magoo.e loves it. people here in the white house are saying, stop, i'm laughing so hard, i can't take it anymore, i resign. >> that's very funny, mr. president, but i'm not going anywhere. i'm like skunk stink on a bird dog, sir. i linger! and i just had dinner with all your friends at the department of justice and, wow, your name popped up more than a weasel in a pumpkin patch! >> "snl's" spoof comes after news this week that the president has nicknamed his attorney general mr. magoo. here now is jeanne moos. >> reporter: the president who once said he was proud to call jeff sessions attorney general now calls him mr. magoo. according to the "washington post," president trump privately refers to sessions as the bumbling cartoon character so near-sighted, he mistakes a mounted moose for a man. >> is this hodgepodge lodge? >> reporter: cue the split screens, they're now all over the internet, as someone imagined mr. magoo himself saying, turn on the tweeter, baby, i'm trending. someone else z

magoo?ng to the "washington post," president trump privately refers to sessions as the bumbling cartoon character so nearsighted he m nearsighted he mistakes a moose for a man. someone imagining mr. magoo saying turn on the tweeter. someone declared magoo declare i will not be compared to that him in come pop. millennials are saying magoo who? the original magoo was created by left-winging animators, ripping on conservatism in the era of hollywood black listing. president trump is catching flak for using the childish nickname. our cartoon president, read one comment. from comedians, yes, i would laugh. from a president, well, that's not leadership. comedians like steven colbert. >> attorney general jeff sessions. >> reporter: and a resemblance to the keebler elf. >> to the quick, to the quick i say! to my delicious fudgy center. >> reporter: and snl's kate mckinnon plays him like a possum like creature. >> oh, no,ive dropped my loofah. >> reporter: sure, mitch mcconnell has been compared to

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magoo. >> that's terrible.ng. >> that's of course a reference to the optically challenged crotch ety cartoon character created by sub versive cartoonist, the conservatism of the mccarthy era. >> by jupiter, if you're not on your toes, they'll stick you every time. >> we doubt that's what president trump was referring to. probably trying to highlight sessions' stubbornness, like magoo refuses to bow down to authority. >> demand for complete satisfaction, that clear? >> or sessions' kfrds? >> i like a young man with ambiti ambition, confidence in his product. >> reporter: regardless of the visions, envisioning sessions as mr. magoo and high jinkz that ensue is really what the president was going for. >> twinkle toes magoo. >> and extremely wealthy kru muj oj who always ends up on top. whom does that actually describe? >> magoo, they can't bam boozele you. you never lost a fight yet. >> you're in the cnn newsroom. thanks for being here on this sunday. we begin with the president letting loose at the washington bla

magoo. mr.oo is an old, incompetent rich guy who gets himself in trouble through ineptitude and short sightedness. and yet, through sheer luck and blind confidence, never seems to face any consequences. you the magoo! [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] magoo. we're only a little more than a year into the trump administration and what we've seen is truly staggering of corruption. the president's wildly unqualified son-in-law is taking meetings in the white house that result in millions in private loans, while trump publicly berates his own attorney general for not investigating his political opponents. and on top of that, the russia investigation is getting closer and closer to the president himself. and if trump does ever get indicted, i think i know what he'll say. >> oh, magoo, you've done it again! [ laughter ] >> seth: this has been "a closer look." ♪ [ cheers and applause ] we'll be right back with joel edgerton, everybody! [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> announcer: for more of seth's "close

magoo, jeff sessions a alabama senator loyal to president trump since the beginning, the first senator to sign on with him but he's on the out with trump since he recused himself from the russia investigation last year and it is anyone's guess how much time he's got left on the job. i want to bring in someone who knows a lot about the president's inner circle. chris whipple, the author of the book "the gatekeepers house the white house chief of staff define every presidency" and i was at the airport and saw the new version of the book which has stuff on reince priebus in it. chris, it sounds now that john kelly was not in the loop about the firing of rex tillerson and certainly in the way that it was done. and we thought that he was on the outs and different reporting indicates that maybe he and the president came to a truce. should you be coming to a truce with your chief of staff? >> well, this is a -- a love-hate relationship with kelly and it continues to be that. steve bannon in the interview for my new paper back told me

magoo.gton post," president trump privately refers to sessions as the bumbling cartoon character so near sighted he mistakes a mounted moose for a man. >> is this hodge poj lodge? >> cue the split screens, they are now all over the internet as someone imagined mr. magoo saying turn on the tweeter i'm trending and others having magoo declare i'm not being compared to that thinken pop. he was created in 1949, millennials are saying magoo who? the original created by left leaning anmaters rifting on corn conservatism and president trump is catching flack for using the childish nickname, our cartoon president, read one comic, from comedians, i would laugh. from the president, that's not leadership. comedians like stephen colbert -- >> please welcome attorney general jeff sessions. >> >> thank you. >> some see a resemblance to the keebler elf. >> these insults co s tut m s c quick to my fudgy center. >> and kate mckin none plays him as an o possom like creature. >> my trusty little tail will get

magoo. >> that's terrible. >> that's, of course, a reference to the optically challenged crotchety cartoon character kraecreated by subver cartoonists. >> they'll stick you every time. >> but we doubt that's what president trump is referring to. he was probably trying to highlight sessions' stubbornness. like magoo, he refuses to bow down to authority. >> i demand complete satisfaction. is that clear? >> or maybe it's sessions' confidence. >> i like a young man with ambition and confidence in his product. >> regardless of the reasons, envisions sessions as mr. magoo and the hijinx that ensue is probably what he had in mind. then again, magoos an extremely wealth curmudgeon who's never wrong and always ends up on top. whom does that actually describe? >> they can't bamboozle you. you never lost a fight yet. >> she has mostly kept her opinions to herself until now. what does former secretary of state condoleezza rice really think about president trump? she opens up next. most people come to la with big dreams...

magoo. why? because the attorney general stood up for himself, vowing to do something to provide integrity. going to dinner in public with his deputy rod rosenstein, who oversees the work of the special counsel. or oversees the witch hunt, as the president would put it. the "washington post" reporting that bob mueller's special counsel is asking witnesses at the president's previous runs at firing sessions. we have phil mattingly and jackie cosenich with "the daily beast." there is a lot going on at the white house. hope hicks is leaving. let's start here with how important this is. not the first time the president has gone after his attorney general. but when you connect the dots and you see jeff sessions publicly asserting his independence, asserting his integrity and then going to dinner with rod rosenstein? that's sending a message back to the boss. >> it may be actually the right message to send to the boss. the president tends to like to go on the attack, and then when you push back, m

. >>> a magoo specialty. hey, 1, 2, 3. what's the meaning of this?f you want to cut in, a little tap on the shoulder is enough. >> washington post reports today president trump has told associates that he has hired the best lawyers for his entire life but is stuck with sessions now who is not defending him and not sufficiently loyal hence the name mr. magoo, the cartoon character. he has humiliated sessions on twitter, remarks and interviews. last night sessions at dinner at a restaurant. a source close to sessions said it was not intended to be a show of solidarity against the president, but those three men makeup the line of succession when it comes to who is in charge of a mueller investigation. and speaking of bob mueller, today the post is reporting that mueller -- the mueller investigation examining trump's apparent efforts to oust sessions in july. in recent months mueller's team has questioned witnesses in detail about trump's private comments and state of mind. in late july and early august of last year around the time he issued a series of

magoo. >> i always thought mr. magoo was kind of sweet. anyway, that's just my personal remembrance of him. >> i don't think president trump thinks jeff sessions is very sweet. >> i guess he doesn't like mr. magoo either. thanks very much. >> thanks for having me. >> when it comes to political investigative reporting, bob woodward and carl bernstein set the standard. their work for "the washington post" during the watergate scandal played a huge role in the downfall of president nixon. their reporting worn the pulitzer prize and their landmark book became a landmark movie. on this night of a great deal of breaking news, i'm very happy to have both of them with me in washington. thanks for being with us. first of all, what do you make of the "washington post" report that the special counsel is now looking at -- or asking questions at least about president trump's beratement of his own attorney general last summer? >> well, it would be logical that they would. and if you talk to people who go and they're interviewed by mueller's people, lots

magoo. he wasn't aware? are you kidding? he was a real mr. magoo. you remember the cartoon, right? the marshals would lead berger around and he was unaware of anything that was not 3 feet in front of him. he did a brief imitation of the mr. magoo character. justice scalia did a silly walk as if holding a cane, squinting as he went. he went bumble along oblivious of everything. we laughed and he resumed his normal gait. justice scalia started to get into the marshall's car and the marshall was with him at the door. as i was going behind the car to get in the other side justice scalia fell to the ground and rolled. he was utterly silent. i saw him on the ground and went to help, he had not gotten entirely into the seat when he began turning and slid out instead of in. our waiter who had been lingering in the distance rushed toward him at the same time but didn't touch him. with the marshall i pulled him into the backseat, the marshall seemed embarrassed. are you okay? i am okay. i guess i wasn't very careful. i got in the backseat with him. no broken bones? check your knees, wrists a

magoo and so on. it's unclear how long these two can work together, but one thing we have to keep in mind, wolf, is that president trump considers him one of the big name supporters on his staff. he has one very prominently stephen miller who works here at the. it's very clear that jeff sessions has gotten under the president's skin, wolf. >> jeff sergsz. the president has called the attorney general an idiot, beleagured, and disgraceful. sessions still on the job. we'll see how long that lasts. >>> the resignation of hope hicks will and adds to the chaos of the west wing. director anthony scaramucci was on the job for ten days and he says morale was bad and getting worse. >> what do you think? what do you think is going on? >> morale, people afraid to talk to each other -- >> coming from the president snt. >> noment i think it was a chief of staff. if the current situation and the current culture r. there is literally more change and a lot more departers. more than a couple. carrie correspodero, hirs

magoo. do you think he will last much longer?very few weeks it seems to happen. >> you know, i worry that this president goes into a free fall periodically in which it's very hard to know exactly what's going to happen. we elect presidents to provide stability to this country, to make very clear what their policy is going to be and to provide a degree of certainty. this president develops chaos on almost every issue. i mean here we have, you know, i think we have a strong economy. in the middle of a strong economy he decide to go with tariffs that send the market down 500 points and creates tremendous uncertainty with regards to where our economy is going. it is the opportunity to develop certain measures in the congress to try to deal with that. yesterday's session creates greater uncertainty about where this president stands. almost issue after issue, area after area particularly now with the attorney who represents the chief law enforcement officer in the country, responsible for enforcing our laws, responsible for enforcing o

magoo. mr. magoo was an aggressive guy who took action. elmer fudd maybe. lou: sessions. the world are we doing here? >> i'm not sure what is happening anywhere. this is when i get concerned. we have a constitution. let's follow it. let's move on when we haven't found anything. it's a fact-finding mission for truth. it's not a mission to find something that doesn't exist. it's not and creation mission. mark report dinner last night with sessions was ridiculous theatrics. among all his allies, two people across from the trump teurs. lou: some would say his masters. i love the moronic response from people who don't understand economics. talking about a trade war. our trade partners might retaliate. these disinformed unenlightened folks don't understand, china and germany are launching a trade war against us now. and this president is the only whown has had the guts to stand up. >> some people said the world trade organization will decide on this. in china the particular companies are being completely closed in. so why can't we do what we want regarding aluminum and steel. l

magoo. >> dates him and us, probably. he is subtly implying sessions will -- >> you were treating your own take on this. there once was a man called magoo who knew the right thing to do. though trump threw a fit he refused to quit and went out to dinner with his crew. we have shown that picture. you had another one, also. there once was a woman named hope, who worked for a really big dope. this is bill kristol, not me. for him she had told white lies her lawyer judged not very wise so when he asked her to stay, she said nope. >> probably shouldn't tweet late at night. >> i probably shouldn't read it on television. >> thank you, that was really great. i was also stuck by that dinner at that restaurant. >> let's see that picture again. >> right across from main justice. >> also right across from trump international. >> that's interesting. a lot of the justice people go there, it's a block or two away. it was really striking he goes and has dinner with rosenstein or the solicitor general. that

magoo. he was not aware? he was a real mr. magoo. i remember the cartoon. the marshals would lead burger around and he was unaware of everything that was not 3 feet in front of him and he did a brief imitation of the mr. magoo character. really? yes. he did a silly walk as if holding a cane squinting he would bumble along. oblivious of everything we laughed and then he resumed his normal date. justice leah started to get into the marshals car anna marshall was with him at the door as i was going behind the car to get on the other side he fell to the ground and rolled and utterly silent i saw him on the ground it seemed he had not gotten entirely onto the seat when he began to turn and he slid out our waiter who was lingering rushed toward him at the same time as i but did not touch him but with the marshall i pulled him into the backseat the marshall seemed embarrassed. are you okay nino? he said i'm a cam guess i'm not very careful i ran around to get in the backseat check your knees and your wrist and fingers i gently squeezed both knees to make sure he w

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magoo they call me. >> although magoo is a wealthy curmudgeon who never admits he's wrong and somehow't bamboozle you. you never lost a fight yet. >> she has mostly kept her opinions to herself until now. what does former secretary of state condoleezza rice really think about president trump? she opens up next. hi, i'm bob harper, and i recently had a heart attack. it changed my life. but i'm a survivor. after my heart attack, my doctor prescribed brilinta. it's for people who have been hospitalized for a heart attack. brilinta is taken with a low-dose aspirin. no more than 100 milligrams as it affects how well brilinta works. brilinta helps keep platelets from sticking together and forming a clot. in a clinical study, brilinta worked better than plavix. brilinta reduced the chance of having another heart attack... ...or dying from one. don't stop taking brilinta without talking to your doctor, since stopping it too soon increases your risk of clots in your stent, heart attack, stroke, and even death. brilinta may cause bruising or bleeding more easily, or serious, sometimes fatal ble

magoo was on right after "polio pooch." simpler times. ( audience reacts ) anyway, mueller is trying to figure out whether insults like these were an attempt by trump "to publicly shame the attorney general into quitting." joke's on you, mr. president. you can't defeat jeff sessions with insults. the only way to get him to leave is to answer his riddles. "what walks on four legs in the morning, two legs at noon, and three legs in the evening? wrong! the answer is 'i do not recall!'" ( cheers and applause ) we've got a great show for you for you tonight. jeff daniels is here. but when we return, we debut what may be the world's worst rap video. stick around! ( cheers and applause ) ( band playing ) ♪ join t-mobile and the whole family can stay connected with new iphones. which is great... ...unless your parents thought you were studying. aren't exams this week? somebody's busted. so join t-mobile, buy an iphone 8, get an iphone 8 on us. and for a limited time, bring your family to t-mobile and get a 4th line free. only at t-

magoo. this time, sessions is responding, forcefully.nn's laura jarrett. >> reporter: after months of public attacks by the president and too many tweets to count, the attorney general hit back. the rare statement from jeff sessions hours after the president essentially called him a disgrace and took a shot at the inspector general. the internal watch dog at the department of justice. sessions said as long as i'm the attorney general, i will continue to discharge my duties with honor and this department will continue to do its work in a fair and impartial manner. according to the law and constitution. the back drop to this drama is on tuesday, sessions told reporters that the inspector general will deal with the allegations outlined in the house intelligence committee republican memo. the so-called nunes memo outlining surveillance abuses by the fbi surveilling carter page. the former trump associate. he said he would make sure that the inspector general would make sure the process was carried out appropriately. that was clearly not good

magoo in private, yes, mr. magoo.ashed yet another joke at the white tie grid iron dinner last night. mr. trump reportedly told the crowd he had offered his attorney general a ride to the event, but he recused himself. here's former white house chief of staff reince priebus weighing in this morning. >> the president has made up his mind in regard to how he feels about the recusal. he feels like that was the first sin, the original sin, and he feels slighted by it. he doesn't like it. and he's not going to let it go. >> so, eli, jeff sessions and the president, is this a relationship that is getting better, getting worse, is it a stand still of negativity? >> oh, it's gotten worse. i don't know where it is. seems like a game of chicken now, right? the president insults jeff sessions. the attorney general goes out at somewhat less subtly than the president, not very subtle, has this dinner in a public place. this is basically a response to the president. that's how people have to communicate with the president. they don

forget about all the magoo stuff and all that, although that was a pretty good insult. i like a nice insult, make no mistake about that. the he president and i grew up in the same place. insults are high currency. they say you can't trust the people or the process. that's dangerous well beyond politics. >> this is how he treats his friends and earlierest allies. >> and institutions. >> that is the larger erosion in institutions. the call is coming from inside the house, the white house. >> you're too young. when you're home and the phone call from inside the house. the babysitter. >> sit terrifying. >> years of therapy. >> okay. according to the "new york times" i believe in early 2017 after the inauguration, a private equity billionaire started paying regular visits to the white house. he was interested in a white house job. then in november of that year that private equity firm sent $184 million to kushner's real estate firm to refinance his mortgage. >> which was much larger than your typical bridge financing. >> it doesn't get swampier than that. paying for access.

magoo. >> kimberly: who should be managing it, greg? >> greg: i am busy.e is chaos. we can see it. this is the most transparent entity since brian's hair. you can go see everything going on in the white house. makes it look like there is more chaos. what i find interesting is how the media views donald trump as this incredibly divisive character when he has the most amorphous politics you could ever imagine. he is all over the place on immigration, guns, and trade. guns come as you point out, trade as you point out, and even with immigration. it's because he's a populist nonideologue which confuses people like us to play a team sport politics who believe there is a right and left and set ideologies. he has more in common, and this may be bad but it may be good, but he may have more in common with the average apolitical citizen who, when they hear an idea, they like that idea. but they also like that idea. both ideas might contradict each other. but he listens to both of them. to him and the average, a political citizen, politics is a buffet and you walk in

magoo. >> yeah, that's right.e understand he really kind of rips into the attorney general all the time in private, including in really demeaning ways, comparing him to that cartoon of the kind of bumbling elderly guy, mr. magoo. rosalind helderman. >>> joining me now former federal prosecutor michael zeldin. thanks for being with us. you say one of the key issues here in terms of the legal consequences is to determine whether there was a corrupt intent with the president's thinking, what he was trying to do with jeff sessions and whether or not you can prove there was an effort to interfere with an official proceeding. explain. >> so the way the law of obstruction of justice works is the prosecutor has to prove essentially two things. one, the person who is the obstruct tore is acting with corrupt intent, meaning not accidentally, and two, that they're doing so in an effort to interfere with an ongoing investigation. so mueller has to determine whether or not on these questions about what sessions was being badge

magoo.he white house chaos is something trump's rivals warned about in the campaign. >> donald, you know, is great at the one-liners. he's a chaos candidate. he'd be a chaos president. he would not be the commander in chief we need to keep our country safe. >> reporter: even when the president tries substance, he raises eyebrows like advocating the death penalty for drug dealers, the punishment handed out in less democratic countries. >> the drug dealers, drug pushers, they are really doing damage. they are really doing damage. some countries have a very, very tough penalty, the ultimate penalty. >> reporter: conservatives are still cringing after the president's comments on gun control saying firearms should be taken from mentally ill people before there's due process. >> take guns first, due process second. >> reporter: nra did not like the sound of that. >> among the things nra leadership stressed to the president sunday is due process has been to be respected. >> reporter: now, the white

magoo," and from the washington post, the nickname president trump gave to his attorney general.es say behind the scenes, president trump is fuming and indignant after attorney general sessions respond to the president's twitter attack with acts of defiance, daring the president to fire him in a statement he put out defending priorities, and sessions was seen dining in the company of rosenstein in the justice official supervising the russian probe after sessions rekscued himself. this caused staffers to give his boss a bullet proof vest as a tongue in cheek gag gift. our panel is back with me. mr. magoo, that's not a nice thing to say about the attorney general. >> it's not. >> you can get rid of him. >> yeah, but he'd risk more if te did, a he did. good for ag sessions to stand up. he was the first republican senator to endorse him, and this is how he repays him? it was one thing to be disappointed in somebody who works for you, but another thing to malign them, and makel publi. have those conversations behind closed doors, not in tweets to the open world. >> his former colleagu

magoo, that bumbling character. sessions told associates he had been wounded by the attacks, but he insists he's not going to resign. this sort of heated cold war continues. >> let's talk about somebody else who did resign, hope hicks. she did not resign one day after testifying because something specifically happened there. from all reporting, this has been leading up, this has been going on for months. her closest allies in the white house were rob porter. we know how that turned out. and while she's close with jared, ivanka and donald trump, she also knew they protect themselves first. it was simply time for her to go. >> the bottom line we're hearing is this is something in the works for a while. she's been thinking about this, she was both the most emotionally and physically drained. the president said to be sad to have learned about hope hicks departure. officials here tell us he's relieved for her because he knows how taxing her job has been. that would be a remarkable acknowledgement, right? he praised her a

magoo. >>> the other big news this morning is the reaction coming in from across the country to president trump's latest comments on gun control. >> yeah, the nra wasted no time fighting back against something the president said about assault-style rifles. president trump shocking lawmakers in this bipartisan meeting calling for wide-ranging gun control measures. >> you're afraid of the nra, right? >> reporter: the president taking positions that put him at odds with the nra and republicans. he seemed to embrace connecticut democrat chris murphy's call for background checks for all gun purchases. >> we can't get a gun. there's nothing else like that where it works, people want it and we can't do it. >> you have a different president now. >> listen -- >> you went through a lot of presidents and didn't get it done. you have a different president and different attitude. >> reporter: the president disagreeing with his own vice president saying in some cases law enforcement should take weapons from someone identified as a possible threat even if it violates due process rights. >> allow due pro

magoo. amid the chaos, one man who has been under fire seems to have weathered the storm. john kelly with some dark humor today, in a visit with former colleagues at the department of homeland security. >> i miss every one of you, every day. [ laughter ] but i did something wrong and god punished me, i guess. >> a lot of laughter in that room. cecilia vega from inside the white house tonight. and cecilia, the white house is trying to contain speculation late today about yet another possible high profile departure? >> reporter: yeah, david. sources tell us that national security adviser h.r. mcmaster is expected to leave his job as soon as this spring. there have been long-running tensions between mcmaster and the president over what many here view as mcmaster's abrasive style in some oval office meetings. but just a few minutes ago, officials here at the white house tell us there was just an oval office meeting between the two men that just wrapped up and the president told mcmaster he is doing a great job, david, they are calling this speculation fake news. >> cecilia veg

[laughter] >> juan: if he had said this is magoo here.him an idiot. >> kimberly: all right. >> jesse: may be it is a term of endearment. >> kimberly: he's got to stick up for himself. he is the attorney general of the united states. he's expected to behave in a manner to pursue justice without political ideology. we have complained vociferously here when eric holder, fast and furious, gunrunning, the whole deal. border cover up and all of the above. now we have somebody trying to do the job in the way he sees fit. it might be somewhat of a disappointment, some avenues he's chosen or pursued based on somebody's political persuasion or support of the president of the things said during the campaign. he has to see it through. he asked to do his job. there is a right way to do it in the wrong way. >> juan: what happens if your man actually gets sessions to leave? it's a terrible situation for him because you have rod rosenstein there and nobody on capitol hill is going to approve a new attorney general. >> jesse: i don't think he is leaving.

magoo strategy. tweets or the white house leaks or the president just on the record starts trashing people who work for him and that can be difficult. that has happened with tillerson to the point where -- it's interesting, in fact. when nbc broke that story, err that story last fall about tillerson allegedly calling the president a moron, the president attacked nbc and said that was fake. now we're learning he's never quite gotten over that. >> ed: real news, not fakeness. you see in the book there is a credibility crisis because the media is so one-sided against donald trump. let's wrap on that, tell me what you mean there. also the president by firing tillerson, he is feeding some of these fireworks. >> very much of a scorched earth warfare. you not only have many news organizations that have almost developed a business model of playing for that, there are some reporters and journalists who are fair, at the same time, you have celebrities, award strokes, it just seems like it's a cool thing to do,

magoo, and he's talked about him being weak and, obviously, being frustrated with him that he's rescuedhimself from the russian investigation. we'll see where it goes in terms of president's reactions, but so far, not taking a final step to remove sessions from the job. >> as you know, jeffrey, the house and senate and media out there, they said you need a special counsel to investigate, but the obama administration officials did because if you go to career federal prosecutors like the utah attorney, you can't trust them because they are part of what they see as the deep state that is bias against the president of the united states. your reaction to that? >> well, most of these republicans making accusations, as far as i can tell, are getting the information from tinfoil hats that they wear. this is the thing about the department of justice. they actually deal with facts. i mean, the lawyers there people who work there and investigates there, they look at facts. they looked at accusations and said the appropriate level is for a u.s. attorney not from the area to look into it. that seems

magoo a movie? >> no, dunkirk was a fantastic film.>> like a male bonding? >> all right. let me address the actual topic. my god! do you know what happened under a microscope? without a microscope, you drop a sweat. the moment you put that on the slide you see a bustling civilivation. that's what is happening right now. a white house under a microscope. with obama, you did not see anything because nobody bothered to look. again, there was an 8 year hibernation or obama toast. now the media is awake. they went to the gym. they are getting back in shape. that's what this is for them. everything and trump does assist them. this is a saran wrap white house. the most transparent white house in history. i know we have to go. he asked me about movies, producer? nobody can hear you at home. let's go. >> are you cool? >> yeah, i am great. >> all right. >> ♪ >> ♪ ♪ you hit me like fire, shot me like a bullet. ♪ ♪ burned me up and down, no way to cool it. ♪ ♪ every time you kiss me it's like sunshine and whiskey ♪ applebee's handcrafted burgers.

magoo that mr. trump is reportedly using for attorney general jeff sessions as their once close relationship unravels in real time. with trump now viewing over sessions' pushback, the white house was asked does the president want sessions gone. well, it wasn't actually a ringing endorsement of his stability as a.g. we'll talk about that next. so, that goal you've been saving for, you can do it. we can do this. at fidelity, our online planning tools are clear and straightforward so you can plan for retirement while saving for the things you want to do today. -whoo! while saving for the things want us to do about what woulthis president?fathers i'm tom steyer, and when those patriots wrote the constitution here in philadelphia, they created the commander in chief to protect us from enemy attack the justice department just indicted 13 russians for an electronic attack on america. so what did this president do? nothing. he's failed his most important responsibility - to protect our country. the question

magoo, a cartoon character who is elderly, myopic and bumbling.ccording to people with whom he's spoken. trump has told associates that he has hired the best lawyers for his entire life, but is stuck with sessions who is not defending him and is not sufficiently loyal. what do you make of that? >> it says to me he doesn't understand the role of the attorney general and the attorney general's relationship to the president. jeff sessions job is not to be president trump's personal lawyer. he sees the job of jeff sessions to go out there and defend him. to investigate and attack his enemies. he tweeted just today, why isn't jeff sessions having justice department lawyers go out and investigate hillary clinton? who hasn't been a political figure in 18 months. loyalty is the lens through which he views everything, but especially lawyers. >> i have to get to this gun thing, okay? today was meant to focus on president's roundtable with lawmakers, focusing on gun control. they even cancelled a briefing to highlight it. the white house steps over their own

magoo making fun of blind people, but basically saying to this guy, you're an old loser. you're an old guy who downtoesn know what he's doing here. this is weird. i'm sorry. it gets weirder. there are consequences. if he starts a trade war, by the way, autos need aluminum. they need steal to be made. so if you want the american auto industry to be competitive, you have to get them cheaper materials. you don't make the price of materials go up by starting a trade war. anyway, your thoughts. you are the pro. >> so chris, talking to folks who work at the white house and also people who have been talking to the president over the last few days, he is just isolated as angry as they've seen him during this presidency. he's at open war with his own justice department. he's got a son-in-law in a heap of trouble both politically inside the building and legally. increasing investigation into his financing and other issues and the russia probe that the mueller probe is creeping closer and closer to the oval office and has the president very much on edge and anerved and we're seeing

he calls you magoo. i'm not doing this with you. >> in the case of jeff sessions, he stays not out of loyalty to trump but because he has power. sessions was a gadfly in the senate. didn't get a lot done. now he's the top law enforcement officer in the land with enormous power and discretion over things like criminal justice reform, how immigration laws are carried out. the only reason he would stick around and take the kind of hazing he's gotten which is more brutal and humiliating than any cabinet official i think in the history of the u.s. presidency -- most people would leave the first time this happened. they would resign. they would go off -- sessions has stayed in and is taking it again and again and again because i think he has that power. as far as people listening to him or him being seen as somebody who speaks for the president, that's not happening. >> josh green, chris cillizza, thank you for the analysis. >>> to this point about what all this means for policy, the president was very ambitio