general. he acknowledged that then-f.b.i. director james comey voiced concerns about being left alone with president trump, after a february meeting. he declined to discuss any conversation he had with the president on firing comey. and, he defended his handling of his recusal from the investigation of russian meddling in the election. sessions also said he still does not remember a meeting with the russian ambassador at a trump speech in washington last year. and he said he never meant to mislead anyone during his confirmation hearings. >> let me state this clearly. colleagues, i have never met with or had any conversations with any russians or any foreign officials, concerning any type of interference with any campaign or election. in the u.s. further, i have no knowledge of any such conversations by anyone connected to the trump campaign. i was your colleague in this body for 20 years, and the suggestion that i participated in any collusion, or that i was aware of any collusion with the rus

just in general. attorney general sessions: no, well, i met a lot of people, a lot of foreign officials. who wanted to argue their case for their country and to point out things that they thought were important. for their countries. but that's a normal thing i guess we talk about. senator rubio: as far as someone who is not an official, just a businessman or anyone walking down the street who struck you as someone trying to find out what you were up to, what the campaign was up to, you never remember any interaction in in hindsight appears suspicious? attorney general sessions: i'd have to wrack my brain but i don't recall it now. senator rubio: the republican platform was changed to not provide defensive weapons to ukraine, were you involved in that decision, do you know how that change was made or who was involved? attorney general sessions: i was not active in the platform committee. did not participate in that and don't think i had any direct involvement. senator rubio: do you know who did? do you

you're here instead of the attorney general, and you're here as acting attorney general with regard tocial counsel, and you exercised the hire and would exercise the fire decision with regards to special counsel bob mueller. that's because attorney general sessions is recused from that matter. on may 9th, you delivered a memo to attorney general sessions entitled "restoring public confidence in the fbi," and your memo exclusively focused on director comey's conduct during the clinton e-mail investigation and concluded, "the way the director handled the conclusion of that investigation was wrong." and you ultimately stated, "having refused to admit his errors, the director cannot be expected to implement the necessary corrective actions." is that roughly correct? >> i believe it is, yes. >> and on that same day, attorney general sessions then sent a memo to president trump, relying exclusively on your memo, where the attorney general recommends director comey be removed. is that correct? >> i believe that's correct. >> and during his january 10 confirmation hearing, ag sessions stated h

we're asking your thoughts on president trump's relations with his generals, his reliance on generals. 202-748-8001 for republicans. democrats, 202-748-8000. independents and others, 202-748-8002. also for afghanistan vets, that line is 202-748-80034. let's hear from marvin in philadelphia. good morning, democrats line. caller: yeah, i think that he needs to trust our allies and our military and trust himself, too. i think that it's a three stage. you cannot be basically willing to fight all the time. you've got to be able to have three ways on everything. hell snow host: yeah, we're here, marvin. so do you think that the president is right in the direction he's going in terms of asking -- you're saying allies, asking nato, for example, to contribute more to the defense effort? caller: yes, i think so. in a way that they're going to ontribute more, not going over , but in a way they're going to contribute more. host: let's go to our afghanistan vets line, pennsylvania. owen, welcome. caller: good morning. host: good morning. caller: i just want to say that i'm an afghan vet, infantrym

deputy attorney general, mr. rosenstein, i just want to follow-up quickly on the two questions that senator shaheen asked you about the special counsel. has the president ever -- or discussed the special counsel in any way? >> no, he has not. >> and second, if president trump ordered you to fire the special counsel what would you do? >> senator, i'm not going to follow any orders unless i believe those are lawful and appropriate orders under the regulation, special counsel mueller may be fired only for good cause and i am required to put that cause in writing and so that's what i would do. if there were good cause, i would consider it. if there were no knot good cause it wouldn't matter to me what anybody says. >> thank you. i want to turn to the opioid crisis which plagues my state and so many others. drug overdoses were responsible for more than 59,000 deaths in this country including a record -- that is 104 more overdose deaths than the year before in my state. the situation is actually getting worse despite c

just in general. for their country and to point out things that they thought were important. that's a normal thing i guess we talk about. as faras normal thing i guess we talk about. as far as someone who wasn't an official from another country, a businessman or anyone who struck you as someone who was trying to find out what the campaign was up to, you don't remember any interaction that in hindsight appears suspicious?” have to wrack my brain but i don't re call have to wrack my brain but i don't recall it now. you on the foreign policy team, the republican platform was changed to not provide defensive weapons to ukraine, where you involved in that decision, do you know who was involved in making that change? i wasn't active in the platform committee, did not participate in that and don't think i had participate in that and don't think ihad any participate in that and don't think i had any direct involvement. do you know who did, do you have any recollection? i never watched the debate, if it occurr

not exactlyssions: but generally. he chases down through the intelligence community and was not able to find evidence to that effect and that he sought republicans and democrats appear to tell him this was false and that there was no such facts anywhere that corroborated with the new york times had reported. nonetheless, after this committee took that on, it is one thing we spent substantially more time on that van russian measures, we have been through thousands of pages of information. really no different than where this whole thing started here there have been no reports i know of of any factual information. are you aware of any such information? atty gen. sessions: the so-called dossier? i believe that is the report senator franken hit me with when i was testifying. has beent substantially discredited that you would know more than i. this would suggest i participated in continuing communications with russians as a surrogate, that is absolutely false. >> has been talk about conversations and you had conversations w

general lynch had urged mr. comey to make this announcement so she wouldn't have to do it. but in, fact, it appears he did it without her approval totally and that is a pretty stunning thing. it is a stunning thing. it violates fundamental powers and then when he reaffirmed that -- the rightness he believed of his decision on may 3rd, i think it was, that was additional confirmation that the director's thinking was not clear. >> senator reid? >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. first, a point, attorney general. the senator and others have raised the issue of long standing rules. if there are written rules, would you provide them to the committee, please? >> i will. >> thank you very much. now, senator cornyn ened then you concluded by saying essentially that it's not his problem. it's hillary clinton's problem. then in november on november 6 after mr. comey again made news in late october by re-opening, if you will, the investigation, you said again on fox news, you know, fbi director comey did the right thing

>> not exactly. >> generally. >> that was -- generally i remember those -- >> mr. comey told us when he was here last week that he had a very specific recollection, in fact he chased it down through the intelligence community and was not able to find a scintilla of evidence to that effect. then he told democrats and republicans up here that this was false, there was no such fact anywhere that corroborated what "the new york times" had reported. nonetheless, after that, this committee took data on, one of the things we've spent really substantially more time on that than we have on the russian active measures, we've been through thousands of pages of information, interviewed witnesses, everything else, we're really no different than we were when this whole thing started. and there's been no reports that i know of any factual information in that regard. are you aware of any such information? >> is that what arose from the so-called dossier? i believe that's the report that senator franken hit me with when i was testifying. and it i think has been pretty substantially

attorney general. attorney general kilo stand i will administered the oath to you. raise your right hand please. do you solemnly swear to tell the truth the whole truth and nothing truth and nothing but the truth so help you god? >> i do. >> please be seated. thank you attorney general sessions. the floor is yours. >> thank you very much chairman burr and ranking member warner to allow me to publicly appear before your committee today. i appreciate the committee is critically important efforts to investigate russian interference with our democratic process. such interference can never bene tolerated and i encourage every effort to get to the bottom of any such allegations. as you know the deputy attorney general has appointed a special counsel to investigate thespecil matter related to the russians interference in the 201616 election. i am here today to address t several issues that have beenen specifically raised before this committee.ty and i appreciate the opportunity to respond to questions as fully as the lord enables me to do so but as i advise you mr. chairma

it is a white-hot spotlight will waiting the attorney general, jeff sessions.lligence committee gearing up for the first time in five days, and minutes, the top prosecutor will give is you and all things russian. how much will he cover? how much of the private conversation with the president. deny? all that awaits us. as you listen to his testimony at what he says and does not say could be highly considered significant. good afternoon today. special coverage today. i bill hemmer on the "america's newsroom hq," afternoon version. and here is also >> shannon: 87. >> shannon: this is also more explosive testimony. a lot at stake. about 30 minutes from now.

i spoke to the attorney general and the new deputy attorney general, mr. rosenstein, when he took office and explained my serious concern about the way in which the president is interacting, especially with the f.b.i. as i said in my testimony, told the attorney general it can't happen. that you get kicked out of the room and the president talks to me. in the room -- why didn't we raise the specific? it was an investigative interest to us to try to figure out what just happened with the president's request. so i would not have wanted to alert the white house that it had happened until we figured out what are we going to do with this investigateive -- investigatively. senator collins: your testimony was you went to attorney general sessions and said don't ever leave me alone with him again. e you saying that you also told him that he had made a request that you let it go with regard to part of the investigation on michael flynn? director comey: i did not. senator collins: you mentioned that from your very first meeting with the president you decided to writ

for example, of the 1864 overland campaign he wrote, "i happened to know that generally -- that general only always had leegreatest -- that general always had the greatest anxiety to strike a grant." the two generals often shared a pet thesis in this period, which conferred with the early redemption project. lee hoped he could get "the world to understand the odds against which the confederacy fought." or as he put it in his april 10, 1865 farewell address to the troops appomattox, "after 4 years of service, marked by unsurpassed courage and fortitude, the army of northern virginia has been forced to yield to overwhelming numbers and resources." similarly, early hoped to explain away his defeat in the shenandoah by emphasizing inferior numbers. in the memoir, early said that the long odds he faced in the valley against sheridan were those faced by the confederacy during the whole war. conveniently, this thesis enabled early to mitigate his formerly rough critique of his soldiers. in the memoir, he admitted, "i read a sharp lecture to my troops, but i have never attributed the result to

>> in general, i did. i spoke to the attorney general, and i spoke to the new deputy attorney general mr. rosenstein when he took office and explained my serious concern about the way in which the president is interacting, especially with the fbi. and i specifically as i said in my opinion, i asked the attorney general, it can't happen that you get kicked out of the room and the president talks to me. in the room, and -- but why didn't we raise the specific -- it was an investigative interest to us to try to figure out what just happened with the president's request so i would not have wanted to alert the white house that it had happened until we figured out what are we going to do with this investigatively. >> your testimony was that you went to attorney general sessions and said, don't ever leave me alone with him again. are you saying that you also told him that he had made a request that you let it go, with regard to part of the investigation of michael flynn in. >> no, i specifically did not. i did no

. >> the attorney general doesn't know. the attorney general apparently slept through watergate. "the 11th hour" with brian williams starts now. >>> tonight, a defiant jeff sessions denies clueding with russia while democrats accuse him of impeding the investigation. >>> plus, can the attorney general claim privilege on conversations with donald trump? if the president hasn't an voekted it? a former watergate prosecutor is with us to take that on. >>> and remember this rose garden victory lap over health care a few weeks back, that bill donald trump once called really incredible he is now calling mean. and the boat goes on as "the 11th hour" begins. -- beat goes on as "the 11th hour" begins. good evening once again from our headquarters here in new york. day 145 of the trump administration. it was all eyes on the attorney general today. his testimony today in front of his former senate colleagues was at times heated and combative. at times tedious and deeply unsatisfying. jeff sessions vehemently denied that he clued with russia and with voices raised at one point he and oregon d

>> in general, i did. i spoke to the attorney general and i spoke to the new deputy attorney general when he took office and explained my serious concern about the way in which the president is interacting, especially with the fbi. i specifically told the attorney general, it can't happen that you get kicked out of the room and the president talks to me. in the room -- it was of investigative interest to us to figure out what just happened. i would not have wanted to alert the white house that it had happened until he figured out, what are you going to do with this investigative leak? >> your testimony was that you went to attorney general sessions and said don't ever leave me alone with him again, are you saying that you also told him that he had made a request that you let it go with regard to part of the investigation of michael flynn? >> no, i specifically did not. i did not. >> you mentioned that from your very first meeting with the president, you decided to write a memo memorializing the conversatio

attorney general alberto gonzalez.alez is the dean at belmont university college of law and author of "true faith and allegiance." it is good to have you on the show as always, dean. >> chris, it is a pleasure to be with you. >> so, does the ag have a legal basis for saying i'm not going to answer because i want to preserve the president's right to claim immunity of the same conversations? >> there are a category of conversations with the president that enjoy constitutional protections. there is a normal process where the communications are protected. as a typical matter, generally, you go into a hearing with instructions from the white house as to which conversations the president will assert executive privilege. i understand the frustration. what congress should do now is write a letter to the attorney general saying here are the questions we want you to provide an answer to. either assert privilege or answer the question or suffer the consequences. for my perspective, it is inevitable the questions will have to be a

general and chief lewis with because grant misidentified general kelly as having routed the troopers, to give one example. and in early's narrative, he similarly dressed down the joint committee on the conduct of the war, as it "gave a most preposterous account of atrocities committed upon the union dead and wounded after the battle of first manassas." relying on his personal knowledge and authentic official reports, early convinced the reader that even "federal surgeons left with a wounded could bear testimony to the falsehood of the report." early did not confine his use of primary sourced zingers to his unabashedlyalso corrected those who were friendly to. in a revealing exchange with the man we heard about this morning, captain cook, early quibbled over a footnote from cook's book published in 1870, an account usually regarded as fiction. early is still going to correct your fiction. the findings but net rent "many officers of high character persistently declared that the troops at cedar creek were ordered a halt by general early." the writer was not present, cook admitted. in a l

public service has gotten a bad rap in my generation and i think subsequent generations. i'm old. public service has gotten a bad rap. but forget that. just run for office. we are a small "d" democratic country. our government is of the people, by the people. why not you? why somebody else? why not you? but if you were never persuaded by that argument before, if you never felt motivated to serve your fellow citizens, if you never felt that impulse to shape the future of our country and your community, even if none of that stuff moved you in the past, today, we all got one big fat new, very persuasive reason why we should run for office. you should run for office if you're nosey, because it's the only way to satisfy an acute sense of nosiness. only people who once ran for office and want a seat in the united states senate and got themselves onto the intelligence committee, only those people got to hear the really juicy stuff today. >> what do you know about the russian bank v.e.b.? >> nothing that i can talk about in an open setting. >> was the fbi able to confirm any criminal alle

attorney general sessions has. if you quickly pass through an reception line and shake somebody's hand come and say hello, nice to see them, is that the type of meeting referred to in the inquiry that senator senator franken put you then senator jeff sessions. is it the type of meeting in the senate judiciary committee, which then jeff sessions stated differently, was there an honest, misunderstanding on the part of jeff sessions of what was being asked about? i believe, and i think most of our colleagues do, these meetings were routine, mundane, and inaccurate nests. the question is where they truly discussed and revealed where he was under oath. in 20 minutes, 50 mins, we are going to have a spectacle of us sitting attorney general of the united states. a former united states senator being accused by some of his former colleagues, democrats, of having perjured himself in another environment when he was a united states senator. unheard of and almost thinkable. that is the first thing he has to resist before he eve

lou: deputy attorney general rod rosenstein testified ahead of attorney general jeff sessions. testified the apoint of a special counsel despite growing conflicts of interstating he sees no reason to fire mueller. >> under the regulation special counsel mueller may be fired only for good cause. if there were good cause, i would fire him. if there wasn't, it wouldn't matter what anyone says. lou: senator manchin point out the president could fire rosenstein for any reason at all. it doesn't matter he could still fire rosenstein and that might just lead to the firing if the president so desired, robert mueller. joining me now, constitutional law professor at south texas college of law. josh blackman. it's always good to see you. why is the attorney general making a statement like that that he knows to be certainly -- sort of suggests it's not not a unittary president which means the president has absolute control over the executive branch. >> the fact of the matter is the president is unittary and has the ultimate authority to control prosecutions. if he ordered rose' tine to fir

, the deputy attorney general, the deputy attorney general, the deputy attorney general, do you havedent, the three conversations in which you told him that he was not under investigation. the first was during yourjanuary this sixth meeting according to your testimony, in which it appears you actually volunteered that insurance, is that correct? that is correct. did you limit that statement to counterintelligence investigations or were you counterintelligence investigations or were you talking about any kind of fbi investigation?” or were you talking about any kind of fbi investigation? i didn't use the term counterintelligence, i was speaking to him and beating him about some salacious and unverified material. it was in the context of that that he had a strong and defensive reaction about that not being true, and my reading was that it was important for me to assure him we were not personally investigating him and said the context then was actually narrower, focused on what i had talked to him about, but it was important because it was first true and second i was very much about bei

attorney general eric holder. holders investigation comes after managers and employees were fired last week for claims of harassment, discrimination and bullying. recommendations are presented in sunday's board meeting. the board voted unanimously to adopt the investigations which include a new human resources process training and someone michael. it comes at a time of personal and professional turmoil. the 4-year-old mother died in a boating accident at the end of the night and his father is seriously injured. just last week a racing memo sent to her employees in 2013 is late. kalanick was seen yelling at the cooper driver. cooper has not issued anything so far. cheryl: how do you think will learn more about this investigations? >> we're expecting to get a closer look at what changes could be made. lauren: a lot to do. trained to look at what happened with myspace. the cultural management problem. thank you. lauren: the federal reserve to raise short-term interest rates again this week in the face of historically

>> the attorney general recusal on public record and don that attacked and -- acting attorney general and actually does not know what we are investigating. >> so what appears to be the only comment jeff sessions made on this on march 2nd march 2nd, 2017 i decided to recuse myself for any matters related in any way to the president of the united states. so to understand the extent there may be counterintelligence investigation with those criminal investigations so who decides where the line is? and then to have a multiple process going on in those that was engaged in those measures against us. and there is no clarity from what he is recused from. >> can we do have clarity because those that made that determination and that official works in the deputy's office. >> so can you tell the public what the attorney general has recused from? director and trying to explain that would be inappropriate for me because we don't talk that subject matter while they are ongoing. that is what the prosecutors are doing. so with the public agency here is the delineation and also a process that we could d

the he's the attorney general. they work on more than just the 2016 investigation. >> other committees do want to question jeff sessions as well, including the senate judiciary committee. chairman chuck grassley from iowa telling me earlier today that he does want to hear from sessions himself before his committee as they look into the broader russia issue in their own panel going forward. >> is there any more still to come with the attorney general sessions and the senate intelligence committee? >> it's unclear at the moment. this testimony that happened today really caught the committee by surprise. sessions offered on saturday to come before this committee. on tuesday the committee was really looking forward to having other big witnesses come forward first, namely the president's son-in-law jared kushner. they're planning on interviewing him this month. they were not prepared for session's testimony to happen so soon. sessions said today that he probably could not disclose more in a classified setting. it's uncl

>> not exactly. >> generally? >>s generally i remember those charges. >> mr. comey told us that he had a specific recollection.nc in fact he chased it down through the intelligence community and not able to find a sin tilla of evidence. no such facts anywhere that corroborated with what "the new york times" reported. nonetheless after this committee took that on is one of the things that we spent more time on that than we have on the russian act of measures. we have been through thousands of pages of information. ander we are no different than where we were when this whole thing started and no reports that i know of ofar any factual information. >>m is that arose from the dossier? >> well anywhere. >> i believe that is the report that senator franken hit me with when i was testifying. and i think it has been substantially discredited. but you wouldld know more than am but what was said that would suggest that i participate in continuing communications with the russians as a surrogate is absolutely false. >> t mr. sessions, there has be all ofru this talk about

guest: i am not the attorney general and i have never been the attorney general, but i have been involved in cases and i know when you have to avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest. what should have happened on that tarmac is that when bill clinton came up the steps, despite the fact that he is the ex-president, the attorney general should have said to him, i'm sorry, because we cannot speak because your wife is the target of a fbi investigation and the director of the fbi reports to me. in and, she invites him they have a discussion and we don't know about what. that was something she should not have done because she had every duty to avoid the appearance of impropriety. our guest served in the civil rights division of the justice department, a graduate -- a graduate of the vanderbilt school of law. calls.et to your phone juanita, cincinnati, democrats line. caller: i'm going to assume this conversation is about the veracity of mr. comey and the president. frankly, as a democrat, i was very ticked and mr. comey, last year. is far as theand, heritage foundation goes, when mr. tru

>> is a general propositionsts. tried to make that investigation go away isio spiring be fbi director going to make that happen?. >> that doesn't make sense to me but i am biased.el >> by a understand it is personal spending given the nature of the fbi there a lot of bad things about me not being at the fbi.ad >> that impeded the investigation for the directors commitment and with the department ofof justice?. >> director mahler is an important part of that equation.f >> u.s. bank assets as a hero or a villain depending on the perspective during the clinton e-mail investigation and. e-mail but clearly were troubled by the conduct of this sitting attorney general lynch with a clique -- e-mail characterization the youth have been asked to except it is a matter not a criminalsk investigation it was a matter of president clinton's meeting on a the tarmac with a sittingto attorney general when his wife was subject to a criminal investigation to be subject to other matters in a classified setting but it seems to me you cl

the president could ask the attorney general and in this cases the actliing attorney general, rod rosenstein because the attorney general has recused himself, but special counsel rules say it would have to be for cause. you could just imagine the type of debate that would ensue if rosenstein fired comey -- sorry, fired mueller and if that cause was valid or not. >> if muller and comey ever socialized together or pald around together, i have no reason to think they have or not, this is a very small town, that might be cause enough. farther down the road. ken, thank you for joining us. >> thank you, greta. >> with me, senator patrick leahy from the great state of vermont demanding republicans postpone a hearing with the appropriations committee until the attorney general sessions testifies. good evening, senator. >> good evening. >> attorney general sessions was supposed to be a witness before the appropriations committee tomorrow. what happened. >> he said twice he would be there. both times he went back. he was not there. it would be very unusual for the attorney general not to come and test

because he's the attorney general. i don't know whether he had any contact with any materials. >> was there any knowledge he should not have contact with any information about the russia investigation between the february 14th date and the day he was ultimately recused or recused himself on march 2nd? >> not to my knowledge. i don't know one way or another. >> did you speaking to the attorney general about the russia investigation before his recusal? >> i don't think so. no. >> do you know if anyone in the fbi department forwarded any documents or information or memos of any sort to the attention of the attorney general before his recusal? >> i don't know of any, remember any sitting here. it's possible but i don't remember any. >> do you know if the attorney general was involved in any aspect of the russia investigation after his recusal on the 2nd of march? >> i would assume not. i don't know of any information that would lead me to believe he did something to touch the russia investigation after the recusal. >> in y

>> not exactly. >> generally? >> generally i remember those charges. >> mr. comey told us that when he was here last week, he had a very specific recollection. he chased it down through the intelligence committee. then he sought out both republicans and democrats to tell them that this was false, there was no such facts anywhere that cob rated with what "the new york times" reported. nonetheless, after this committee took that on one of the things we spent more time on that than we have on the russia active measures, we have been through thousand of pages of information, no different than where we were when this whole thing started. are you aware of any such information from collusion? >> is that from the dossier in. >> i believe that's the report that senator franken hit me when i was testifying and i think has been substantially. continuing communications with russians as a surrogate is absolutely false. >> mr. sessions, there's been all this talk about conversations and you had some conversations with the russians, senators up here on either foreign relati

we're asking your thoughts on president trump's relations with his generals, his reliance on generals. 202-748-8001 for republicans. democrats, 202-748-8000. independents and others, 202-748-8002. also for afghanistan vets, that line is 202-748-80034. let's hear from marvin in philadelphia. good morning, democrats line. caller: yeah, i think that he needs to trust our allies and our military and trust himself, too. i think that it's a three stage. you cannot be basically willing to fight all the time. you've got to be able to have three ways on everything. hell snow host: yeah, we're here, marvin. so do you think that the president is right in the direction he's going in terms of asking -- you're saying allies, asking nato, for example, to contribute more to the defense effort? caller: yes, i think so. in a way that they're going to ontribute more, not going over , but in a way they're going to contribute more. host: let's go to our afghanistan vets line, pennsylvania. owen, welcome. caller: good morning. host: good morning. caller: i just want to say that i'm an afghan vet, infantrym

what did the deputy attorney general say? >> roadsenstein said he would not fire mueller unless there was cause. heed there would have to be good cause and it's not an action he would take unless it was lawful and appropriate. this was something a number of senators, including republican senator, lindsey graham pressed him on. >> do you know of any reason or cause to fire mr. mueller as of this date? >> no, i do not, senator. >> and that would be your decision if that ever happened? >> that's correct. >> and your going to make it and nobody else? >> it would be my responsibility. >> and rosenstein explained the process by which that would happen. he said he would be the one to put it in writing. so this is something he would have to sign his name on to and he said if there was not good cause, that it would not matter to him what anybody says. he seemed to be saying that the buck stopped with him and he wasn't going to bend to any influence. >> did he say anything about his memo about director -- then director of the fbi comey

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you are here instead of the attorney general, and you are here as acting attorney general with regard to the special counsel, and you exercised the higher and would exercise the final decision with regards to special counsel bob mueller. that's because attorney general sessions is recused from that matter. on may 9, you delivered a memo to stoig sessions entitled rye storing public confidence -- restoring public confidence. your memo focused on director comey's conduct during the clinton email investigation. the way the director handled that investigation was wrong and you ultimately stated having to refuse to admit his errors, he could not be expected to implement the corrective actions is that correct? mr. rosenstein: yes. senator coons: on that same day attorney general sessions then sent a memo to president trump relying on your memo where the attorney general recommends director comey be removed, is that correct? mr. rosenstein: i believe that's correct. senator coons: during his january 10 confirmation hearing, a.g. sessions said stated he would recuse himself from any matters i

i think generic drug sthing a huge issue. and to get these high need generics out i think is something we should all try to achieve. but you also need to be realistic on a manpower and budget that takes. it's important. can you rest assured i'd be happy to work with you. >> and not only me, but this entire subcommittee on your budget. i would love to get your recommendations. like i said, i think this is an incredible driver in health care and figure out ways to reduce costs. generics are a bright light over the last 15, 20 years. and so we see hedge fund folks buying the prescription drugs that senator collins talked about, we have to block that whether it's your agency or some other agency. >> right. we're going contemplate this very issue in the authorization that's before congress right now. >> all right. thank you. now i want to talk about importation of prescription drugs. there's been all sorts of efforts over the last 20 years that i know of from montana hauling bus loads of folks into canada to buy prescription drugs

. >> my sense was the attorney general knew he shouldn't be leaving which was why he was linger. >> the massive question facing the attorney general as sessions prepares to testify before a surprise hearing less than this hours from now. as the special counsel hires more fire power. >> i think he's considering perhaps terminating the special counsel. >> the growing group of republicans trying to get robert mueller fired, comey was not allowed, what we learned when he broke his silence. >> when i've been reading the stories about how he's been contacting jim comey over time, like deja vu. >> mitch mcconnell and republicans are planning to spring on american sight unseen, all in starts right now. >> and what now may be an investigation to criminal obstruction of justice, attorney general, jeff sessions, the nations top law enforcement officer will testify less than 24 hours from now before an open session, senate intelligence committee. sessions appearance tomorrow at 2:30 p.m. comes just five days after fired fbi director james comey sat before the same committee and accuse the president

coming up next, you're going to hear from the consul general of israel, dr.dy david and whether practice of tikkun olam is a global example of building bridges of friendship. >> "repair the world," working in places like africa, like latin american, like asia. so wherever there's a need, if it's agriculture, food security public health, gender issues, small to medium enterprises just helping people to create their livelihood... >> my next guest is dr. andy david, the honorable consul general of israel to the pacific northwest and a long-time friend and colleague. we've worked together raising awareness about a lot of issues. how important is it for the american president to have a good relationship with the prime minister of israel? >> well, i think it's very important for both countries. we are friends, we are allies, and it's their duty to be in a friendly relationship and good relationship because we need to get a lot of things done. >> it's been a struggle over the past few years. >> well, there have been ups and downs, a lot of agreements, and a few disa

i think most people don't believe the attorney general. i don't think they believe he's telling the truth. i think he's evading, he's very careful. he's a lawyer he knows what he can't say, unlike trump who says pretty much whatever he feels like and has other people clean up the mess afterwards. >> i think 50% of the country believes sessions and 50% doesn't. we're pretty divided in this country. >> i'm surprised at that, the vast majority of the people do not believe donald trump. >> we'll see what happens in the next couple weeks. governor, thank you for joining us. >> thanks a lot nor having me on, greta. >> thanks. who should you believe, key differences between what the attorney general testified and what the former fbi director testified. look closely. hidden in every swing, every chip, and every putt, is data that can make the difference between winning and losing. the microsoft cloud helps the pga tour turn countless points of data into insights that transform their business and will enhance the game for players and fans. the micr

when the attorney general has recused him then it would be the deputy attorney general.orney general who chose robert mueller. that's the only person who can fire him. the president cannot. >>> moments ago the "new york times" reported that president trump has been thinking about firing robert mueller. quote, behind the scenes, the president soon began entertaining the idea of firing mr. muellerings even as his staff tried to discourage him from something they believed would turn a bad situation into a catastrophe according to several people with direct knowledge of mr. trump's interactions. for now, the staff has prevailed. so is robert mueller's job safe? that's the question. next. its partners are using smart traps to capture mosquitoes and sequence their dna to fight disease. there are over 100 million pieces of dna in every sample. with the microsoft cloud, we can analyze the data faster than ever before. if we can detect new viruses before they spread, we may someday prevent outbreaks before they begin. i know you worry i can't keep up with our weekly tee times. de

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the generals came and talked about it being a national security issue. now, the secretary of defense former general mattis told us in written testimony in january that climate change is impacting stability in areas of the world where our troops are operating today. has triggeredisis drought, famine, and other devastating environmental changes that spark political turmoil and wind up with refugees. even trump's team knows that climate change is a national security threat. again, we have the testimony that goes back to 2007, 10 years ago. we've known that. it's an economic issue. andreds of businesses executive support the record, including energy companies like exxon mobil, several members of trump's business council resigned yesterday in protest of his decision. trump says he is putting america's jobs first, but the accord would have created an explosion of green energy jobs for the future. keep america preeminent and number one for the jobs of the future is essential unless the world moves to replace that recognizes the danger of climate crisis. it's a

with any other attorney general, we might be able to predict what the attorney general would do. if the president wanted the special prosecutor fired. what we do know is that from the start, president trump has behaved not like a politician who is concerned with how things look and how they will look in the next election, he has behaved as senator franken said like he has something to hide, something big. and we know a lot about jeff sessions, but not enough to predict what he will do if the president orders the firing of the special prosecutor. and so tonight the investigation of the president and his associates has hit another stunning suspense point. will the special prosecutor be fired? it was a question that rod rosenstein thought he could ignore last week. and most of the media thought it could be ignored last week when kamala harris asked about that. but tonight here we are. it's the question of the night. and we don't know what attorney general jeff sessions will do. we don't know if he will do the right thing and stand up to the president. this might be the night when je

>> not exactly. >> generally? >> but generally i remember those charges. >> mr.old us when he was here last week that he had a very specific recollection. in fact, he chased it down through the intelligence community and was not able to find that evidence and then sought out both republicans and democrats up here to tell them that this was false. that there was no such facts anywhere, that corroborated what "the new york times" had reported. nonetheless, after that, this committee took that on and we have spent really substantially more time on that than we have on the russian active measures. we've been through thousands of pages of information, interviewed witnesses and everything else. we're really no different than where we were when this whole thing started. but there's been no reports that i know of of any factual information in that regard. are you aware of any such information of collusion? >> that arose from the so-called dossier, senator risch? >> well, anywhere. >> i believe that's the report that senator franken hit me with when i was testifying and i

i was the acting attorney general. i'm sure i had discussions with subordinate officials about whether to call something a matter or an investigation, and i'm not saying this wasn't significant, but it seems to me it kind of got blown out of proportion if that's the justification for the july proceeding. >> woodruff: john carlin, how do you see this? >> we know the russians are going to try to attack us again. they tried to undermine confidence in the integrity of our election, it's been reaffirmed today and it's been reaffirmed by every national intelligence security firm, and they're going to do it as early as 2018. when you think about the clinton investigation, the russian investigation, it was extraordinarily difficult for the political appointees to make a decision calling out investigations, particularly when they have to do with the interference of the election. what i worry about going into 2018, we're in for a worse shape right now in having a credible official who can call out russian meddling in our electio