now, attorney general jeff sessions has also ordered a review of the database. and when you look at what the suit actually does, it wants to have a potential court order against secretary mattis to hold him in contempt if the pentagon doesn't get in compliance with the law. david. >> hans, i just want to ask you about what precipitated this. you mentioned devin kelley, the shooter responsible for that horrible shooting in sutherland springs. to what degree was a catalyst for all of this? >> it was a major catalyst. in the past the pentagon has done reviews, but the idea that an individual who should not have access to a gun, should have been prevented by a national gun database, the idea that that paperwork wasn't filed properly, the other services are looking into it as well. there was an i.g. report that came out that looked at it more broadly but devin kelley was the precipitating factor and he did force the air force to go back and look at their books and realize the extent of the problem. >> what indications do you have they're going to take it seriously th

being charged had relationships with jeff sessions during the campaign and transition. he was the head of the foreign policy team. it's not fair to say that jeff

it isn't jeff sessions who fires james comey. but trump relies on a recommendation from jeff sessions. jeff sessions relies on the word of his deputy attorney general who talks all about the clinton case. well, you raised earlier a great point. isn't jeff sessions supposed to be recused from the clinton case? he said that when he took office and, look, jeff sessions on the campaign trail talked a lot about the clinton case. there were good reasons for him to be recused. it is an interesting issue. how can he endorse those findings from rod rosenstein if he's supposed to be recused from the case. >> matt covering the justice department for "the washington post" on what is a remarkable day to be covering the justice department for "the washington post." your paper has done a lot to -- almost more than anything to increase our understanding of this as a country. i'm sure you're proud to be working there tonight but also incredibly busy. thanks for being with us, matt. >> thank you. ing. >> us now is senator sheldon whitehouse, democ

so jeff sessions had to pay for my meal. he has continued to pay it forward to this day as a dear friend and mentor and of course is now the attorney general of the united states of america. mr. president, jeff sessions is a gracious statesman and a man of principle, and it's not far-fetched, in my opinion, to say that some of his temperament rubbed off on him from our state's senior senator and my dear friend, senator richard shelby. and i so appreciate his presence here in the chamber today. over 30 years ago, i was introduced to then-congressman shelby by my friend, court-martialer secretary of the senate joe stewart, a person who revered this institution. as a young lawyer, i learned from a man fast becoming a legendary legislator. he would become one of my most treasured friends, sharing many days hunting together in the fields of alabama and elsewhere and many more stories shared here in the halls of the capitol. together, jeff sessions and richard shelby represent the finest alabama has to offer to the nation. followi

>> i certainly have a big desire to hear more from jeff sessions.se some of the stuff just as james comey mentioned is classified and i can't discuss. but my impression, i don't believe that jeff sessions should have had any role either in the russia investigation, or in deciding t fire the former fbi director. >> was -- were there other moments today where there were things that you were watching this from your perch learned or knew avenues of inquiry that opened up for you today. >> what was most revealing was to have james comey come in and describe his interactions with the president and say very clearly that he felt that the president gave him a directive about how to handle the michael flynn investigation and basically to make it go away and also for a former fbi director to say that he wrote the memos because he was concerned that the sitting president of the united states might lie and tell a false version was really astonishing. >> do you think it is important -- i want to follow up on something that my guest just said and chris murphy said

ari, many of us opposed the appointment of jeff sessions.of us that head national civil rights groups vehemently opposed it. he called out a meeting with us and he clearly said to all of us sitting there in the naacp, urban action network, legal defense fund, i'm not participating in these voter rights lawsuits including the texas lawsuit, the justice department was plaintiffs about voter id and other areas of voter suppression, north carolina and others. and it led to many of us rallying and i helped to coordinate 5,000 ministers and rabbis and lgbt people to march. you remember the ministers march in august of this year where we marched from martin luther king's statue to jeff sessions' justice department. with all the drama, he is methodically already privatizing use of federal prisons. he's already made real moves in withdrawing some of the voter rights claims. we are seeing them chip away in this area more than any area that will have ramifications for a long time to come. >> i think you put your finger on it. we look back at this year,

i think in your colleague's book about steve bannon, about the bet here that jeff sessions, a senator, took on supporting donald trump. as we heard from garrett haake, this relationship has seemingly soured over the course of the last year. what are your sources saying about the integrity of that relationship. >> david, it wouldn't be the holidays without a little family drama. in the trump administration they have a lot of drama, so to speak, between the attorney general. look, you talk to folks who work with this administration and

there was a lot of pressure on jeff sessions. but if you are president trump tonight and hearing that five days after your attorney general recused himself the fbi said well, that contact with a with the russian ambassador really wasn't that big of a deal, the anger that president trump has had before about the recusal leading to the mueller appointment is only going to get a little hotter. >> martha: likely bubbling back up again. ed henry tonight at the white house for us. joining me now is karl rove former deputy chief of staff for president bush and fox news contributor. adrienne elrod served as direct for the hillary hillary clinton presidential campaign. thank you you both for being here. with regard to this cnn report, i just want to put up a statement from cnn's brian stelter. he said that a cnn spokeswoman says there will be no disciplinary action in this case because, unlike brian ross, abc, mkraju followed the editorial standards process. multiple sources provided him with the incorrect info. when you put these stories

this relationship between trump and jeff sessions, is this something to be watching in 2018 in terms of how long sessions stays in, or is he dug in? >> well, it's certainly something to be watching. if we know one thing it's that the president demands absolute loyalty and he believes jeff sessions has not given that to him. i was also struck in the same way we discussed before how the president is a little softer on mueller than we've seen him be, both publicly and privately, for the way the president has spoken about jeff sessions earlier this year in tweets, public comments and certainly privately. i've had members of congress tell me that the president can't stand his attorney general. so for that sort of backdrop, the president again was quite measured in his remarks to the "new york times." but yes, i think the relationship is fraught. he was incredibly frustrated after sessions recused himself. it doesn't look like it's going to be something to recover. that doesn't necessarily mean sessions is one of these people who will be leaving the administration at the one-year mark, but

over the fact that republicans were not able to hold on to jeff sessions' senate seat in alabama. the list of republicans who bear some responsibility for that loss is long and distinguished and includes, certainly, the president himself, both for picking sessions and setting up a special election. and for his support, tepid at first, for luther strange and continuing support for roy moore, who ultimately lost. but this is never just about one thing when it comes to the president and jeff sessions, except, it's always a little bit about russia. remember, jeff sessions recused himself from any russia or campaign-related matters back in the spring. it was that recusal that sort of set up the dominos that would lead to robert mueller being appointed special counsel by the deputy attorney general without sessions sort of there as the firewall. all this continues to build and continues to bother the president over someone who is really as close of an ideological ally on most big issues facing the country and facing this president as anybody else in the cabinet still. so striking that th

i wonder if there's a third bucket that jeff sessions may have. >> i don't see him facing any legal exposure. there's no indication on any of that. i think the larger question on sessions is what will trump do? if the russia investigation continues to intensify, the belief among folks at the white house and around sessions is that sessions will once again become the target and the president will once again go after him because the president blames him from recusing himself and if he had not done that, mueller wouldn't have been appointed. so they see him as a sitting target if the russia investigation continues to get worse. >> and let me just follow up. do you think there is any feeling that that concern not trying to fortify himself in the eyes of the president may be behind what nbc is reporting to be opening up a dormant investigation into uranium one? >> well, certainly when they came out a few weeks ago and says they were going to do this, look into the idea of a special prosecutor, it was widely seen as just that. it is just trying to placate the president. the president tweeted right

and is this, again, a dig at jeff sessions? >> it's absolutely a dig at jeff sessions, and it is very revealing of one of the animating features of his personality. he likes people who like him and who he believes are loyal to him and once he believes that those people might no longer be loyal to him, that's when the knives come out. they come out in different ways. you saw it in the interview with paul manafort. a lot of suspicion within trump's inner circle that paul manafort may have been providing information to the fbi, mueller, that we can put that to rest because of the very sort of strong, aggressive nature of mueller's indictment of paul manafort. but when there was that suspicion of him, he started to talk about, oh, manafort was just a guy who played a very limited role in my came pain. he stressed that theme again to mike in the interview, and we see it now with mike flynn, where, you know, mike flynn or we see it starting to happen with mike flynn where now we do know that mike flynn is working with mueller's team

y nadie ha presionado ms para eso que el fiscal general jeff sessions. empezando con su campaÑa contra las ciudades santuario. s/ jeff sessions, fiscal general a esos criminales que esas ciudades no nos entregan debemos sacarlos de esas comunidades como sea, dijo el fiscal. tambien le pidio a los fiscales federales que den cargos de "crimen serio" a inmigrantes que tratan varias veces de entrar al pas ilegalmente. en otro tema de inmigracin. sessions ha defendido vigorosamente el llamado "veto migratorio" del presidente trump que prohbe la entrada de personas de algunos pases de mayora musulmana, entre otros. y a pesar de la oposicin y la batalla en las cortes, ha logrado reducir la entrada de refugiados e inmigrantes. s/ congresista juan vargas "él está muy necio en tratar de ir en contra de los inmigrantes, no no más los que están aquí sin documentos pero también contra los legales, sabemos eso" lo otro que logr sessions fue cancelar una regulacin impuesta por el gobierno anterior dando paso a que los fiscales puedan imponer penas mayores en casos que

jeff sessions can redeem himself in this situation. he can do a cup of things.e can open and formally announce an investigation into the uranium one deal, work to declassify the fi fisa warrants. ana lot of what took place declp back into the doj because i think the american people have lost trust in that institution. but one more thing, i think he got terrible advice terrible ads chief of staff and he can announce that he's notten conflicted in this investigation and he can step back in and take charge of the special counsel. he can do this, charles. i think he got terrible advice. he needs to reexamine. if he's not had representative z saying that they weren't coming forward with the investigation that they won't say is valid. they're trying to follow the money trail. but there seems to be some form of leadership there. and is it possible jeff sessions can step back into the picture at this point? >> well i think that's something for him to do. when you look at the department of justice, when you look at the fbi right now, the american people just really don't

i would like to introduce a fellow seven or and more importantly, fellow american, jeff sessions. e] a.g. sessions: thank you, very much. thank you for the introduction and the hard work you are doing to make this service so special. i especially want to thank the law enforcement professionals who are here, including united states attorney jesse lou who is returning to her office and -- in washington, d.c. as a u.s. attorney where she served for a number of years. to mike and jessie and dick of the fbi and ed, jonathan, brianna, jerry, and heather of our national security division in the department of justice and to so many others who are here in the department of justice. i would like to take a moment to remember frank dugan. your attorney whom we lost last month. everyone knows he was tough and a most able advocate for the victims of pan american 103. he will be missed. and to thank his widow, i think you are here, during this difficult time. on behalf of the president, i want to offer my condolences to all of the families of the victims of pan am 103. your strength today and ove

what happened, jeff sessions is going to investigate. i'm hopeful this will be a bipartisan enterprise. and finally what should happen is operation cassandra should be revised. gregg: the prosecutions should go forward that president obama allegedly and his administration put a halt to. and there may be other crimes committed in the process. cliff may, thank you. merry christmas. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell is reportedly brewing that the republicans might lose the senate and house in 2018. tammy bruce and dom giordano give us their predictions. this wing suiter doing what has never been done before. we'll be when a cold calls... achoo! ...answer it. with zicam cold remedy. it shortens colds, so you get better, faster. colds are gonna call. answer them with zicam! zicam. get your better back. now in delicious fruit drops. gregg: senate majority leader mitch mcconnell reportedly expressing concerns that the republicans could loose seats in the house and senate. they need to pick up a -- the democrats need to pick up 24 seats to

jeff sessions is overseeing the fbi.his people accused of being biased, in need of being purged. jeff sessions is the unifying theory, the whipping boy for the president, for republican critics. he seems greatly diminished by the people who employ him and people in his own party. >> he came after jeff sessions strongly when he recused himself -- >> he shouldn't have done it. >> exactly. democrats have made significant gains in state elections across the country. after passing the tax bill, which was one of the most unpopular pieces of legislation in decades, according to various polls, should republicans be hitting the panic button when they see the blue momentum across the u.s.? >> i think republicans have a very significant sales job ahead of them. that's something mitch mcconnell himself conceded after the tax bill was passed, because as you mentioned, it's wildly unpopular, but it is the single legislative accomplishment for republicans since they have controlled both chambers of congress and the white house. i think

jeff sessions needs to get off hes dove. >> let's see. definitely a call for jeff sessions to do something about this and obviously would be keep withing what the president wants to do, greg. i will double back. california governor jerry brown, signed a bill designating california a sanctuary state. talk about that. >> well, oddly enough,s restrictive and abusive and illegal as that is because under the sepremacy clause federal government has the final say and province over matters of immigration. jerry brown is thumbing his nose at the law. san francisco is more restrictive than the state sanctuary policy. and both out abprosecuted by feds. >> there is a serious and significant, loss of life you hear the stories and you meet the mothers and the fathers and the family member who is suffered at the hands of crimes committed by illegal immigrant who is come in the country revolving door exhibiting res recidivism. repeat crimes and career criminals and nothing is done about it >> >> no nothing is done about temperature i want to add context

jeff sessions, the seat that we were filling tonight was jeff sessions' seat.t time that seat was up for election, 2014, jeff sessions won that seat with 97% of the vote. 97, the democrats could not even come up with an opponent to jeff sessions. this is how far they've come in that same seat tonight, where the republicans won 97 the last time it was up. the democrat wins. >> that's exactly right. just to tag on to what everybody else was saying about the black vote. black women are the backbone of the democratic party, and i hope that the democratic party sees that and really invests, because what alabama did do is they put together the largest, getting out to vote operation that they've ever had, at least democrats have ever had. whenq whether they put it together, had the candidate, had the message. put it out there, the infrastructure and the money on the ground, and really reached out to voters, and it paid off. >> it was a night of two huge surprises in alabama. one, a democrat wing a senate se -- winning a senate seat, and two, a tweet from donald trump.

jeff sessions, the seat that we were filling tonight was jeff sessions' seat. the last time that seat was up for election, 2014, jeff sessions won that seat with 97% of the vote. 97, the democrats could not even come up with an opponent to jeff sessions. this is how far they've come in that same seat tonight, where the republicans won 97 the last time it was up. the democrat wins. >> that's exactly right. just to tag on to what everybody else was saying about the black vote. black women are the backbone of the democratic party, and i hope that the democratic party sees that and really invests, because what alabama did do is they put together the largest, getting out to vote operation that they've ever had, at least democrats have ever had. they put it together, had the candidate, had the message. put it out there, the infrastructure and the money on the ground, and really reached out to voters, and it paid off. >> it was a night of two huge surprises in alabama. one, a democrat wing a senate -- winning a senate seat, and two, a tweet from donald trump. we'll ha

new reports tonight that attorney general jeff sessions has ordered justice department prosecutors to investigate how the clintons managed to rake in millions from the controversial sale of uranium one. we'll take it up with chris feral >>> congress will avoid a government shutdown. a house has approved a temporary measure to keep the government running and the u.s. sphwhait right now still voting on the bill. they're one vote short. we'll have a full report on that >>> and the trump administration tonight threatening to cut off funds to the united nations after the international body voted to reject president trump's recognition of jerusalem as israel's capitol. john bolton is here with more on that tonight >>> our top story and major development in the uranium one scandal, jeff sessions reportedly ordering the department of justice to look closely into alleged clinton collusion, determine whether a special counsel should be appointed to investigation, how the clintons raked in millions of dollars. fox news chief national correspondent ed henry has our report. >> not looking good. no

jeff sessions needs to get off hes dove. >> let's see. definitely a call for jeff sessions to do something about this and obviously would be keep withing what the president wants to do, greg. i will double back. california governor jerry brown, signed a bill designating california a sanctuary state. talk about that. >> well, oddly enough,s restrictive and abusive and illegal as that is because under the sepremacy clause federal government has the final say and province over matters of immigration. jerry brown is thumbing his nose at the law. san francisco is more restrictive than the state sanctuary policy. and both out abprosecuted by feds. >> there is a serious and significant, loss of life you hear the stories and you meet the mothers and the fathers and the family member who is suffered at the hands of crimes committed by illegal immigrant who is come in the country revolving door exhibiting res recidivism. repeat crimes and career criminals and nothing is done about it >> >> no nothing is done about temperature i want to add context

what position does this put jeff sessions in moving forward? shawna: i think it puts attorney general sessions in a position where it clarifies how president trump sees sessions and the department of justice as apparently something to protect him, not necessarily to protect the constitution or protect the law. and i do think attorney general sessions sees it as his job, historically, to protect the law and the constitution. and he once again puts jeff sessions in a very hard position of having to go out and defend the president when he needs to but also keeps saying the russia investigation has to be separate from me. it looks like he'll never be able to get over the hump about recusing himself from the russia investigation. robert: amy, what's your read -- you're an expert reader of the political winds in this country. how does president trump's base see this interview? his stance in this interview when it comes to his calm about the russia probe? elements on the right are spoiling for a fight right now when it comes to mueller but the presiden

it is crazy. >> what should happen to jeff sessions?. >> we need him to be tough.e needs to step up. jeanine: but he's not. what now?. >> he has been there for what he needs to do is open investigation into clinton we still not have answers. jeanine: stop. he said on november 13 we will consider looking at all of this uranium one. it is december 8 or something like that and the bottom line is you don't want to notice something should be looked at. >> i want action. so what about jeff sessions? the truth. >> what he needs to do is he needs to get tough. jeanine: i am not talking ms 13. >> i am with you but he needs to bring justice. >> he's not. >> but he needs to or somebody who can. >> apparently in charge of a lot of these investigations that jeff has recused himself from?. >> i don't know him i haven't met him i still wonder what his relationship is with james holder because there is a relationship that i am very concerned when that happens. >> they are part of the same club thanks for being with us tonight. >> street justice ahead democracy for america get a de

now with jeff sessions opening this, where do you think it could go? >> it's monumental. the question is what price did the obama administration and ultimately the americans pay for the iran deal. my colleague marianne grady has done phenomenal reporting on that. charles: and measuring what price we paid. that price will go up incrementally as iran gets access to nuclear weapons. >> it shouldn't matter what political party you support. any american should be outraged at what we continue to find out on a daily basis how corrupt these agencies are. the initiatives former president obama put into place. it's outrageous. with president trump i think all of this information -- they are all getting smoked out. the liberal media, the corrupt agencies. we would have had no idea if we had a president hillary clinton in office. charles: attorney general jeff sessions added while i'm hopeful there were no barriers constructed by the last administration to allow dea agents to bring appropriate cases under prong cassandra, this is a significant issue for the protection of americans. c

what happened, jeff sessions is going to investigate. this will be a bipartisan enterprise. and finally what should happen is operation cassandra should be revised. gregg: the prosecutions should go forward that president obama allegedly and his administration put a halt to. and there may be other crimes committed in the process. cliff may, thank you. merry christmas. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell is reportedly brewing that the republicans might lose the senate and house in 2018. tammy bruce and dom giordano give us their predictions. this wing suiter doing what has never been done before. we'll be right back. kids to get a repair estimate. liberty did what? yeah, with liberty mutual all i needed to do to get an estimate was snap a photo of the damage and voila! voila! i wish my insurance company had that... wait! hold it... hold it boys... there's supposed to be three of you... where's your brother? where's your brother? hey, where's charlie? charlie?! you can leave worry behind when liberty stands with you. liberty stands with

>> he is. >> the power that jeff sessions has is that he does not have to do anything.s federal standing. it remains a schedule on drugs. in doing so, there is still a lot of limitations against it. as you said california enacted its legalization law on january 1st. it is huge. california is the biggest states in america. there is still a lot of problems they are facing of the fires in california and millions of dollars worth of marijuana. there is no crop insurance for those farmers and additionally they are losing out on a lot of money and it is a gamble to grow marijuana when you cannot share your crops. marijuana being a federally legal substance, it means it can be traffic across state borders. so california should according to state law should remain in california. there is potential for a flooding up the market and lowering prices overall. so legalization as a whole is not like a golden road. there is still a lot of problems with it and i think they're trying to figure it out as they go through the measures. >> what's different of the number of americans receivin

. >> do you know -- >> about that -- >> did jeff sessions do that or encourage him? >> the president wouldn't have directed him to do that. that i'm sure of.

roy mower and doug jones are battling it out for attorney jeff sessions' vacant seat. alabama is heavily republican. donald trump beat hillary clinton 636 to 37. chief just stis of the alabama supreme court for refusing to enforce rules, the constitution that he felt violated h his christian beliefs. the write in votes are a big deal with the somebody else vote reaches 5 percent or more it could be critical to the outcome of the race. black voters are also important because they make up 25 percent of the population. the only democratic in congress has been pushing to get voters to the polls to vote for doug jones. evangelicals, their support of him has not waiverred in the wake of the sexual allegations. cliff young leads poll ster for thomson reuters. thanks so much for being with us . where do the polls stand right now? we know they can go up. they can go down. what's the situation as it stands right now in. >> it's always a rough one. the polls have actually been all over the place. some have shown moore up by ten, others have shown jones up by ten. we have mower up

jeff sessions out of there. >> desperately head over heels in love with jeff sessions is the country song waiting to be written, rachel. more breaking news. rachel maddow has a new boyfriend. >> i do. >> and he asked the question of chuck grassley at the town hall in i want to that rachel maddow would have asked if she was there. >> he knew exactly what he was talking about. he had the right follow-up questions and wouldn't let grassley get away without committing to it. beautiful. i love him. >> we're going to get you two together. >> susan will kill me. >> i hobbled in here on a cane tonight. we are but weeks away from you and me back in the dance floor saturday nights like we always do. >> gosh. >> in this town. you know? >> it's true. >> doing that, you know, jennifer gray/patrick swayze thing. >> we get to switch off who gets to be jennifer. >> that was our little secret until now! thanks, rachel. the scaramucci quotes today. >> even just trying to learn enough about human anatomy to figure out what he was suggesting steve bannon was doing with himself -- >> steve bannon can't d

speakers included jeff sessions and family members of the victims. this runs an hour and 25 minutes. today we remember not only our friends and family that were taken with this but a friend who had been with us. you may notice the change in the scene appear. usually there is a very tall man. even last year when frank dugan have become too ill to participate up front, he still hiked all the way up and sat in the audience at that time. he was still helping us with the planning and all the work done. of how old it gets. we had his picture appear but it doesn't do justice to the rather gaping hole that he left here when he passed less than two months ago. in fact, it has seemed like the last two months have been a series of revelations of all the work that frank did for me and without us even realizing it. i was a teenager before i realized that wasn't the case. we just absorbed frank and he stuck the way eventually good friend should stick like super glue. you may notice that things are different this year. we are adjusting to the loss. we are taking th

he's railed on the attorney general, jeff sessions, because jeff sessions has recused himself, not beingl" to him with respect to this investigation. i'm not going to make the final judgment on obstruction, but there's a lot of evidence that this president wants that stopped. >> one of the other things he said, he has an absolute right to do whatever he wants to do with the justice department. ranking membership of the intelligence committee says he doesn't see it like that. >> nobody sees it that way. the president of the united states does not have the absolute right to do whatever they want with the justice department. we are a nation of laws. we are also a nation in which the department of justice has stood apart and independent from the president. the justice department does and must serve the law and the american people and the constitution as a whole. not a man. you know, if we have the guys with guns, and we say the justice department, we're talking about guys with guns, serving an individual president, now we're a banana republic. this is -- what he said is deeply damaging to th

chaplain, the military color guard, our bugleer, our speaker, jeff sessions.axine, who are residents -- who arranges the dinner. syracuse university for sending all of their students and staff to us and helping us out every year. and the staff at arlington cemetery for hosting us once again. faye.ank's wife, chaplain major willie has been the deputy command chaplain for military affairs at arlington cemetery since june. his time serving in the military has included two combat tours in he has received two bronze stars metals and the combat action batch for being present and engaged by enemy forces during combat operations. please join me in welcoming the chaplain as he performs the benediction and afterwards the piper will play one more song before we close the program. thank you. chaplain? >> please join me in prayer. bless our gathering ward, with love,irit of unity and anoint those gathered here to do your purpose on earth. grant us the courage to champion the well-being of ourselves and our neighbors. enable us to have emergency life-giving service and to t

jeff sessions is not sure the displeasure's. and a contributor to the hill. thank you both.ecially the run appear to the holidays. before he hops on. it's a shame what happened to the fbi. it will be bigger and better than ever. on the ground a much different tone he strikes with the academy grads. he does not share the displeasure with the bureau and bring forth a little bit of a different viewpoint. on opposite sides with exactly how they are messaging. i think they would both agree that the rank and file of the fbi is doing a great job. i think the problem is there appears to be a small group of the top of the fbi who put the collective finger on the scale. to benefit hillary clinton by excusing her behavior. in assembling this dossier which was that as a very serious problem that attorney general jeff sessions needs to look at. we brought up something their import. president trump has talked about a level of anger within the bureau following the removal of peter stark. with the entire text scandal. and is under such scrutiny. the important members are speaking before on

. >> it's often forgotten, this is the attorney general jeff sessions's old seat. he has legal residence in alabama. how did you vote? >> i voted absentee, yes. i value the sanctity of the ballot and i would say the people of alabama are good and decent and wonderful people. i have been proud to serve for 20 years in the senate. they will make the right decision, i'm sure. >> i believe we call that a punt. he is hardly the first and won't be the last to use that. i'm not telling you how i vote. that's private. it would be nice to know. >> there is a republican running in there and you think he would support them, but a lot of people know moore will be a problem. one of the striking things for me is i was at one of the few rallies that roy moore had and moore got a bigger applause attacking mitch mcconnell. i don't think he has illusions about the fact that attacks mitch mcconnell helps him with his base. no reason to think he discontinues that. >> can i say something about jeff sessions? he has to be thinking about what happens to me if doug jones wins? one thing t

jeff sessions was the only real trumpian in the u.s. senate. it's not a place with populist firebranding railing about immigration and things like that and old five fashioned drug lawyers. that was the sessions caucus. there weren't that many people. now sessions went out there early e stuck his neck out early in the campaign for him and was treated like this within weeks of inauguration, who will be the next guy to go? the only person i can think of is tom cotton, who's willing to step up to that role. i think they're lashed together for the foreseeable future. >> good to see you. richard painter, thank you as well, sir. >>> suing the defense department. why three major u.s. cities say the pentagon is not doing enough to keep guns from people who should not have them. >>> and when harry met a former president. the new interview is out with a plea from president obama about social media and a couple of laughs as well. >> do i have to speak faster because i'm a slow speaker. >> no, not at all. but if you start using long pauses, you're probably g

jeff sessions on the outs with donald trump and there is evidence at least circumstantial evidence that the pressure on sessions to be in the good graces prompting him to undo the recusal. sessions said he would recuse himself not just from russia-gate and any investigation of hillary clinton. i believe the proper thing for me to do he said would be to recuse myself from any questions involving those kinds of investigations that involve secretary clinton. well, now, it appears that he's doing just that. >> i think, eric, you have a column pointing out the fact that sessions has done that, gone back on what he told congress he wouldn't do. undertake any investigation into hillary clinton. you know, when i interviewed hillary -- secretary clinton for my podcast, she said, whenever the president gets into trouble with russia, he always attacks president obama, me, meaning her, secretary clinton, and african-americans. and what we see right now is president trump going after hillary clinton consistently to throw smoke up to distract the american people from what's going on. but i'm going to

and i think he knows that what jeff sessions, or he believes, rather, jeff sessions did by recusing himself in the russia investigation, which, by the way, he had no choice to do given his role in the campaign, he feel that is that has cast a cloud under his administration. it's true, but it's part of his way of expressing that frustration. i think he thinks that what sessions has done is unforgivable. you keep hearing that. >> and paul manafort is caught up in the web of the special counsel investigation. it's so interesting to hear trump talk about it because he really distances himself. like he only worked for me for, quote, a few months. and yet this was a key player at a key time in the trump campaign. >> oh, absolutely. but you hear that repeatedly from people at the white house. and i think it is part of the strategy, it is the political and legal strategy, which is to distance the president from any of these people. he barely knows paul manafort. i have heard people at the white house say that he barely knew mike flynn who was his national security adviser. i mean, we have pictures