o'donnell. i'm watching all three because i am riveted. my thanks to you all. ken delanian had to run off for breaking news, i'm sure. i'm nicolle wallace chuck todd, i can't wait for that. >> can't wait to duct live sunday morning. it will be great. if it's friday, the white house getting devoured by a wolff. >> tonight, michael wolff fights back against president trump's criticism of his book "fire and fury." >> my credibility is being questioned by a man who has less credibility than perhaps anyone who has ever walked on earth at this point. >> plus, targeting sessions. the attorney general is facing escalating pressure on all sides. we'll talk to one of the republican members of congress calling on jeff sessions to resign. >> it's the attorney general's job to do his constitutional duty. >> finally, the trump administration squares off with

the states on everything. from offshore oil drilling to onshore pot smoking. whatevered happened to the don't tread on me gop? this is "mtp daily," and it starts right now. good evening. i'm chuck todd here in washington. welcome to "mtp daily." folks, debate the accuracy of individual anecdotes of michael wolff's book all the want but you cannot do this with the portrait. everyone is seemingly painting the same portry. >> according to your reporting, every single person around the president questions his intelligence and fitness for office? >> let me put a, a marker in the sand here. 100% of the people around him. >> the one description that everyone gave, everyone has in common, they all say he is like a child.

they say he's -- a moron, an idiot. i will quote steve bannon. he's lost it. >> the president in the white house say wolff's reporting is a book of lies. look around. seemingly everywhere around the president, treating him like the president in wolff's book. frankly a lot of people in this town say looks like the president they know as well. hard to ignore, because everywhere you look seems like the people around this president adopted a two-part strategy of containment and apeacement dealing with him. appeasement from republicans to get him to sign seemingly whatever they want and containment from white house staffers to appreciate him from seemingly doing whatever he wants. the appeasement is obvious. whether the party fawning over him for their tax plan. or cabinet meetings that begin by paying homage to his greatness, like some religious benediction, or the pretzels they tie themselves into to defend everything he says.

or the leads they pursue seemingly at his request. for example, the very first congressional criminal referral in the republican investigation into russian interference is -- against someone who tried to expose russian interference. republican senators chuck grassley and lindsey graham referred christopher steele to the justice department for investigation. the president said was a hillary clinton pile of garbage. proving russia colluded not the republicans. and today's big headline, that the fbi is investing the clinton foundation again, which the president angrily demanded despite saying he did not want to pursue charges to "hurt the clintons" because, "they're good people." that was before bob mueller. seems the goal of the president, seemingly, contain him. you want to see appeasement in

action, stopping attorney general jeff sessions from recusing himself from the russia investigation and when that failed, the president erupted in anger. one of the president's lawyers went so far as to mislead the president himself about his authority to fire the fbi director. why? out of fear the president would actually do it. the president recent lly said h can do whatever he wants with the justice department, but, folks, is that nay way to lead the justice department that cares about the rule of law over partisanship? joining me, ken delanian. you've been working on some of that, what the "new york times" report about this idea that the white house, that the president ordered don mcgahn, white house counsel to work with him. you say it wasn't just don mcgahn and we're now reporting there have been efforts to get jeff sessions to unrecuse himself? >> not necessarily. i was able to confirm it wasn't just, this is in february before sessions announced recusal but already decided. >> done it.

>> unbeknownst to the white house. it wasn't just don mcgahn but other white house officials yet unnamed. a full-court press to guess sessions not to recuse himself, apparently because donald trump wanted a protector and his instincts were right. nothing good happened from jeff sessions recusal. >> no. it's no longer in his hands. he doesn't have the same type of control. the clinton investigation. what has been opened up? what's, what are they -- this -- seems as if the fbi investigated this before and determined there wasn't enough to bring charges? >> right. it appears they're taking another look at it. the clinton foundation. >> do they have new evidence? >> it's not clear. we know the fbi office in little rock is in charge of this investigation. apparently there's a clinton foundation satellite in little rock. they're also looking at the iranian one matter again. this comes from congressional republicans demanding a special

counsel in this case and jeff sessions saying we'll look at these matters and democrat view it as serious. allegations the cia had broken the law torturing detainees. case closed. eric holder asked it be reopened, special counsel examined, no charges filed. makes people nervous when it looks like politics is intruding or criminal investigations. >> now i want to ask about the criminal referral on christopher steele. he never testified before congress. why is does congress have the tort to ask for a criminal investigation in this sense, or referral? what's the standing? what's the evidence? >> our understanding, they have a lot of documents they've demanded from the fbi about how the fbi democrat with steele. they know what steele told the fbi at certain points and apparently detected a misstatement about when steele said he talked to certain reporters. told the fbi one thing and maybe

they have documents to suggest another thing. they're not saying, by the way, he intentionally lied. not that at all. a material misstatement in a criminal investigation. you've seen, democrats are slapping their foreheads over this saying this is a transparent attempt to go after the dossier and something at the heart of the trump investigation. >> surprises me, chuck grassley and lindsay graham referred it. no democrat. usually something like this you want to try to have a bipartisan -- certainly lindsey graham i know supposedly wanted to keep everything bipartisan in the judiciary committee. is that no locker the case? >> no. this is broken down along partisan lines because the senate judiciary committee made a mission of taking apart the dossier. for whatever reason senator grassley really is angry about the way that is handled. made allegations and with russian propaganda wants to expose this to the world. >> ken delanian, as always, busy friday. going to it be probably a busy friday night as well.

thank you. joining me now, ohio republican congressman jim jordan, a member of the house judiciary committee. congressman, welcome back to the show. >> good to be with you. >> all right. i want to start with your call for jeff sessions to resign. because one of the things that you cite is his inability to control leaks. i have to say, for members of congress to complain about others leaking to me is laughable. no offense. are you going to tell me you've never liked or nobody from your staff ever leaked or nobody from the judiciary ever leaked things to the reporters? >> but this issen fbi supposedly in an ongoing investigation. there's a standard -- >> you guys are the u.s. congress. how intelligence committee. devin nunes caught leaking things. it's not new. >> they tell us, can't answer your questions. wouldn't answer fundamental questions like, did the fbi pay christopher steele author of the

dossier? wouldn't answer the question. saying there's an ongoing investigation, but then leak to the "new york times" four unnamed sources? forget about the last year on the dossier. it's really papadopolos in a bar in great britain shooting off are his mouth. the catalyst for the russian investigation. come on. if attorney general sessions does his job, appoints a second counsel, stops the leaks, gives us the dounlcuments and answer r questions. do your job, everything is fine. if not, maybe it's time for someone else. >> do you believe russians intervee feared in the election in 2017? >> that's what who been said. >> you don't think there's evidence? >> no, no. the intelligence community told us that. what special counsel mueller is looking into, did the trump campaign coordinate with the russians to influence the election. to date, zero evidence on that, but of course some colleagues on the democrat side want to forget

that the clinton campaign paid the law firm who pace fusiid fud chris steele who said the russians colluded in the american election. >> seems you're more concerned about the invest ga tours than perhaps the alarming allegation, which is foreign interference. >> chuck, high wouldn't be concerned about the investigators? think what we've learned in the last eight weeks 379 dossier and clinton campaign one in the same paid for the dossier, likely used as the basis to secure the -- >> and -- you keep saying likely used? there's no facts. >> and bruce and all of that stuff we've learned about in the last few weeks. you said you're not concerned about the investigators? i'm concerned about all of it. i said let's get answers to all of these questions. >> why not actually find -- a fact that somehow these

investigators made up? you're assuming they've made this stup up? do you believe these investigators are making stuch up and making up allegations about the russians attempts to influence the campaign? >> no. i think it's highly unusual that peter strzok and lisa paige exchanged text messages where they say we need an insurance policy because we can't let the american people elect donald trump president. can't let that happen and he's the guy on the mueller team. highly unusual when normally the invest greaters say, can't make information public ongoing investigation. they say we'll release 375 texts. why did they release any texts and why only 375 of the 10,000? that's unusual that bruce, a top lawyer ate the justice department's wife was working on the dossier project and i want answers in the midst of all the investigations we have. >> does it at all not make you feel better that robert mueller got rid of these fbi

investigators from his team before you and others pointed this out? this is only known after the fact. he got rid of these investigators before -- they found themselves, their own internal -- does that not give you any sort of confidence that, you knee what? he is policing his investigators. >> that's fine, but they didn't tell us why they got rid of him, and never forget, lisa paige left two weeks before peter strzok. two weeks before the fbi and bob mueller even knew about this. why did she leave early? i don't know the answer. i think that's important and could be relevant. all of thee questions. we did a list of them. 18 key questions in 2018 we need answers to and why we think we need documents and access to the witnesses. frankly many of us and a growing course of meshes is calling for a second special counsel. this is no way partisan. it's about less get the answers for all of these questions. i'd like to see the same kind of infencety to answer the questions i'm raising that so many people have for bob mueller

and his investigation. just a fraction of the intensity would be good. >> and is the -- i think one is about potentially a treasonous allegation, and one feels like political gamesmanship. >> how is it political gamesmanship when the guy who ran the clinton investigation, russian investigation, interviewered mills, aberdeen, clinton, michael flynn are and need an insurance policy and can't run the risk of donald trump being president? how is that -- >> what you're saying -- >> important to get to the bottom of. >> why should you be a credible investigator on congress? you're a partisan, conservative republican. you're saying that somehow this fbi agent because he may have had a personal opinion about donald trump was somehow going to skew his investigation? you believe that? >> chuck, he wasn't just any fbi agent. he was a top official. seventh floor official. >> right. do you have any investigation -- >> he was deputy head of

counterintelligence. not just -- >> i understand that. do you think he would have gotten those jobs -- gotten those jobs if he weren't an ethical person in the fbi? the fbi is this? do you believe the fbi is this corrupt? >> i know he was kicked off of mueller's team when it was discovered what was in his text messages and ran the investigation of clinton, the russian investigation with that inherent bias displayed in the text messages. you don't think we should interview this guy? ask questions? >> of course you should. >> of course. we're getting to that and need the documents first. finally, thank goodness nunes is pushing. >> let me ask you this. you want jeff sessions to resign because you feel he's not controlling the fbi but he recused himself. >> i didn't say wasn't doing his job. >> isn't it ethical, isn't he taking the ethical route saying he abided by career attorneys who told him, look, you were

involved in the campaign. you made a pledge during your confirmation hearing. he's abiding by his pledge. how is he supposed to "get control of the leaks of the fbi and russia investigation" if he's recused himself? >> he's still the attorney general. you still shouldn't leak information in an ongoing investigation. we've called for him to appoint a second special investigation. lindsey graham called for it. >> you're saying because of his position on the russia investigation he's incapable of carrying out the functions of being attorney general? >> no. i'm saying four big concerns we have. wipe we say, deal with these four big concerns. if you can't do your job, we need to look at someone else. i like jeff sessions. i want him to do the job, but i want that to happen. i want him to stop the leaks. give us the documents. i want limb to answer our questions. why couldn't he answer the question? did the fbi pay christopher steele? were the taxpayers actually

paying the guy who wrote this dossier at the exact same time the fbi was paying this guy? if the answer is, yes, i think that is troublesome in my mind. frankly should be troublesome for any american if that in fact happened. >> what i never put together on this theory that the clinton campaign is somehow, was i don't know, i guess you may believe they were trying to entrap trump or whatever. if they had this op-o, why didn't they use it during the campaign? >> ask them that. i don't know. >> see, this is why -- do you see why this doesn't make a lot of sense? i mean, if this was -- if this was as aggressive an attempt as you're laying out here, that the clinton campaign was somehow sort of manipulating things behind the scenes, then they were pretty stupid not to use it during the campaign. >> no, they did try to use it. everyone, every news outlet had

this dossier. no one printed it because it was ridiculous. david coyne was the first to print it on october 31, a week before the election and jones, i want to know who the source was, by the way. everyone had this but so ridiculous no one was going to print it. it didn't get legitimacy until, who, james comey, january 6, 2017, briefs president-elect trump in new york and then someone leaks that, maybe comey, who knows. leaks the fact that that briefing was about the dossier. then the press runs with it and it becomes a big thing. yeah. the press y'all had it beforehand. i don't know why they didn't use it, why the clinton campaign didn't push it more. mostly i think because the press said, this is ridiculous. >> if you're going to call for penal to resign because they leak, who's left in washington? >> about to see. >> congressman jim jordan, leave it there. thanks for coming on. appreciate it. >> you bet. thank you. up ahead, the president's allies handling him, a policy of

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welcome back. john kelly was brought in as white house chief of staff to bring discipline to the white house and keep president trump focused. that meant kelly was in charge of curtailing tweets originating in the oval office. turns out kelly has been buried in a twitter storm. a new study courtesy of major washington operative notes that president trump sent just under six tweets a day when reince priebus was running the white house. now 8.25 with kelly in charge. how about that? if this week taught us anything, a presidential tweet can derail the white house and put the president's private frustrations on public display. and since 2018 began, seems kelly has given up or needs to

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no. welcome back. happy friday, i guess's plenty to get to with the panel. bring them in. former white house director under president obama. editor-in-chief and national politics correspondent of "washington post." welcome. matthew, use your column to set this conversation going. your lead. it says this -- shows you what i know. if the final days of december, i said a president's win in the form of a tax bill. it took less than 72 hours for 2018 to prove me wrong. matthew? >> the missing factor was president trump. what strikes me about the past few days is all of the work that john kelly has done since coming in, in july to impose order and

organization, a more traditional white house structure on this white house has been forgotten, thanks to president trump's tweets and then, of course, this blockbuster book by michael wolff. we're now thrown back into the early days of the trump administration which everything was disorganized chaos. >> and, you know, i've had somebody ask me. like, all right, sort of the best spin they could put on the michael wolff book defending the president is, well, isn't he really painting a portrait of six months versus, oh, the last three months? that's a hopeful attitude i guess, but the president's own behavior sort of shot that theory down. >> and you got to ask, what was so different about the last, you know, eight weeks of last year versus the beginning? and not really that much, except, of course, for the -- the legislative win in the form of the tax legislation, which was supposed to be the kickoff to a number of other successes that the white house has been

telling all of us they were lining up. i mean, look. the book paints a relentlessly unflattering portrait. not only of the operations of the white house, which appear to be chaotic and not really e -- not having people directly in charge, confusing lines of authority, but of the president himself. and that -- apart from the specifics that they're taking issue with, that seems to be the heart of the criticism. >> and either -- yiv beou've be book duty before at the white house. i'm familiar with how a white house usually operates when trying to deal with a book that creates sometimes hurt feelings personally, all sorts of people looking over their shoulder. critique how the president's handled this in the last two days. how they've handled it. what would you advise this president to do? >> chuck, every white house learns, although this president

doesn't seem to be that interested in precedent or in norms, but every white house learns that the more you attack a book, the more you draw attention to precisely what you don't want to draw attention to, which is, the book. and that, you know, by second terns, and we can only see if that's the case if there is a second term here, the white house has generally learned to let books come and go with a minimum amount of drama. maybe you need to correct a few things. maybe you need to put it out, but that, just let the book come, go. things move so quickly today. i would be remiss. i have to say something which is the process by which this book was not managed during its, small we say in -- >> you're insulted as a communications professional? >> and thinks there is no better. there is no better illustration of how bad process leads to disastrous outcomes than the fact you would let someone basically sit on a bench in the

west wing. it's extraordinary. >> i don't know if you saw this tweet. gabe sherman, contributor here at nbc noted, he goes, why didn't somebody at the white house call rupert murdoch. what did they think of michael wolff and wolff responds, i was waiting for that phone call to be made, assuming it would torpedo him. >> and not only the back-biting and chaos of the administration, not only the writing of the book, it's clear he's one of the main sources but also, thirdly, president trump's response. it's clear in president trump's, again, thermonuclear statement about bannon that this became personal in a way. that's, of course, the missing ingredient between how earlier white houses have dealt with things like this and how the trump white house has dealt with this. >> david stockman, when he did his book, it was personal. george stephanopoulos. >> that was personal.

>> that was personal, too. >> others didn't take it personally. >> oh, no, no, no. they did. they just didn't tell us how personal they took it publicly. bill clinton is still angry about it. >> and cease and desist letters either. >> how many authors, please, can you senda a cease and desist letter to my book. the author took to twitter and facebook yesterday and said, "thanks mr. president." >> he went from 449,000 to 1. >> continue to the marketer in this case, reverse marketing. jump in. i'm sorry. >> no. every president of course takes these things personally. nobel a not only are there -- nobody likes to see themselves in the pages of anything. right? you never recognize yourself. so every president does take it personally. every president does not have twitter. every president does not manage his staff the way trump manages his, which is basically the way

he managed his company. >> i was going to say. i've talked to a few people who are still friendly with this president and been with him a long time who say, well, the portrait is -- this assumption smouf the president is undisciplined. pes this is how he likes it. the chaos is a part -- their warning, be careful criticizing the chaos. that's what he demands. he almost, inspires chaos. >> and it is clear since part of the deal was published 30 years ago, says it right there in the opening chapter. he likes his time unstructured,ic whos to improvise. goes with his gut. the qualities that brought him to this point with stops in entertainment and real estate along the way. the problem, when they crash into the very disciplined organized institutional culture of washington. we have great earthquakes. >> and i'm going to point out, i think some of us have been in rooms with politicians who read stories and seen things and said

we have to sue these people. right? and everybody is sitting around saying, yeah, terrible. i can't believe that read that, blah, blah, blah, and then somebody will say, here's why we can't do it. it's very clear both from the book itself and from this week, there's nobody in the white house who can have that conversation with this president to say, no. here's why this is a really bad idea. >> here's the problem i think they have, though, and it's that the reason why think book is not dismissed easily is, if you just read the clips, the coverage, day to day throughout 2017, and frankly nothing unfamiliar in there. what shocked me about the book is it was on the record. that was the shocking part. i've heard those same quotes. i just heard them off the record. >> and maybe were given off the record. >> that's possible. absolutely. >> be i've heard that from people. >> and somebody says, michael wolff a -- >> ban sn not disputing what he's quoted as saying on the record. i mean, that tells you a lot. >> it does. pause here.

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welcome back. republicans have campaign ford years on few guiding principles. small government, less oversight and the idea that states are the laboratories of democracy. heard it louder than ever since the rise of the tea party in 2010 #. people don't want bureaucrats in washington controlling them. let the states make they are own laws. changing their tune now in they control the washington bureaucracy. look what the trump add min installation done? opened up nearly all yaur shore waters to drilling even in states that don't want it, targeting sanctuary cities and states with legal marijuana, sorry. cracking down on illegal pot if and when we see fit. came a long way from the "don't tread on me gop." joining me a blue state

governor, governor of washington. not only legalized marijuana but also has offshore drilling, sanctuary cities and deductions in the tax bill that just passed. welcome back to the show, sir. >> thanks. >> let me start with the offshore oil decision, because i've not thought of the waters off the coast of washington state as potentially water -- potentially places to go drill. is this something that has been in the works before? has the state passed its own laws? walk me through what you've done in the past to prevent offshore drilling in washington state? >> this is one. most unifying beliefs in washington state. that it's just insane and grossly irresponsible to chase a last drop of oil exposing our beautiful beaches that we depend on for so many things, including tourism and enjoyment for

virtually no benefit for washington or the united states. this is a bipartisan action, and the only thing i see the president understood there is chaos and trouble in the white house so their knee-jerk response, attack the west coast on oil and the states moving forward in marijuana. >> do you really believe it's a -- a political vendetta decision? i mean, it's not like the president didn't campaign on drill everywhere. he was -- he was somebody that was wanting to unleash -- as he would say, time and again, the oil and gas, you know, reserves we have here. >> well, i just say the timing is curious. and what they've done is curious. take marijuana. they've had a year to announce some policy and haven't done it. all of a sudden we're in the middle of chaos, all of a sudden this alleged policy comes out which is really not a policy, because they actually have not directed prosecutors in my state

to actually prosecute anyone, and at the moment, we don't think anything will change, probably in our state. we are moving full-speed ahead. not changing course. this has been very successful. we haven't have the youth use of marijuana go up, and they have not ordered any change. on oil offshore drilling, there is marginal interest in the industry of doing this, frankly. in part because of the massive expansion on land. so, yes, i think there is reason to be asking serious questions about the fact that these are not only horrible policies for the environment, they're not economically necessary and you bet. i think everything in this administration is justifiably suspect from a political standpoint. so that's what i believe. >> let me go on the marijuana front. one of the responses the justice department has said in, when we've queried on this and when senator gardner, republican senator from colorado pushed back heavily on this they simply said, hey, the justice

department doesn't make the law. they enforce the law. congress is in charge of making law. where is the demand by you and other governors to your members of congress, will you go codify this? go codify this experiment, if you will? governor hickenlooper on yesterday couldn't quite say what the federal, what he wanted from the federal government on this beyond a justice department ruling. what do you want from congress? >> i will be happy to go further than my colleague, because clearly congress ought to act on this. look at the clear evidence that this is working in the states where it has been well regulated. the act with the desires of the american people and codify legalizing of this product, both in the medical and recreational context, because we have proven in our state and colorado, for that matter, and i believe california will be openly successful ultimately, when e regulate the market you get no increase in youthful use of the product. less chasten criminals for this

when prosecutors and sheriffs should be chasing real criminals's no increase in scandalous behavior and some revenue benefit for your states. that's just the reality. we need leaders including in washington, d.c. to make decisions based on evidence rather than ideology. the evidence is it doesn't make sense to go backwards on marijuana. the evidence is it doesn't make sense to go backwards on oil drilling when we have a climate change crisis on our hands, we have a president still thinking climate change is a hoax and an attorney general has had a bee in his bonnet, which would have us dragged back decades. this is a country that ought to move forward and i encourage my colleagues in other states, other governors, to, in fact, lead their states on this path. >> if you were -- >> that actually works. >> if you were president, would you advocate full legalization of marijuana? >> with the same regulatory and

disciplined system that we have, yes. now, you have to have a disciplined system. you have to have an educational program to educate your children that this -- that these drugs can have bad effects. and you have to have a system to make sure it's not diverted out of state or in criminal behavior. you have to have a system to make sure the money isn't just turned into a money laundering operation. our state has proven, colorado has proven, if you do those things, you will end up with less criminality and a population accepting their personal decision-making and individual decision-making. so, yes, i would. this is a nation now that has shown we can change. changed on gay marriage, changing rapidly on this issue very, very rapidly and moving forward, and moving forward, this oil drilling issue, we have to decarbonize our economy over time. this is going backwards in this regard. >> got you to accept my

hypothetical about being president. let me ask you about 2020. are you somebody that we should be making room for on our list when wondering who's running? >> i think i'm someone that would welcome your invitation on your show anytime, regardless of the answer to that question. i'm focused on being govern every. >> democratic governor jay inslee. appreciate that answer and coming on. thank you. >> thank you. up ahead, why it's harder to take politicians in washington literally or seriously. of smar. and when you replace one meal... ...or snack a day with glucerna... ...made with carbsteady... ...to help minimize blood sugar spikes... ...you can really feel it. now with 30% less carbs and sugars. glucerna.

welcome back. tonight i'm obsessed how the washington spin control game is corrupting our ability to have meaningful conversations about policy. what i mean -- the labor department reported today the economy added 148,000 jobs in december. keep in mind 148,000 is a disappointing number. hat tip to the daily beast sam stein. a republican said about that job growth under president trump. "our economy continued to make progress last month rounding out a steady year of job growth for hard working americans." okay. what brady two years ago said when the economy added 292,000 jobs in december. with a different president from a different party, barack obama. "we know that millions of more americans would be working today if the obama administration spent less time growing washington and more time grow egg the economy." just to show you this goes both

ways, here's house minority leader nancy pelosi today. december's lackluster jobs report shows that americans continue to suffer under republicans corporate and special interest agenda. here she is one year ago, after almost the same number. 156,000 jobs created last december. the economy continues to move forward. to be fair, pelosi points out more needs to the done. get it? for republican brady, 148,000 jobs under president trump is progress. nearly twice as many under president obama meaners millions left behind. democrat pelosi, 148,000 jobs under trump, lackluster. and under mr. obama, moving forward. keep in mind what success under my guy, failurer and under yours is a routine part of the spin game. maim makes you wonder why ridiculous press briefs are put out and

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who hasn't he ticked off? >> i was going to say chuck schumer. right? i think at this point people are lining up to say outright or to suggest that sessions should lea leave. that trump should fire him. democrats say that's completely trans parent. the only reason republicans would want him out so the president could pick a new attorney general who wouldn't be bound by the same recusal rules. could fire rosenstein, could fire mueller, game on.

>> kyle whitmeyer is a columnist in alabama. he wrote this. jordan and meadows put me in the position of defending someone i disagree with 90% of the time. a rough word from someone on the other side of the aisle. it does seem as though jeff sessions is a man on an island. >> i'll surprised there aren't more defending him. certainly on policy as he man of great principle. i was struck with this marijuana decision. also the debate within conservative and republican ranks. there's a lot of annoyance at the justice department for this. even for the more libertarian minded, legal pot is something to embrace. that might be one person there's not as much defense of him. >> i challenge them.

i have yet to find a republican senator who has been supportive of the sessions marijuana decision. we've seen some that have come out. nobody has embraced the decision he made. i'm not finding any high profile support. >> i haven't seen anything. >> i want to pick up on something ann said. chuck schumer did put out a statement yesterday saying sessions can't resign. he can't go. which was markedly different handle the his statement of march 2nd, calling on him to resign. >> i think at some point jim jordan might have called for the last attorney generals to resign. i'm being facetious. >> only because he wasn't around for the last six. jeff sessions committed what is apparently the cardinal sin of listening to the career people of his department. if you believe michael wolff's i want my own roy cohn thing. this is what a lot of people are

very concerned about. the justice department, the fbi piece of this. >> i was going to say, is this recoverable? i have to say, look, plenty of clinton partisan who's really believed there were fbi agents in the new york field office leaking all the time rudolph giuliani. stoking the fires on the clinton e-mail investigation. now you have partisans on the right who believe the fbi is messing around and mucking with the russia investigation. the fact is that's not healthy for the fbi, period. >> no. and it is something that comey was very aware of. and worried about. they hadn't gotten anywhere near. >> one could say almost overworried about it. that was part of the problem. >> yeah. he was operating on the principle of, we have a way to do this. we may not like the outcome but we have a way to do this and we'll stick to it. obviously, that all sort of seems like ancient history now

and slightly quaint. >> i'm waiting to see, are we going to get to the point where we should treat the head of the department of justice the same as the federal reserve chair? meaning they're five-year terms. we try to create at least the potential and maybe you stagger the top three appoint willees at justice so their terms expire at different times. i only say this because it seems fast, as partisans, there's no trust in wash for either justice department. >> that's an interesting idea. i think support for it, which isn't out there now, would probably hinch on what happens in the next two years. we're living in a state of suspended animation. we're just waiting for robert mueller. we really don't know what he's doing. we get these little snap shots. >> we don't know. he may have a deep throat in the west wing right now. >> we don't know whether he is pursuing them or not.

a lot of the questions about the role of the justice department, its response and such and how to perform it in the future will be left open. >> and one quick note that the 51-49 thing. that this gets rubber stamped very easily, there are some republican who's might want to ask some questions as well. even though they've walked away from the red line, you can't fire mueller. >> good luck in a new attorney general getting confirmed in this environment. great weekend. i hope you have it ahead. when there's nothing to be proud of, is there something to celebrate?

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in case you missed it, sometime nothing is really something. just ask the good old people of cleveland, ohio who are about to host a parade for their beloved browns. their beloved 0-16 browns. tomorrow the city will kick off a perfect season parade honoring a football season devoid of a single victory. they'll march around the stadium with pride wounded but heads held high. let's be frank. this has been an awful run for the browns and their fans. one and 31? more presidents than wins over the last two years. do you know who won big this season in paper bags. it was the mask of choice for a number of fans.

chances are we'll see a few more this weekend. in all seriousness, kudos to cleveland. guess what? proceeds are going to the local food bank to help people in need so maybe cleveland is really winning after all. by the way, go get to know sam darnold. hello. i'm kris jansing. we start with breaking news. a development on where this is all headed politically. it was one year ago that three intelligence agencies released this document. a 15-page report detailing vladimir putin's campaign to influence the 2016 u.s. presidential election. a year later, donald trump and his republican allies appear to be and pending less attention on investigating the crime than they are on following three people. the political victim