chris jeff and the kennedys. jeff --khrusis hchev and the kennedys. i am going to plant a word that my former colleague and friend mentioned. granular. what we have for the 1960's is a , bothar understanding because of the american side, the tapes that i spent some time with your, and on the soviet side. we have the capacity of oferstanding the politics that time in a way that is not true of all times. i am going to try to do that on the soviet side. to lay a basis i want to remind you of a few things. because of the structure of this conference, we jumped over korea. i believe that the korean war is fundamental to understanding the cold war. absent korea, if you want to talk about possibilities, you do not have the korean war and i think there is a change in the nature of the competition between the soviets and the u.s. in the q&a we can talk about korea. there are two other things that are extraordinarily important that are happening in the world that are going to shape the environment that kennedy and khrushchev are seeking to manage. of thethe dec

anyway, so chris jeff, yes, ruben chavez flying to moscow. it's the communists, they hate each other. nothing but pouring filled over each other in their propaganda and chris jeff doesn't know what to say so he takes it as a joke, he's going to join the communist party. stalin says no, ribbon chavez flying to moscow. anyway, to get towards the end, of this story, stalin hasn't told many people, he just told krista the night before. he hasn't told the border guards so ruben shaw is flying on hitler's personal plane, the condor across from kaliningrad. into soviet territory and the soviet border guards don't know. it's an unadorned identified plane and they begin to shoot the antiaircraft guns. and they miss. they miss ribbon shots plane so he lands safely in moscow. can you imagine stalin telling hitler, have the antiaircraft not miss, what was a misunderstanding. he invited your foreign minister to moscow and we forgot to tell the border guards and they shot him down, i'm so sorry. it won't happen again. you can only imagine how history would

chris? >> jeff bennett at the white house. thank you for that. >>> we have a great panel. bring in gabe sherman, "vanity fair" correspondent and correspondent for the "new york tim times" and senior writer for "newsweek." good to see you. gabe, you have a fantastic piece in "vanity fair" that just went out. talk about palace intrigue. you talk about the hours after "the guardian" godt ahold of ths book and then what happens? >> going inside the war room trying to maintain the uproar over his comments in which he says donald trump jr. may have committed treason meeting with russians and steve bannon's adviser walking back the quotes, saying they were not in context. >> donald trump jr., not happy. >> anden sent to the white house for approvapproval -- >> saying what? the kwets were out of context and believes don junior is a patriot. the classic walk back. and trump got impatient. does what he does. goes on the offensive releasing a blistering statement excoriating steve bannon. >> is that what we think hooped? he got impatient or didn't know the other stuff was going on wi

jeff? >> chris representative patrick meehan will finish his term and not stand for re-elect but departure not the only change facing the seventh. just how the boundaries are drawn are knot now in question. >> the quipped community of media delaware county affordable housing with small restaurants and retailing win walking distance. it's the county seat and the heart of the seventh congressional district now facing change on two fronts. with meehan's decision to quit. >> the accusation was a surprise and the reaction what i expected him to do. >> the did he mice of meehan's political career was swift. saturday's bombshell he used tax dollars to settle a sexual harassment by a female aid placed his future on live support. but it was series of interviews on tuesday in which he called the woman his soulmate and seemed to shift blame. >> she opened the door to trust mow. >> it was her fault. >> talk with meme it's not her fault. it's not fault. >> reporter: that sang him. >> i have feelings that were generated in that i've said an attraction. >> reporter: did you have romantic feelings for thi

chris. >> all right, jeff, thanks. >>> caught on camera, a local cop in the middle of a traffic stop jumps out of the way just in the nick of time. >>> and this is one tricked out truck. definitely the envy of eagles nation. ♪ >> skyfox over the scene avenue bridge in hill to hill bridge in bethlehem. a car an tractor trailer egg collided near the end of the bridge. it happened around noon. someone may have died in this crash early reports indicate. the bridge was shut down in both directions while police worked to clean up the accident. >>> and a dramatic incident caught on dash cam and it all started with routine traffic stop. take look at this. township of hamilton police released this. >> video operator: yo of officer baker nearly getting hit on the side of the road. he was walking up to car he had just pulled over when a another car came barreling in forcing him to jump out of the way. police are warning drivers obey the move over law. slow down when they see an emergency car with its lights on. scary stuff. >> absolutely. new sound tonight 911 call from a man who was shot and killed

and chris walsh talks about jeff sessions' decision to reverse federal marijuana enforcement policy. be sure to watch "washington a.m.al" live at 7:00 eastern saturday morning. join the discussion. on c-span, our recent interview with energy byretary rick perry followed our conversation with house speaker paul ryan on the newly bill. tax reform from earlier this week, supreme court oral argument on ohio's from removing inactive voters from registered voters list. down with energy secretary rick perry as part of with trumpews administration officials. he talked about his family and his political career, including years as governor of texas, the role of the energy workingnt and his relationship with president trump. this is 40 minutes. >> rick perry, as former texas, having served 14 years. what was the biggest learning orderyou had to take in to be energy secretary? somebody. for i worked for the united states when i was between 22 and 27. a shortrked for my dad period of time and other than that, i've either been self-employed or an agency head or the governor. so learning to be -- o

i'm jeff cole fox 29 news. chris at 6:00. >> thanks, jeff. >>> heartbreak for one girl after she lost a locket but it's not just any piece of jewelry. it's the only thing she has left ,000 in america last year. we need to stand up and say enough. the only way this problem is going to be solved is if we raise our voices. choose help over helplessness, hope over hopelessness. make sure that the lives we've lost will not have been lost in vain. addiction is a disease. when you ask for help, help is there for you. >>> a heartbreaking situation for a 14-year-old girl in south philadelphia who lost her fath father. >> necklace she wore every day with day with her ashes vanish. sabina spoke to them. >> dawn and chris, through grass and bushes and gutters filled with today's rain, we walked with susan as she searche search philadelphia for something more precious than words can descri describe. >> saint anthony, has anybody turned it in? please come around. >> she lost her father's necklace. >> something is lost. >> anybody

james comey, sally yates, jeff sessions, chris wray and now andrew mccabe.o trump wants their loyalty. he's trying to rig the system, that's investigating collusion and corruption, obstruction of justice. when you try to derail an investigation so that it's not objective, there's a name for that, it's called obstruction of justice. >> on that point, in the "washington post," all the"," s did almost precisely what comey did to him, hit him with the idea that the fbi director should be loyal to the president. if this was not one, quote, unquote mistake questioning by the fbi, but an ongoing pattern in targeting mccabe, budoes tha make things worse for trump? >> when you look at one day, trump fires the fbi director, and shortly thereafter, he reaches out to the new fbi direct to director to talk about politics to find out if he is on trump's side. when that new director doesn't give him the answer he wants, he doesn't fire him directly like he did comey, but he goes on a twitter war to try and get mccabe out and he succeeded. >> and he tells the new fbi direct

and chris walsh talks about jeff sessions' decision to reverse federal marijuana enforcement policy. be sure to watch "washington a.m.al" live at 7:00 eastern saturday morning. join the discussion. on c-span, our recent interview with energy byretary rick perry followed our conversation with house speaker paul ryan on the newly bill. tax reform from earlier this week, supreme court oral argument on ohio's from removing inactive voters from registered voters list. down with energy secretary rick perry as part of with trumpews administration officials. he talked about his family and his political career, including years as governor of texas, the role of the energy pa

. >> our meteorologist chris sowers has the favorable weather conditions, bob brooks is with tailgatetors at fdr park and jeff chirico has huge security measures into place. let's begin with chris. the birds won't have to battle the cold. >> no they most certainly will not. temperatures are already warmer than they were all of last weekend when we had the eagles taking on the falcons. that temperature during game time was somewhere below 32 degrees with wind chills in the teens. it's already 40 in allentown, 40 for cape may, atlantic city 41 and wilmington is showing 35. we're going way up from there with a lot of sunshine to start or at least some sun, filtered with an increase in clouds as the day wears on. you do see rain popping up here trying to press forward into the virginias. all of this activity stays out to the west. this should be a dry game. mainly cloudy conditions. 52 degrees is the forecasted high coming off of yesterday's 57. however there's still going to be a little bit of a breeze out of the south southwest very light 5-10 miles per hour but with temperatures just getting into the 50s, that

you broke the news it was jeff sessions who told chris wray shortly after he was confirmed to essentially purge the comey era leadership from the fbi. these aren't household names, but long trusted people on this mission betsy mentioned. telemundo us who they are and what jeff sessions urged christopher wray to do. >> shortly after christopher wray took over as director, jeff sessions told him, in fairly strong terms i'm told, that he should have a fresh start, which involved getting rid of his deputy director andrew mccabe and the top lawyer at the fbi, james a. baker, among others. basically, get your own people in there. the reason that's important is because andrew mccabe has become a bit of a lightning rod in this discussion. republicans and the president have turned on him. the president has been tweeting for months now that sessions should get rid of him. largely because he -- well, there are some questionable optics at a very minimum -- >> let's lay it out there. this is a man assassinating his character is one of the grave crimes of the trump presidency. let's say what they are.

jeff, thank you very much for that preview. let's bring in cnn politics reporter and editor at large chris cillizza. you heard from jeff we have a few messages. when america gross, the world grows. he'll tout his tax cuts, booming stock market, low unemployment and his trade agenda. it doesn't sound like there will be any surprises. when it comes to president trump, anything is possible. >> reporter: you're right on that, alisyn. planned remarks versus what he says. sometimes the news comes from what he doesn't have on the teleprompter. i don't think he's going to address this in his speech at davos. i do think the fact that he is dealing with a plas sive controversy, no matter what he wants to dismiss as fake news, that he fired or attempted to fire or ordered the firing of bob mueller and was only stopped when the general counsel don mcgann refused to carry that out order, besides all the assertions that that did not happen. this is a massive firestorm that he is very well aware of is happening and sort of is paralleling this speech. this is the trump white house. donald trump going to the globalis

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not only that they sent jeff sessions and chris rye, so i think there would be confusion in congress what is really going on here. i think the issue with the daca bill today is the gang of six, jeff flake, has come out and agreed on something. they haven't had time to sell it to the caucus yet. and bloomberg is reporting that the white house has already turned it down. that mark short, the congressional liaison, has said there is still a ways to go. so while the gang of six may have a deal, doesn't sound like there is anything that's going to be close to getting passed by the trump white house. >> which is it remarkable, by the way, brooke, just to add to josh's point. remarkable given that the meeting that josh is talking about on tuesday, immigration meeting. >> two days ago. >> right. remember what donald trump said. i'm quoting here. i'll sign it. i'll sign it. i mean, at another point in that meeting he said something like. >> he said i'll take the heat. >> i'll take the heat on comprehensive reform. so you know i think what they are trying to do is rig that box that the presiden

when my colleagues are taking shots at jeff sessions and chris wray. the executive branch.e control the justice department as we do. >> why are they doing that? >> it's hard to make a case. >> i don't know. i don't completely understand the rational. as i said, the fbi is composed of people who are professional. are there bad apples? i'm sure there are. there are those who sent out text messages heavily charged. director mueller either replaced them or demoted them. i think director mueller has handled himself really well. we have to assume these men and women are in fact professionals. of course they have political opinions. everybody has political opinions, the question is will those political opinions in some way obstruct their ability to be fair and thorough in an investigation? i think the answer to that is no, of course they can do their jobs. they can separate their political opinions from their work. certainly hope that's the case throughout the federal system. >> thanks to charlie dent. >>> still ahead here in the newsroom, the cia director says the president's twe

chris walsh. he is here to talk about attorney general jeff sessions' decision to reverse a federal obama air of marijuana enforcement policy and how it can impact the marijuana industry. thank you for joining us. guest: thank you for having me. host: talk about the recreational marijuana industry now that we have had states legalizing it. how big is it? guest: this is a multibillion dollar industry. several billion dollars a year are in retail sales from the recreational site. it has surpassed the medical marijuana industry, where you have 30 states legalized. it has stormed onto the scene. industry in the states that legalized it. host: a market watch piece called it a 50 bali are -- a $50 billion industry. how many jobs are created in the states voting to legalize marijuana? guest: you have over 200,000 jobs in general. number is set to double or triple, just like retail sales in the coming years as off.ornia's markets takes there is a lot of growth on the horizon. host: back to the market watch peas, talking about the $50 pulsate industry, " roughly 60% of americans support roughlya -- polls say 60% o

. >> and putting chris wray directly in the crosshairs, with jeff zeleny saying we expect it to be released it will make news if it doesn't and chris wray saying please don't. >> this is extraordinary. this is a trump appointee, his own fbi director, his own justice department going against him. i looked at the director's statement t says very clearly they've followed all the procedures in fisa. i've gotten fisa warrants. they involve extensive people, court review and there is a clear paper trail. you can go back and look to see the steps it took to get to its final destination. if it goes through a review i think it will end up validating the director's statement then you have a situation where you have an independent review also contradicting the president. it will be interesting to see if he hangs his hat on a chair that the chairman nunes didn't even look at the information on which this memo is based. >> i think jeff zeleny put it correctly, it will be news if the white house doesn't release this thing. thank you for your voice and experience with the fbi. the other breaking story thi

chris and alisyn? >> all right, jeff, appreciate it. let's bring in cnn political analyst david gregory and michael zeleny. he worked with bob mueller. he is an expert in money laundering and cases of this nature. great to have you both here. michael, let me seize on something that was really instructive for people in this gaggle from the president. he said a couple of things that really shine a light on what might happen if he sits down with the investigators. and i want your take on it. first, he said it's not obstruction when you're just fighting back. okay. that's one thing, he said. then he said this about andrew mccabe. let's play it. >> did you ask mccabe who he voted for? >> i don't think so. no. no, i don't think so i did. >> you don't? >> i don't think what's the big deal with that, because i would ask you who you -- who did you vote for? i don't think it's a big deal, but i don't remember that. i saw that this morning. i don't remember asking him that question. >> is it possible you did? >> i don't remember asking him the que

officials, but we have learned and confirmed today that the attorney general jeff sessions did pressure the fbi director chris wray to remove some of his -- remove or reassign some of the senior staffers over at the fbi, saying they needed a fresh start and we're told that he specifically suggested that the bureau's deputy director andrew mccabe and top lawyer james bakker. now, baker was reassigned late last year. we're told that wray threatened to resign if andrew mccabe was removed or reassigned from his post. so it just goes to speak to the level of tension in between the doj, the fbi, something the president has criticized multiple times. andrew mccabe specifically, brianna, saying he should step down and just as recently as early as december, the president said the fbi was, quote, in tatters. >> that's right. he did. kaitlan collins at the white house, thank you so much. joining me to talk more about this, we have cnn political analyst and washington bureau chief for the daily beast, jackie kucinich with us. reporter and editor at large for cnn politics, chris cilizza and garrett graph, the author of "t

chris and alisyn. >> all right, jeff. i'm watching you. i'm keeping an eye on you there in davos to make sure i don't have to go over there and check on you. >> chilling. makes the ferret hair on the top of my head stand up. >> i don't want to open a can of jersey. let's bring in "new york times" white house correspondent maggie haberman. maggie, let's talk about how the president is very excited to sit down with bob mueller and he's happy to do it under oath, as he said. only one caveat, if his lawyers agree to all of that. >> up to my lawyers, but, yeah. >> of course, that's true of anybody, right? let's take the president at his word. i'm sure he would be happy to talk to bob mueller. how does the rest of the white house feel about this i'm penmp interview? >> i think he does want to do this. i've been hearing from people close to him for weeks that he has said privately he's really excited to do this because he believes he can essentially sell someone on almost any version of what he thinks. he thinks he can convince these investigator

jeff cole where he denied having romantic feelings for a former female staff. meehan faces accusations of using tack pair dollars to settle a sexual harassment claim. our chris o'connell is live in chadds ford, delaware county, with the breaking details. chris? >> reporter: lucy, congressional source in washington, d.c. telling me tonight now being widely reported congressman pat meehan will not seek re-election following his sexual harassment scandal involving a former congressional aide. the 62-year-old congressman has been serving parts of delaware, montgomery, berks and lancaster counties in the seventh congressional district since 2011. then up until last weekend was on the house ethics committee. well he informed the speaker of the house tonight, paul ryan, he will not run for re-election later this year. this happening after bombshell

jeff sessions, the attorney general went to chris wray, the fbi director and said, you know, you have to get rid of this guy. chris wray didn't like that. he went to the white house counsel, reportedly, don mcgahn and complained. he was not in good standing over at the white house. wray, for whatever reason, wray had been defending mccabe, correct? for the most part. there was something that happened over the weekend that made him scratch his head and think, you know what? i'm going to stop doing that. >> it could have been the inspector general report or the devin nunes memo which wray was allowed to review over the weekend, a four-page memo outlining alleged fbi abuse. >> we don't know. >> on the nunez thing, i was talking to people on the fbi side, they don't believe it's related to nunez. wray did see it, but those, whatever is contained in that memo doesn't appear to have any kind of direct effect or factor into the decision that the fbi director made today with mccabe about him leaving. >> we are told, also, the president was upset, furious, some are suggesting when he was flyin

that would be the deep state justice department run by real donald trump appointees, jeff sessions, rod rosenstein and chris wr aray. here's sarah huckabee sanders talking today. >> what did the president mean when he said the deep state justice department? and does this administration believe that the deep state is a real thing, that there is this shadow government out there actively plotting to sabotage him? >> look, the president finds some of these actions very disturbinging and he thinks that we need to make sure if there is an issue, that it's looked at. but if there was anything beyond that, i would refer you to the department of justice that would look into it. >> does he believe that the entire justice department and it's more than 100,000 employees are part of this deep state. >> obviously he doesn't believe the entire justice department is part of that, you know, one of the things the president has done is appoint christopher wray at the justice department. >> does the president believe in ghosts and as is often the case, the twitter war against the backdrop of a widening russia probe. quote, the

chris walsh. he is here to talk about attorney general jeff sessions' decision to reverse a federal obama air of marijuanaorcement policy and how it can impact the marijuana industry. thank you for joining us. guest: thank you for having me. host: talk about the recreational marijuana industry now that we have had states legalizing it. how big is it? guest: this is a multibillion dollar industry. several billion dollars a year are in retail sales from the recreational site.

. >> chris: president trump tonight's he did anything wrong in trying to stop jeff sessions for recusing himself in the rush investigation. >> everything of dennis 100% proper. found after a year there has been no collusion. localism between us and the russians. there has been collusion between hillary clinton, the d&c of the russians. >> leland: the president. >> chris: the press and take an obvious pleasure and reports that the fbi is still investigating hillary clinton. let's start with the news that the fbi resumed its investigation of the clinton foundation and allegations of pay to play more than a year ago. now gop senators want them to take a look at possible criminal investigation, christopher steele who is behind the russian dossier. it looks like hillary clinton is back as a possible target of fbi investigations. >> i was still point there is some evidence that he may have lied to federal officials in the fbi. if you did that, that would be a crime. >> chris: understand if you're going to go after george papadopoulos on michael flynn. >> this if it's a problem for trumpet shou

widely being reported and in that interview with jeff cole just a couple days ago congressman meehan claimed no wrongdoing. thomas? >> certainly more to come. chris, thank you in chadds ford tonight. breaking news out of moorestown, new jersey, police are looking for a knife-year-old woman right here. authorities say rose pet cofsky last seen just before 6:00 at the artist senior living facility on lippincott drive. she's driving a beige toyota camry with acg4131 new jersey license plate. if you think you've spotted her please call police. >>> another developing story out of chadds ford, delaware county, a monsignor at a catholic church faces theft and drug charges ton night after the news broke saint cornelius church held an emergency closed door meeting. last spring monsignor greg four polante announced his departure in a church bulletin sight citing medical issues. state police and drug sniffing dogs to called to investigate a package. inside what is believed to be illegal drugs. church leaders sent out a letter saying the church's financial board is helping authorities in this investigation. >>> someone is hitting uptakes for more than just a

. >> chris: president trump tonight's he did anything wrong in trying to stop jeff sessions for recusing himself in the rush investigation. guess who else is under investigation? hillary clinton. the panel returns next. and if that's not enough... we should move. our home team will help you every step of the way. still not enough? it's smaller than i'd like. we'll help you finance your dream home. it's perfect. oh, was this built on an ancient burial ground? okay... then we'll have her cleanse your house of evil spirits. we'll do anything, (spiritual chatter) seriously anything to help you get your home. ally. do it right. even when nothing else is. keep her receipts tidy, to help you get your home. brand vo: snap and sort your expenses with quickbooks and find, on average, $4,340 in tax savings. quickbooks. backing you. >> everything of dennis 100% proper. found after a year there has been no collusion. localism between us and the russians. there has been collusion between hillary clinton, the d&c of the russians. >> leland: the president. >> chris: the press and take an obvious pleasur

jeff sessions to resign. well, tonight, we have just got a third. christewart, congressman from utah, is now the third republican member of congress calling for jeff sessions to resign. and the attorney general not invited to the sleepover at camp david this weekend. now growing calls for resignation of congressmen. watch this space. that does it for us tonight. see you monday. now lime for "the last word

he wrote this is the deep state run by trump appointees, chris rey the head of the fbi, jeff sessions of the head of the justice department, his deputy rod rosenstein also a trump employee, sally yates speak out on twitter about the dangers basically of attacking and maligning constantly over and over again with the presidential bully pulpit, the career professionals who protect this country day after day. you can speak to whether or not there's any precedent for this and what you think is happening inside the kinds of institutions in which you serve, places like the pentagon and the cia? >> this is part of a pattern and practice by the president to malign and undermine the institutions of our democracy. he's talked about so-called judges. he has gone after our intelligence professionals. he has now going after the men and women in the department of justice who are sworn and take an oath to the constitution to uphold the laws and enforce the laws and they do so for all americans regardless of whether the president's a democrat or republican. and so it's really reprehensible for a pres

jeff sessions to resign. well, tonight, we have just got a third. chrisewart, congressman from utah, is now the third republican member of congress calling for jeff sessions to resign. and the attorney general not invited to the sleepover at camp david this weekend. now growing calls for resignation of congressmen. watch this space. that does it for us tonight. see you monday. now, it's time for the last word with katy tur in for lawrence this evening. >> in the words of donald trump that is not nice. he came out and endorsed him. a big deal. >> here's one thing this might be nice about it.

jeff sessions to resign. well, tonight, we have just got a third. chris stewart, congressman from utah, is now the third republican member of congress calling for jeff sessions to resign. and the attorney general not invited to the sleepover at camp david this weekend. now growing calls for resignation of congressmen. watch this space. that does it for us tonight. see you monday. now lime for "the last word with katy tur." >> in the words of donald trump that is not nice. he came out and endorsed him. a big deal. >> here's one thing this might be nice about it. alabama never gets as cold as camp david is going to be this weekend so it's possible he's a delicate flower. >> well, there's that. >> and the president wanted to spare him. >> usually i do the awkward handoffs with ari melber and can be awkward and not sure how to throw you off your game, though. >> oh, there's -- i can give you infinite possibilities. you just sit here and look at me weird for a few seconds and i crumble. see? okay. there you go. bye, katy. >> thank you. it is exciting to take i

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quote, attorney general jeff sessions at the public urging of president donald trump has been pressuring fbi director chris ray to fire fbi deputy director andrew mccabe but ray threatened to resign if mccabe was removed. that's according to three sources with direct knowledge. according to the new reporting tonight, attorney general jeff sessions told the white house counsel don mcgahn how upset the fbi director was about the pressure to fire his deputy andrew mccabe. he said this issue was not worth losing the fbi director over. that's according to a source familiar with the situation. we do not know when this occurred. the fbi director threatening to resign on the face of pressure to remove the deputy director of the burro. of course, the president nominated chris ray to be fbi director this past summer, after he fired the previous fbi director james comey. james comey testified to congress he was fired after he refused to let go of the fbi investigation into the president's national security advisor mike flynn. but this reporting tonight about the pressure being applied by administration to james comey

that would be the deep state justice department run by real donald trump appointees, jeff sessions, rod rosenstein and chris wr aray. here's sarah huckabee sanders talking today. >> what did the president mean when he said the deep state justice department? and does this administration believe that the deep state is a real thing, that there is this show

jeff merkley. your rationale in voting no today. >> chris, there is a lot wrong with this longer-term continuing resolution. what we know is that leader mcconnell only gets engaged in the last 24 or 36 hours before a deadline. we're going to waste a couple more weeks. the country is tired of wasting month after month after month when we should be addressing these issues. these are all things that should be resolved before october 1st, the start of the fiscal year. so we've got to get down to business on the spending bill for the year, we've got address the opioid crisis, and we certainly need to address legal status, the foundation has been ripped out from under these hundreds of thousands of children across america. it is absolutely wrong. it's morally wrong. and we've got to fix it. >> so the argument that's being made, and that is a tactic argument. i want to put aside substantive commitments here. let's say other democratic senators and your colleagues agree on community health center funding and daca. the tactical argument is democrats, there was no light attend of the tunnel. democrats could keep the

then you see jeff sessions, the attorney general, says to chris wray, the head of the fbi, get rid ofhis guy. chris wray doesn't want to do it. he goes to the white house counsel, don mcgahn, and says, please don't make me do it. and now suddenly he's gone. >> i got to jump in. >> we were getting warmed up. >> i know. >> i need to respond to one of them. >> very quickly. >> let me say, the chief of staff was the first one to say mccabe had a conflict of interest. if you think you can read those peter strzok/lisa page -- >> i want to thank everybody on the panel. chris cuomo is going to pick up the coverage with "cuomo prime time" right after a quick break. >>> breaking news, the republicans seem to have found their counter to the russia investigation, and it puts the fbi and the democrats in the crosshairs. the memo they plan to release is just the setup for what they hope will be a mass conspiracy of wrongdoing at the highest levels of law enforcement. all an alleged plot by the enemies of president trump. that's what they're selling. tonight i go one-on-one with minority leader nanc

and what i see when i see jeff sessions talking to the white house counsel, perhaps, putting pressure on chris wray to get rid of andrew mccabe, all sorts of stories, when i see jeff sessions out there maligning the fbi, which is part of the justice department, when he's maligning the fbi, when he's sort of participating in that sort of conservative ecochamber, the fbi derangement syndrome that you hear on fox news. when he's participating in that, what i see is an attorney general who's publicly trying to get himself back in the president's good graces. whether or not that lines up with what he tells the special counsel under oath privately, that's another question. >> let me play the president being asked about just what eli's talking about. and that is any concerns about sessions' testimony. >> general told the special counsel -- >> no, i'm not at all concerned. >> did you talk to him about it? >>. no, i didn't but i'm not at all concerned. >> chuck rosenberg, let me ask you if you are at all concerned about what you're hearing from the commander in chief about individual named members of t

when others in the white house wouldn't listen opinion the fisher director chris was threatened to quit. andrew mccabe and even jeffoffered to quit after his relationship with the president soured after he recused himself from the doj russia investigation. is threatening to quit is that going to be the only way to get the president to take something or someone seriously? >> well, let me say this. it has to be someone with some importance, someone who is actually helping the ship, helping to right the ship. not just someone of consequence. this president right now at this moment in time he doesn't want anyone to quit, anyone of senior authority who is out there in the public, because it looks bad for him. and he has made that clear. for instance, right now, general kelly -- he and general kelly are not getting along well. he is trying to ride it out. we never know what's going on. there are a lot of things we are hearing. it doesn't bode well if someone of a major stature were to resign. earlier when jeff sessions tried to resign the chief of staff was reince priebus. and reince priebus excuse me got that informatio

jeff sessions to go. now the next day, a utah republican joins this call. here is what congressman chris stewart had to say. >> we have been weaken in our investigation of important concerns at the department of justice and at the fbi because jeff sessions is not able to take the reign into the direct investigation. i for probably a different reason, i believe we are and if we have not approached it, we are approaching the time when mr. sessions for the good of this investigation looking at the fbi, looking with the department of justice, we need a director there that could take the reigns and could be assertive than that. he cannot do that when he's recused. i believe it is time for him to step aside. >> lets talk it over with the former presidential adviser to nixon, reagan and clinton. sessions did the right thing with his recusal of the russia problem. what do you think is behind the outrage of republicans? >> i think the republicans are anxious and the process that we see on capitol hill and various investigations out of the three. investigations are under way at least two are becom

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when you see jeff sessions going to the fbi director chris wray and trying to get the number two removedthat's a troubling sign. >> it's really an important point you make, andrew mccabe is the subject of my special report tonight. who is this man, why does he seem to be to some at the white house the newcomby. we have more on that story as well as this breaking news out of the white house, donald trump saying explicitly he'll sit with mueller in as little as two to three weeks subject to his lawyer's counsel. we'll be right back. this trn. you have 4.3 minutes to yourself. this calls for a taste of cheesecake. philadelphia cheesecake cups. rich, creamy cheesecake with real strawberries. find them with the refrigerated desserts. get ready for centrum micro-workouts. the bottle curl. the twist n' turn. the stretch n' grab. the gummy squish. centrum micronutrients fuel your body from the inside out. grab a centrum and join in. repeat daily. why make something this intelligent... (engine starting up) ...when it can get by on looks alone? why create something that stands out, when everyone e

trump's attempts to remove jeff sessions as attorney general or pressure him into quitting and determine whether this was a pattern of behavior by the president. for more, chris to be here. >> starting with sbk donald trump, one of the many stories tonight. what jumps out to you about it. >> i think some sort of face-off between the two was inevitable as always. it is incredibly dangerous territory for the president of the united states for a lot of reasons. i mean, we remember back when bill clinton, they managed to work their way to a deposition for bill clinton, which proved to be essentially the approximate cause, the trigger for what would become monica lewinsky even though it was unrelated to the claim by paula jones. if you're a lawyer, kin of donald trump, you do not want him sitting across the table be to fbi investigators. and you want to avoid it as much as possible. we have seen donald trump is very experienced. he may be as experienced as anyone in the country, and i honestly mean that in depositions and answering in sort of narrow ways. we've seen the deposition footage in which he suddenly leaks all kind of memory holes. i would not underestima

because your service was selfless but they are represented by names like rich, jeff, bill, charlie, kevin, amy, tom, chris, michelle, paul, mike. we worked very hard and we worked very well for the right reasons to do the right thing. and now in the final hours of our partnership i am regularly reminded of that great quotation from ulysses and i truly believe it applies to each and everyone of you in the road we have traveled together these last lesson carefully. though much is taken much abides and though we are not now the stream of the old days of heaven and earth and that of what we are we are. made week by time and fate but strong in will strive and seek to find and never ever yield. for me and the team i brought with me to this place eight years ago that sums up what we came here to do. to strive and win for the people to seek that which is good and right in all that we do to find solutions to problems nobody could solve before us and never, never yield not to pressure or polls or allies or puffery or partisanship or the old phrase that has never been done here before. i reviewed today grateful, hap

but they are represented by names like rich and jeff and bill, charlie, kevin, amy, tom, chris and michelle, paul and mike. to my team we worked very hard and very well and always for the right reasons to do the right things. now with the final hours of our partnership slips away, i am regularly reminded of a great quote from ulysses and i truly believe it applies to each and every one of you over the last 16 years so please listen carefully. and those with heaven and earth one equal from our parts made week by time and faith but strong and will and strive to see and never never yield. for me and the team i brought with me years ago to pick up a win for the people that we serve. to find solutions that no one could solve before. that is a pressure or puffery or partisanship with that phrase that has never been done before. i leave you today graceful, happy and a better man than i was then walking in here for the first time eight years ago. and the wonderful people of the great state of new jersey. coming to this job eight years ago proud to be one of you and i leave next week even prouder to

jeff sessions the attorney general says to chris wray, the head of the fbi. get rid of this guy.y doesn't want to do it. he goes to the white house counsel don mcgahn and says don't make me do it. suddenly he's gone. >> i have to jump in. >> we were getting warmed up. >> quickly. >> the chief of staff was the first to say mccabe had a conflict of interest. if you think you can read the strozk, page e-mails and say there's not a problem a prejudice there. you know there's some -- >> i want to thank everybody on the panel. chris cuomo will pick up the coverage after a quick break. p. nexium 24hr stops acid before it starts for all-day, all-night protection. can you imagine 24 hours without heartburn? >>> breaking news the republicans seem to have found the counter to the russia investigation. and it puts the fbi and the democrats in the cross hairs. the memo they plan to release is just set up for what they hope will be a mass conspiracy of wrong doing at the highest level of law enforcement. all in alleged plot by the enemies of president trump. that's what they're selling. tonigh