President Trump has fired heads of offices and agencies tasked, since Watergate, with protecting federal workers and whistleblowers. Scott Pelley reports on what's happening to independent watchdogs.

Hampton Dellinger remains an oddity in this current bleak iteration of the federal government—an uncaptured executive branch official.

A federal appeals court on Wednesday allowed President Donald Trump to temporarily remove the head of an independent watchdog agency who was investigating the administration’s mass firing of probationary federal employees.

A judge ruled Trump’s firing of NLRB member Gwynne Wilcox unlawful. The Trump administration appealed, asserting the president’s authority to remove officials.

Special counsel Hampton Dellinger says he is dropping his lawsuit to try to keep his job after President Donald Trump fired him. His decision comes a day after the federal appeals court in Washington temporarily removed him from the position,

A federal appeals court on Wednesday allowed President Donald Trump to remove Hampton Dellinger as special counsel for now.