harold ford.support for jeff sessions leaving the justice department, i guess we discussed it a little bit this morning. one, are you comfortable with whom the successor might be in rod rosenstein, or do you believe that's the case, and two, longer term, do you think president trump could get a candidate through the senate and have him or her confirmed, and if so, who? >> good morning. i believe that jeff sessions has to go for different reasons than donald trump. he wasn't forthcoming with the senate and the american people about his russian ties, and he was a part of the james comey firing. for those reasons, i don't think he can remain the top laurmt officer. donald trump, his reasons are he's not loyal and that he won't attack and go after and prosecute donald trump's political opponents. i am comfortable that the senate has a responsibility to protect this country and that that doesn't mean they have to rubber stamp whoever donald trump puts forward. they should put in place a true law enforc

harold ford, jr.former rnc political director and former senior adviser to chris christie, mike duhame and reporter shelby holliday. i want to get you on the record on the new developments. it seems like the investigation has had whatever summer break it's taking and is now full steam ahead. the judiciary committees, intel committees in the house and senate getting a lot of work done this week. >> their focus, it seems mueller's focused. if barack obama had tweeted that he had said to loretta lynch, i am disappointed that you abdicated your decision-making to james comey. you should act differently. it's likely many would have called for some sort of impeachment proceedings against him or called for her to resign. two, this president is a coward. he doesn't want jeff sessions to resign. he wants bob mueller. sessions is a way to get to him. to go on and on about sessions. if you don't want him, just fire him. sessions, i think, should resign for a whole range of reasons. this president has made clear,

harold ford. quick question. as democrats you said you want to sit down.ings in light of last night's -- not passing the reveal. when you talk about fixing it, what are one or two things you could start with with democrats? do you think you might be able to find common ground? democrat talked about a public option and maybe tort reform. are there other things you think should be a part of the conversation to make it meaningful to start? >> thank you. tort reform would be a good place to start and i'd be for that. i'm not for a public option. that's buying into a failing system. it's not like mid care medicaid are financially sustainable. adding people to a system losing money is a big mistake. the biggest thing is to sit down with the 19 states. states like texas and florida that don't have medicaid expansion. they're not going to vote for it ever. and what are you going to do to help those states and hothose hospitals? that's issue number one. number two, what do you do to keep the hemorrhaging of money? we have a lot of state governors, they took medicai

harold in. >> harold ford, good morning. two questions for you.ality here. are you suggesting that maybe the person they met with, the person connected to the kremlin might have been offering information about the campaign, perhaps in exchange for changed policy around an act, and two, you make an interesting point over the weekend. trump will feud with someone together over a personal slight. we have dealt with that in the last week or too, but if you violate the nation's sovereignty, let's let bygones be bygones. what do you mean? >> on your first question, when the trump campaign accepted the meeting as trump junior admitted in his statement, it was with the expectation that they would get something, and the russian lawyer went into that meeting clearly hoping to get something in return. that was some potential favorable treatment for the adoption act. i think those questions are what investigators have to look at. your second question, we've seen trump feud forever with rosie o'donnell, b-list celebrities. he's now feud wing with the med and t

but harold ford, donald trump took a bad situation and made it much, much worse.graham said if you think the president is ever going to have your back, you're mistaken. this is a guy who tweeted and told senators the house republican bill was a mean bill after threatening them if they didn't pass it. then he went after dean heller, his super pac, actually started running ads against the nevada senator, and then we started hearing news stories about how he was going after jeff flake, the arizona senator. i mean, harold, can you explain? i don't know how much it happened in the democratic caucus, but i can tell you one time newt gingrich kicked a freshman member off the appropriations committee because he actually dared to vote against a bill. and we all shut down the house until he got put back into the house. when you have donald trump attacking senators, talk about what that does to the caucus, and how that always backfires on a president. >> you never know if when things get challenged and tough if the president is going to stand with the party or even you as an

harold ford, last word before we take a quick break. >> this is about the president.about anthony, but ultimately can general kelly prevent a president from tweeting out a change in defense policy the way they treat certain soldiers when he hasn't cleared it through command. i hear what everybody is saying, but ultimately it's maybe about jared and ivanka and can he work with -- i'm not clear, i'm not sure that anyone can maintain or control or contain this president in a way that would make a white house work effectively and ferntel. >> that is a great word to end on, haired ford jr. >> thank you to at home for sticking with us as we got that news, that breaking news coming into my ear just a few minutes ago and we stopped everything we were doing and we tried to figure it on out on the air. hope we didn't put you off and i hope you stick around and come back tomorrow. i will be back again tomorrow. right after this break -- in fact, i'm going to stay on set a little bit longer. right after this break i'm going to hand it over to my good friend ali velshi to take ove

joining me and the governor, brett stevens and harold ford jr. >> buttoning up my jacket here. >> still dressed. >> you reviewed this new book. i think we have a picture of the cover. a new book out about mostly the bannon-trump relationship, "the devil devil's bargain" by joshua green. talk about your review. >> it's a positive review. i think it's a tremendous book. it gives us an insight into how steve bannon created an alternative gop that was able to fill in for the republican party as the republican party failed to really deliver a winning coalition for donald trump going into the summer of 2016. the way they did that is what i call or what really steve bannon would call the honey boston colleger approach. the honey badger is the animal who doesn't give a darn or something like that. what they did was kind of a strategy of sort of deliberate shamelessness. people used to wonder how is trump winning despite what he said about megyn kelly, muslims, women, mexicans and so on. the lesson is he won because he said those things. >> one of the things that's getting a lot of attention, go

one that will be featured -- the black beauty that sparked harold's classic car obsession -- henry ford'sh harold's grandson eric and his friend mike for a driving lesson. step one -- hand-crank the car to start it. i don't know. what do you think? >> i think you're up for it. >> you do? >> all right. let's see if you can do it. >> give it a good crank. >> oh! not quite. >> [ grunts ] aah! ouch. [ laughs ] wait. is this a trick? [ grunts ] oh, come on. get me a car that works. [ engine starts ] >> there it is! >> hey! >> all right. >> there you go. >> right on. the model t is considered the first affordable automobile, but it's not particularly easy to drive. it has three pedals, but the brake is on the right. what's it doing there? you did clear the streets today? >> [ chuckles ] and the sidewalks. >> as we scoot around, it's easy to see why harold fell in love with this classic. i love it. feel the hair blowing, the top down. there's a big tree. >> there's a tree back there. >> big tree. brake, brake, brake, brake. okay, brake. ooh! that's forward. wait. brake, brake. oh, yeah. that thi