done with all of your business today. -- return your emails and be done with all of your business today. preet bharara was investigating the seventh district. amy: the sovereign district. >> bharara, who showed really dependence, was pupursuing, whih i think trump liked to democrats, bill de blasio who has been investigating -- on amy: the mayor of new york. >> and the governor of new york. it was not clear if he was done with the same time, trump tower plus orbit.bharara he is had seve

joining me now is joan walsh, harry siegel, evan siegfried and subo chandra. i'm going to you first, what was he working on? >> a whole lot of things. two of the governor's closest allying and what came out in november, an investigation of fox news that came out in a different court hearing last month when a lawyer for former host there said that, hey, he had gotten a subpoena and that the southern district, sometimes called the sovereign district, was looking into the payoffs that fox had made in response to suits there, sexual harassment and otherwise, to see if those had been basically hidden from shareholders. so that's one development since trump said preet would be staying. >> and that's the roger ailes sexual harassment suit to be clear. >> to be very clear. the name that's come up immediately to replace preet is the son of the former attorney general who represented ailes and has been in business with giuliani, partners at two different law firms for over a decade. >> evan, you wrote a piece online saying this was a mistake for the trump administration