>> and president trump has repeatedly expressed his anger, congressman, that attorney general jeff sessions recused himself from the russia investigation. you're probably hearing some of our new reporting from kaitlan collins about scott pruitt's request to replace sessions. if the president were to do that, would that mean the end of the russia investigation? you do get the sense from scott pruitt that he does like to ingratiate himself with the president. >> look, he's done exactly what the president has told him to do at the epa. you can imagine the scenario here. he goes there with the singular notion of ending this investigation. to do that, i would imagine that he has to fire mr. rosenstein, who would bring in someone else who would fire mueller. i can't see any other reason he would do this, come to the rescue of the president of the united states under attack. when these senate republicans came out with this report today, that was a great first step. what they need to do now is to protect the mueller investigation. because this is additional evidence of the white house plan to end i

drugs, jeff sessions is fighting back. on ms 13, jeff sessions is fighting back. to protect religious freedom, jeff sessions is fighting back. attorney general jeff sessions has returned. a returned our country to rule of law. and gilman, we're proud to welcome the 84th attorney general of the united states, jeff sessions. >> please welcome the attorney general of the united's rates. -- united states. jeff: thank you. thank you all. thank you so much. it is great to be with you. i did get to see how big the crowd is. it reflect something serious about the strength of the conservative movement in america. it is strong and we will continue to be heard in public policy in this country. i really want to thank jeff can't and for that introduction. it was exciting, it got me charged up a little bit and the late afternoon. i appreciate his leadership for the fifth centennial institute. jeff worked at the senate republican conference when i served in the senate and i remain grateful for his service throughout years to the conservative movement. thank you to the centennial

on illegal drugs, jeff sessions is fighting back. on ms-13, jeff sessions is fighting back.o protect religious freedom, jeff sessions is fighting back. attorney general jeff sessions has returned our country to a rule of law. ladies and gentlemen, colorado christian university, the centennial institute and the western conservative summit are proud to welcome the 84th attorney general of the united states, jeff sessions. >> please welcome the attorney general of the united states. the honorable jeff sessions. >> thank you. thank you all. thank you so much. it is great to be with you and i know all these lights are bright, i have to tell you i got to see how big this crowd is. i'm thoroughly impressed. it's a nice increase i understand over last year and i think it reflects something serious about the strength of the conservative movement in america. it's healthy, it's strong. and we're going to continue to be heard in public policy in this country. i really want to thank jeff hunt for that introduction and it was exciting. it got me charged up a little bit in the late afterno

federal investigations directly appealed to president trump this spring to fire attorney general jeff sessions and let him lead the department of justice instead. coming at a time when the president's frustration at sessions over the recusal from the russia investigation was at an all-time high. sources telling cnn that pruitt proposed making him the acting head of the doj for 210 days under the vacancies reform act. his plan after that -- return to oklahoma and run for office. the president's aitds quickly shooting down the idea as his ethics scandals were piling up. trump standing by pruitt just last month. >> i'm not happy about certain things but he's done a fantastic job running the epa which is very overriding but i am not happy about it. >> reporter: this amid new allegations of pruitt's behavior. a cnn report revealing pruitt and his aides kept secret calendars and schedules to hide contentious meetings. an aide testifying before the house oversight committee that pruitt asked him to find pruitt's job at the republican govern nor's association. a "the washington post" report that pruit

the latest, he suggested replacing jeff sessions with himself.chief law enforcement in terms of the united states with the man with those ethical lapses and even the right may be now turning. laura i think gr laura ingram posting pruitt is the swamp. drain it. the frupruitt survive? >> the scroll you put up, we've been talking about pruitt and his ethical problems for months. for five or six months now. since we first learned he was getting that apartment, the cheap apartment from lobbyists. it is find boggling he still has a job. if he's inching toward the tipping point, how has he not gotten there yet? it's a marvel of donald trump's washington. and i think it says something about either the work he's doing or the fact that the president doesn't want to cave to sort of the chattering in the media about this. it's one of those two things. i'm not sure with? >> you've heard them say as long as he's gutting regulations they find onerous, that's the most important thing. the work he's doing plus the president doesn't like to be told what to do. he

his pension for twitter attacks on his attorney general jeff sessions and former fbi director james comey have become of interest to special counsel robert mueller and it could be the subject of a potential interview that mueller is seeking with president trump. all of this is happening as the president is still trying to clean up the mess that he made with his press conference of vladimir putin in helsinki. white house aides telling cnn that the president could be turning his attention to potential russian interference as early as this week. >> reporter: president trump's social media counter punching can soon become a legal liability. robert mueller is investigating the twitter attacks on jeff sessions and james comey as part of the probe into whether trump obstructed justice. >> the attorney general made a terrible mistake when he did this and when he recused himself. >> reporter: comey and sessions have become key witnesses in the probe because of tweets like this in june when the president said the russian witch hunt continues all because jeff sessions didn't tell me that he was goin

let's start with the scott pruitt conversation with the president involving jeff sessions. tell me what you know about that. >> reporter: several sources telling cnn that earlier this year, scott pruitt apparently asked president trump if he would fire his attorney general, jeff sessions, and at least temporarily put him in that role for some 200 days or so, according to the vacancies act, before he would then move back to oklahoma and run for political office. of course we know that president trump is publicly displeased with his attorney general jeff sessions, he's called him be leaguered before. it's not a surprise that he is pondsering a reforward-looking statement -- pondering a replacement. this on top of ethical violations. scott pruitt being investigated through 14 separate federal probes that we know of. it comes on the heels of recent reporting, a senior administration official telling cnn they believe that scott pruitt is inching closer to a tipping point with president trump. the white house has been open that the president has been closely watching some of the

we have more now on jeff sessions repeating "lock her up" and laughing off the anti-hillary clinton chants of young conservatives. sessions' speech was packed with a lot of red meat. >> he could have been reading a speech from his boss, donald trump. this had everything they look for. incendiary language and catering to voters. >> lock her up. >> reporter: at a high school conference for conservative leadership, students chanted lock her up, and the attorney general repeated the words. then he let it all hang out. >> freedom of thought and speech on the american campus is under attack today of all places. >> reporter: in a series of blistering attacks, he tore into universities in general and by name, cornell, kansas, william and mary. >> they have safe spaces, optional exams, grade inflation. some schools are doing everything they can to create a generation of sankigity moan yu super sill yus snowflakes. >> reporter: university took hits, noting harassment, bullying, bias, and saluted arguments that restrictions go much further. >> they also forbid speech that's interpreted as demeaning,

we know the president has been displeased at jeff sessions for a long time for refusing himself. scott pruitt offered to be the next attorney general. and it's called -- he essentially would have filled the position for a couple hundred days under the vacancies act. it takes a confirmed member of the cabinet who is a lawyer to replace a fired attorney general. of course the president has not fired the attorney general. this didn't come to pass. scott pruitt was volunteering to be the acting attorney general. he said after his time is up, he would go back to oklahoma to run for office. of course, a lot of things have happened since then. he is still the subject of some 14 separate investigations into all types of wrongdoing. so the president declined that offer. but it certainly interesting that he was making the offer, perhaps looking for a different type of exit because he certainly in the hot seat still at the epa. >> i can't wait to see what the next cabinet meeting looks like. also, the president promises a big announcement on the supreme court nominee just days from now. we

rosenstein, he convinced jeff sessions jeff sessions to recuse himself. he doesn't have the political will. the political will to go in there and put together a grand jury. >> maybe there'll be some changes. >> you are right, and you know about prosecutors. look, it has to change from the top. i don't want to say that the president will have to be the bad guy, there shouldn't be this crisis. rod rosenstein has to be removed. he is running the mueller investigation. we know how broad that has gone. he got cute with jim jordan yesterday. he can answer these questions. he said i have a hundred and 15,000 employees, i don't know. he is just one. that is nonfun sell nonsense. everybody ought to be mortified on to what has been uncovered. >> judge jeanine: smart guy. gentlemen. it has been great. coming up, we are less than a week away from president trump's announcement for who he will announce. henry is here with an update on that. and then, tammy. stay right there. ♪ we used to get excited about things like concert tickets or a new snowboard. matt: whoo! who

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tweets about jeff sessions from last july, when the president was privately trying to get sessions to quit and publicly launching an entire attack on him to basically intimidate him and undermine his contribute. they want to ask him about his tweet when he said comey better hope there's no tapes. that is something that prompted comey, comey said he had a friend of his leak memos about his interactions with trump after that came out. these are different statements the president has made. mueller wants to ask the president about the maria bartiromo interview, that the president put out that he's not under investigation, he certainly raises questions about his job. these are questions about public statements that mueller does want to ask him about. >> to a certain extent, this notion about a president's social media feed can be used to demonstrate intimidation. is that uncharted territory? or is this something i'm just not familiar with? >> i think it's probably something new, but we are in a new world, and in the old days you had to either do it by either telephone or in person. you had

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it seems like he is constantly pounding jeff sessions. to interview on his behalf and yank mueller out of his tweet. >> there is no twitter/client privilege in the law. so that is not going to save him. who would be so stupid to say something everybody could see. >> that is what rudy is saying. he is saying he must be innocent because he is doing them openly. >> right now, he feels -- >> i know road scholars. >> he feels embolden to move forward. this goes to the judiciary committee and you look at that land of misfit toys. he thinks i am not going to pay a penalty because they are not going to hold me accountable. that changes in november. they see him as a wrecking ball and want to be protected. >> "the new york times," showing the president telling his fixer lawyer to pay in cash to playboy model karen mcdougal. >> i'm all over that. when it comes to the financing. >> listen, what financing? >> we'll have to pay -- >> no, no. >> no, no. any trump's legal team advance an interpretation. as the times reports in the white house version, t

la pregunta es si jeff sessions aceptarÁ la propuesta. ramÓn: gracias, marÍa.anera celebraron la reunificaciÓn de la madre guatemalteca y su hija luego de ser separadasen la frontera texana . albertina contreras fue liberada luego de que donald trump firmarÁ una orden para ponerle fin a la separaciÓn de familia. alejandra sota -- soto nos enviÓ el siguiente reporte. alejandra: sonrisas de oreja a oreja en la cara de esta guatemaltecos que fueronre unificados con su padre. jenny gonzÁlez fue separada de sus hijos en la frontera con mÉxico en marzo, llegar estados unidos pidiendo asilo. >> en primer lugar le quiero agradecer a dios que fue el que me ayudo a soportar todo esto. >> estÁbamos tristes, pero ya estamosfelices. >> hemos levantado casi $200,000 para fianzas para las mujeres que han sido separadas de sus niÑos y encarcelados en centros de detenciÓn de ice. alejandra: varias madres e solerÍa -- solidarizaron con la causa. >> tenemos 22 madres que esperan salir bajo fianza o bajo palabra. necesitamos el apoyo de la comunidad latina. reportera: otra madre l

i hope that jeff sessions has not learned about what pruitt is trying to do to him.w why it was a good idea to pick a fight with an attorney general. i can't imagine he will be in the job much longer. >> i'm not sure he has much self awareness or compass that leads the requests that he makes. had is shocking. we make light of it because it is so jaw dropping. the requests that he made, the first class travel, the demands he made, it is so imperial. his deputy is a coal industry lobbyist, surely he could do it just as efficiently as skcott pruitt. >> bottom line is what he has done at the epa. as someone that is carrying out a more conservative agenda about pairing back, it is in sync with the part of the party that has been strong on the issues. the president has been able to withstand a lot to this point. it is very difficult to see how pruitt can survive this. it is only because in his view he has done such a good job at the epa. there are those who take a very dim view of what pruitt has done. and there are those that are very supportive who think that rolling bac

one thing to note about jeff sessions is he's not just talking about it.s not just complaining about the snowflakes that under him the justice department has pursued cases at public schools where there's potential first amendment violations. it's going beyond talk about the issue which even president obama agrees and has come out against on several occasions. he's pursuing first amendment cases which i think is a big deal. the more substantive pushback there is, the more the schools have incentive to stop treating children this way. >> nikki haley was at the event, kudos to charlie kirk for getting to the people at the same panel. >> real leadership is about persuasion and movement and bringing people around to your point of view, not by shouting shutting them down but showing them how it's in their best interest to see things the way you do. >> what you think she was saying? >> think she's trying to establish what a good leader should be which is someone who doesn't necessarily have everybody on board all at one time but they work using faxon data and per

but the challenge to jeff sessions should be, you're reopening this case, but how about the fact thatrately said they're pulling back from investigating cases of police corruption today. you look at what's happening all across this country and that's been a problem. he tried to crawl out of baltimore. jeff, great, reopening of this case, but why don't you look at the emmett tills of 2017 and 2018 and 2016. he still has not made a decision of the eric garner case, not under obama and not under jeff sessions. he shouldn't be called out but they should reopen this case. >> the fact is the trump administration has been criticized pretty heavily for lack of sensitivity to minorities, african-americans in particular. might this be a corrective step? it didn't seem like you would agree with that by your previous statement. >> i respect roland's authority on these matters. we have a slightly different take on this, perhaps. but the important thing is the infiltration of political influence into the justice system. while president trump is enter. jeff sessions is taking the justice department

attorney general jeff sessions has taken a very weak position on hillary clinton crimes.re are the e-mails, the dnc, the intel leakers? he's tweeted at james comey before. the story says after several tweets against sessions, an aide to sessions said they wanted one negative article in the media about comey every day. the question for bob mueller, is that the president trying to pressure the fbi director to do something that ends up getting in the way of investigation, or is it, as rudy giuliani would say, the president has every right to fire people who work in the administration, so what. >> going back to the idea of an interview, it seems like there's very little he could be asked in an interview that he hasn't already come out and commented on in public, often in mind-blowingly inflammatory or revealing ways. this is why every lawyer who tells a client under investigation, shut up. don't say anything. don't comment on the case. don't talk about it, even to your friends, much less to the world. but that is not donald trump's m.o. that clearly could come back to bite hi

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now at choicehotels.com >>> we've long known the president is frustrated with attorney general jeff sessionm the russia investigation. tonight we're learning that the scandal-plagued epa administrator scott pruitt urged the president this spring to fire sessions. he had a bright idea about who could replace him, scott pruitt. kaitlan collins joins us with what she learned. kaitlan, you broke this story. what's going on here with this somewhat odd suggestion by scott pruitt? >> a stunning turn of events, john. and now we're learning more about why it was the president over the last few months has been floating the idea to his aides and advisers about replacing sessions with scott pruitt. it's because scott pruitt went directly to president trump during this meeting in the oval office, and he suggested firing jeff sessions, putting him in at the department of justice where he would stay for about 210 days under the vacancies reform act which allows someone who has been senate confirmed and is an agency head to take over a position like that, and then he told the president that after those day

he asked the president to fire jeff sessions and appoint him attorney general. we heard that scott pruitt was angling for the attorney general's job. we heard heard that from sources who said it came from his office. i sktd him, he said it was 100% false, never asked the president to fire sessions and appoint him attorney general. another story came out that, he had asked his aids to try and find his wife, marilyn, a high paying job. all of that in connection with the travel and the security and the phone booth which pruitt told me, he wanted a secure line to talk to the president. the president called him one day and he didn't have a secure line. unless he walked down two floors and half way across the building to what's called the secure compartmental sensitive compartmentalized facility. he wanted something in his office and gave to it a couple of bureaucrats who came back with a $43,000 price tag. there were simple explanations for a lot of these things. neil, one or two or five things? you can weather. but when it gets to 14, gets difficult. you can see wha

. >> tras ordenes de jeff sessions, el lunslnes, las cor f federales acusaran as pe personas que no tenganlos cunato antes . >> estando listo para que la corte federal de san diego pr procese 50 casos mÁs al dÍas de personas indocumentados. >> somos dos o tres abogados que hablamos espaÑol. >> el es uno de los abogados que representarÁ a inmigrantes que serÁn juzgados bajo la operaciÓn n(nombre en ingles() s i la orden de jeff sessions e que las cortes federales, los procuradores generales apunten a las personas documentos. >> la idea es que quienes crucen por primera vez sean procesados y deportados lo antes posible,. >> es para criminalizar a las personas que entran y el proceso legal que es una manera de deportar masivamente. >> quienes no podrÁn ser deportados, por lo menos pronto serÁ los migrantes que ingresen al paÍs de forma reincidente, podrÍan tener largas penas de prisiÓn. >> para una persona que entra mal las consecuencias son de seis aÑos. >> podrÍan terminar tan pronto como en un dÍa. >> veremos rÁpido la superaciÓn de los millones deportados en la administraciÓn de obama. >>

of all the o'jays of jeff sessions department of justice attorney general is actually investigating this that's what's really shocking about this story it is pretty sure i'm amazed it's almost as if has no one told jeff sessions that this is a lie that going on because i don't feel like this is something that came across the stuff that's my personal opinion in my humble opinion i don't think this is something he was like all we really got to get on this is a civil rights nightmare. but because the case was so swiftly acquitted these two main suspects who as you said there's a lot of documentation that they later admitted that they did it and despite some pretty damning eyewitness testimony a lot of people are seeing a lot of clear parallels between emmett till and trayvon martin a few years ago when some kind of resolution to this decades old murder helps you in some of the tension that's given rise to you know modern movements black lives matter and it's you know in the black eyes matter movement. well i mean you would hope you know i it's hard because on one sense i want to say that li

trump's tweets about jeff sessions and james comey. >> reporter: that's right, wolf. the president's penchant for attacking his political opponents could be causing him more legal troubles. his attacks on attorney general jeff sessions and former fbi director james comey have come under mueller's scrutiny. and they could be a subject of conversation with the president if they were to sit down for an interview. and all of this as we're learning that the president is still trying to clean up the fallout from his helsinki press conference with vladimir putin. president trump's social media counterpunching could soon become a legal liability. special counsel robert mueller is investigating the president's twitter attacks on attorney general jeff sessions and fired fbi director james comey as part of the probe into whether trump obstructed justice, "the new york times" reports. >> the attorney general made a terrible mistake when he did this and when he recused himself. >> reporter: comey and sessions have now become key witnesses in mueller's probe because of tweets like

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jeff sessions is an embarrassment, a disgrace. he should be ashamed of himself and he's not fit to continue to be the attorney general of the united states of america. the notion that the top law enforcement officer in the nation would entertain that type of reckless rhetoric, those folks need to get over the fact that the presidential race in 2016 is over and perhaps with russia's assistance, donald trump is the president of the united states of america. they should be more concerned about the illegal activity, the conspiracy, the collusion, the behavior that was taken place by paul manafort and michael flynn and papadopoulos, carter page and the other individuals who have either pled guilty, indicted or tonight to be under investigation. this is a distraction that is designed to divert from the fact that there's a serious, ongoing criminal investigation taking place that could expose one of the most gravest conspiracies to take place between individuals and a foreign power ever to occur in the history of the republic. >> interes

the president's targets include attorney general jeff sessions.in june, the russian witch hunt hoax and continues all because jeff sessions didn't tell me he was going to recuse himself. i would have quickly picked someone else. so much time and money wasted in so many lives ruined. sessions knew better than most that their was in collusion. five months after this video was shot, james comey was fired. we later learned that, he gave memos, some containing classified information to a columbia law professor and his two lawyers. at least one of them documented a conversation with a president was given to a times reporter. on may 12th 2017, the president tweeted, james comey better hope there are no tapes of his conversations before he starts looking for the press. the house secretary said that twitter line inquiries wiry smacks of desperation. >> if we are starting to investigate people for mean tweets in washington, d.c., we will need a whole lot more special councils. the mueller probe is so baseless they are literally down to trolling tweets. >> a

justice robert mueller is analyzing president trump's disparaging tweets and statements about jeff sessions and james comey. the focus whether the actions add up to attempts to obstruct the investigation by intimidating witnesses and pressuring senior law enforcement officials to tamp down the inquiry. mr. trump has expressed frustration. the president tweeted sessions was very weak and told the wall street that i'm very disappointed in jeff sessions. the president again lamented his choice. >> the attorney general made a terrible mistake when he did this and when he recused himself or should have let us know if he was going to recuse himself. we would have put a different attorney general in. >> the president took aim at former fbi director james comey asking the then fbi director to publically state that he was not under investigation which comey refused to do according to comey. weeks later the president fired comey claiming he had been disappointed by his actions in the hillary clinton e-mail investigation. the president later admitted when he made the decision to dismiss comey he was t

jeff sessions laughing about hillary clinton going to jail.ll of that is very appealing to a certain segment of the electorate that's already in his pocket. it's a very strange impulse if you think about it. once again he's showing that he has no taste for expanding beyond his base. and his numbers are in the low 40s. republicans have to run in a ditch political atmosphere in november, in the midterm elections. and when he feels put-upon, rather than trying to find a way to appeal to the people who aren't necessarily turned totally off to him but aren't with him, he goes way back into his own base. >> is it fair to ask, does he not have a taste for democracy? i ask that not just with this and his affinity for strongmen, affinity towards vladimir putin and jailing his opponents. today with tariffs, he decided with a stroke of his pen to give a big bailout to farmers. >> the tariffs thing, using the pen from the white house, sort of suborning legislative authori authority, we have to go back to obama who really accelerated this process, and he i

you voted for jeff sessions. and then you got hit with criticism not just because people didn't like jeff sessions, they didn't like you as a black person voting for jeff sessions. >> you are a disgrace to the black race. you are an uncle tom scott. you're for sessions. how does a black man turn on his own? i left out all the ones that use the n word. just felt like that would not be appropriate. >> just talk a little bit about you as a human being, son of a proud mom, being subjected to that kind of rhetoric in your present position. >> one thing i had to learn to deal with as an african-american who wants to be clear and concise even about my conservative underpinnings is i get tacked on both sides. it is painful. it hurts. anyone who loses the sensations, they have this thick skin where nothing penetrates, that's problematic from my perspective. if i can't feel the sting when it is supposed to sting, if i don't try when it is sad, if i'm not elated when it's good, th that's not a good thing. we become so desen

preu it appealed to the president aoing him get rid of jeff sessions as attorney general so that preu i himself could temporarily take over and run the department of justice. under t vai casey's reform act he'd beea allowed tod the doj for 210 days. after that he'd go back home toom oa and run for office. the president has expressed frusttion with jeff sessions in the past over hisci deon to recuse himself fro the russia probe. he attorney general made a terrible mistake when he did this and when he recused himself and he certainly should have let us know if he was going to recuse himself and we would have put a different attorney general in. he made what i consider to be a very couible mistake for the . advisors quickly sho downreu it's proposal to re plac sessions. the fact that the administration k muchithin remarkable consideringhe numberf scandals involving him . reu it i facing at least 14 federal probes and last not presid at wassked what would it take for him to say enough is enough and say you're fired? not h like heasn't practiced that one enoug scott preu it is doing a grea

. >> he suggested firing jeff sessions and putting anymore as attorney general. >> i think we would be putting a bigger swamp creature in there. >> authorities are seriously looking at putting full face oxygen masks on these boys. heavy currents, cramped passage ways. >> they could be stuck in there for four months. >> this is a personal edition of "new day." >>> good morning. welcome to this very special edition this morning. >> it does feel like a holiday, we have some holiday levity here. >> 242 years old, america, happy birthday, america. so the president has it wrong. the house has it wrong, the republican lead senate intelligence committee says that the intelligence community was right, that vice presideladimir interfered in the u.s. election to help donald trump win the election. >> another installment of "as the stomach turns. an official says that truth is "tipping forward toward the tipping point." let's start ab by phillips. >> the senate intelligence committee just released a bua bipartisan that rush is that did medal in the election to help trump it. this report comes on t

attorney general jeff sessions has taken a very weak position on hillary clinton crimes where are e-mails and dnc leaker. i think everyone is conditioned on the attacks of comey. we don't think of sessions as the one that could undo the president in the obstruction probe. >> the president was furious with sessions for recusing himself in the russia investigation. the president wanted -- he said openly in the white house, he wanted someone loyal to him to be overseeing it. he tried to get sessions to resign. he tried to get him to go. the president didn't want to be seen politically as firing him. when that failed, he undertook a public exam pain exactly a year ago today where he went after sessions and galvanized the far parts of the right against him to try and pressure him as much as possible. so what mueller wants to know is why did he do this? what was the motivating factor behind that? >> joyce, let me bring you in. we've all witness and had watched the slow motion train wreck that is rudy giuliani and donald trump's character assassination against jim comey. but it seems like that e

you are not doing it out in the open, tweeting about jeff sessions is not obstruction.t's not what this case is. is that the same way that federal prosecutors would see it? >> not necessarily. i think it typically that may be the case with most perpetrators of obstruction, but with the president in particular we've seen that he rarely does anything in private or discreetly. there is not much that he doesn't put out there on twitter. so it seems to me that there is a lot of circumstantial evidence that looks a lot like obstruction. i think the bigger issue for the mueller team will be can the president in this context commit obstruction or is that just something a president can't be charged with. that's more of a legal issue. >> talking about obstruction, rudy giuliani is now telling the special counsel that if they want an interview, they can ask about collusion, but they can't ask about obstruction. this would be about obstruction. can they get any information from the president? >> if you look -- what happened in march is that the president's lawyers went in to meet w

michael schmidt writes that mueller is scrutinizing tweets about jeff session and james comey. mueller is examining whether the actions add up to attempts to obstruct the investigation by intimidating witnesses and pressuring senior law enforcement officials to tamp down the inquiry. mueller wants to question the president about the tweets. trump has been prolific in his attacks on both sessions and comey on twitter and in public comments and that's just the start of it. the times notes the president's written and verbal criticisms and actions could be woven together. the wall street journal reporting that the trump organization's chief financial officer allen weisselburg has officer allen weisselburg has been subpoenaed to testify before a federal grand jury in new york in the michael cohen investigation. in the name sounds vaguely familiar, it may be because we heard his name earlier this week. >> i've spoken to allen about how to set the whole thing up with funding. yes. all the stuff. you never know where he's going to be. >> michael cohen talking to donald trump about alle

attorney general jeff sessions announces a religious liberty task force with one session -- to attack lgbt queue people and other minorities. kelly shackle berg, of first liberty institute is one of the groups the left says been given a license to discriminate. where in the world is next. or break a trip. and at expedia, we don't think you should be rushed into booking one. that's why we created expedia's add-on advantage. now after booking your flight, you unlock discounts on select hotels right until the day you leave. ♪ add-on advantage. discounted hotel rates when you add on to your trip. only when you book with expedia. >> attorney general jeff sessions announcing the justice department creating a religious liberty task for saying western culture has become less hospitable to people of faith but some on the left greeting it with skepticism like this editorial in the daily beast headline jeff sessions's religious liberty task was declares holy war on lgbt people. let's talk about it with ceo and president of first liberty institute. one of the groups the left says has a license to

the president has enjoyed trashing his attorney general jeff sessions with him which we'll talk abouther. >> nothing can be more fun. >> look, pruitt has accomplished things that the president is happy about in terms of redelegation. pruitt is also a favor of some of trump's key donors so it shouldn't be a surprise to anybody that he's survived this long. i think trump's aides would like that get this done more than trump. i've had people say trump is focused on other things, it doesn't take much to read a h d headlihea headline and say this person has to go so for whatever reason while we have been hearing every week that this is going to be the week that he's gone, he's not gone. >> that's the midwest phiing part. there are other people that can take over deregulation. >> there weren't. that is true now, that was not true for a long time because they didn't have the deputy epa director confirmed. once they got a person they they felt was theirs, then --. the deputy could take over. >> somebody deeply embedded with the industry that the epa exists to regulate so one would assume that

that is stunning considering the way he treated people, like jeff sessions, who the president has beenated with for almost a year now, a little more than a year now. sessions recused himself of the russia investigation. but it will be interesting to see who the president seems to value more. but here he is, saying scott pruitt is resigninging after what aides thought happened six or seven scandals ago, it just now is happening now. the president has accepted his resignation, his deputy is going to take over at the epa, that will certainly be something interesting to come, but it's surprising that it did take this long for this to happen. >> a lot of people are wondering what took them to long. you're making the assumption that he's doing his job. >> and there's lots of other people that -- certainly he came around to that thinking. we just should remind earn, cabinet secretaries serve at the pleasure of the president. they stop serving the minute the president is no longer pleased. obviously president trump was done with scott pruitt has the epa administrator. and, yes, i think that th

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from jeff sessions. we have it. he was speaking to a group of conservative high school students this morning. i want you to listen to this. >> lock her up. >> lock her up. lock her up. lock her up. >> i mean, the fact that you have the head of the department of justice, the attorney general here laughing and also chanting at one point, lock her up, of course, one would assume regarding hillary clinton, something that michael flynn led that chant as well on the stage of the convention. the significance of that? >> look, this is still top of mind for the president. we heard him bring up hillary clinton last week in helsinki standing next to president putin. it's still a chant that we hear break out at all of his rallies and his appearances. >> but by the attorney general? >> to me, that sounded like a sort of reaction of what am i hearing here. it seemed like he was trying to laugh that off. certainly, if you are in the administration now and you are jeff sessions, who is on thin ice with the president, you will embra

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. >>> and scott pruitt denies a new report he asked the president to fire jeff sessions and make him attorney general. it's yet another damaging headline for the epa chief and the white house as "the 11th hour" gets under way on a tuesday night. >>> good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. i'm ali velshi in for brian williams. we begin with a new bipartisan report from the senate intelligence committee, which unequivocally backs up the findings of the u.s. intel agencies that russia meddled in the 2016 presidential election with an eye toward helping donald trump win. specifically the committee said it agrees with the conclusion that russian president vladimir putin ordered an influence campaign for the u.s. election, that the kremlin had a clear preference for trump, that it discredited hillary clinton and contrasted her unfavorably to trump, and that by july 2015, russia had already obtained access to democratic national committee networks. the senate committee also said the intelligence agencies' overall findings were well-supported and said there w

you know, he told the president, supposedly, that you should get rid of jeff sessions. if you do get rid of jeff segsz, i'm happy to step in there. he of course had been the attorney general of oklahoma. >> a guy under 13 investigations thought he was a good fit to run the justice department. i mean, where are we? we're like at the bottom of alice and wonder land's -- where are we? >> that will certainly take care of some of the investigations, right? might as well be the guy in charge of the investigating department if you're going to be under so many of them. it's a remarkable thing. it tells you a lot about his attitude and his view of himself. all these scandals, in fact, a lot of them anyway indicate somebody who had a great deal of self-regard, somebody who thought he was entitled to not just first class air service and a $43,000 phone booth or what have you. he thought he was entitled to be the attorney general of the united states. that's the job he wanted when he came to washington. i think he only took this one thinking it would be a stepping stone to that one