attorney preet bhara.day after attorney general jeff sessions asked 46 federal prosecutors to tender their letter of resignation late yesterday. joining me on the phone now is jonathan deents. he's the chief executive reporter for w nbc tv here in new york. you know new york like the back of your hand. you've broken a lot of stories here. what happened in this case in your estimation? >> i think the u.s. attorney preet bhara thought that he had an offer and a deal with donald trump and attorney general sessions after the election that he would be kept on donald trump appraised the work that he had done in terms of fighting corruption and exposing the corruption both in politics and on wall street and that he was expecting to stay on and then i believe he was caught off guard on friday, yesterday when he was received the call asking for his resignation along with the other u.s. attorneys and he was surprised and he thought he might be able to get through this weekend speaking to the trump white house and do