a lot of people in alabama look back and criticize jeff sessions, people who used to be loyal to jeff sessions. now criticize him, because they believe he made the wrong decision to recuse himself. but going back to that point about if matt whitaker is advised to recuse himself from this, jeff sessions had been advised to recuse himself. he didn't physically have to. but it would have looked really bad if he had not recused himself. >> he was part of the campaign. >> and that was his argument. president trump didn't see it that way. so even if matt whitaker is strongly advised, you need to recuse yourself because of the comments you've made about the mueller investigation, it raises the question of if he feels he has the backing of president trump and doesn't have to, will he do that? >> and his temporary status really is a disincentive for even the ethical offices at doj to say that he would be required to -- if it was not the appearance. jeff sessions was slated to be the attorney general for presumably a four-year term if not for consecutive terms, if the president got re-elected.

now, mitch mcconnell privately met with jeff sessions last week. we tried to ask sessions as he leaving if he discussed the possibility of resigning with mitch mcconnell. he did not comment at that time. now today i got a chance to ask mcconnell directly if he were comfortable with the prospect of jeff sessions stepping aside. >> would you be comfortable with sessions being replaced? >> it's not up to me to tell the president who to put in his cabinet. they serve at his pleasure. and if he makes changes, we'll be dealing with whoever is sent up. >> reporter: so not raising any concerns from the senate majority leader about the prospects of making this replacement. ultimately this is going to be the senate's control moving forward, as they plan to push forward with whatever investigations here. democrats themselves were caught a little surprised by this news, even if it seemed inevitable just a few days ago, guys. >> all right, on capitol hill, thanks so much. we'll come back to you in a bit. i was talking earlier about watergate and the saturday nig

september 3, president trump blasted jeff sessions for charges against gop congressmen. september 4, the bob woodward book "fear" alleged that president trump called him a traitor for recusing himself. same day, president trump called sessions a dumb southerner. judge napolitano with analysis. >> as we know, the president has been on a vendetta using language that is typical to him and offensive to people not even involved with this in order to push back with jeff sessions. it's clear that something happened. either he's had this resignation updated, this updated resignation letter -- >> shepard: sounds like that is possible because i have new reporting just came in. this new reporting just in to fox news channel. john kelly broke the news to jeff sessions, not the president. john kelly made a phone call to jeff sessions this morning and informed him of this. that's new reporting. >> here's the dilemma that you asked me and i referenced senator schumer and senator graham. if they asked for a resignation of jeff sessions, was done for a bona fide governmental purpose becau

jeff sessions is an absolutely critical witness on the o obstruction of justice part. t he had some of the context that mueller has been investigationing. >> sessions, even after recusing himself as the attorney general overseeing the russia probe he probably saw and heard and was a witness to other stuff going on that potentially mueller is interested in. >> he's certainly a witness to all of the treatment against himself and all of the instances in which he was asked to unrecuse. i think it's a fair question to ask. why is the president so fixated on you unrecusing. if this was all for naught and there is nothing to see here and the president did nothing wrong why does he want jeff sessions to unrecuse so badly. i think that's a question for the. . sessions went in earlier this year. we reported that. he went in months ago. a lot has happened since january. as we know he has been the subof blistering attacks and the president's ire has not abated on that fronts. you can see a situation in which mueller would want to talk to him again. >> i suspect they've spoken. forg

jeff sessions is out. his letter of resignation says that he's resigning at the president's request. >> what does that mean to you, pete? that's the first line, at your request i am submitting my resignation. >> right. meaning that he didn't want to leave as attorney general and he's only going because they have asked him to. i think this was the plan all along. my understanding is that jeff sessions assumed that this was going to happen in some form after the midterm election, that he would get a call from the white house saying it's time to go and that's apparently what has happened here. so someone -- the chief of staff or someone called him up and said, okay, time for you to pull the plug. i think mr. sessions anticipated this. there were signs in the last couple of months that he was realizing that his time as attorney general was coming to a close, so, you know, as i said earlier, i think the only surprising thing about this is the timing, happening the very day after the midterm elections. >> i hear

jeff sessions. never took control of the justice department. and it's a -- sort of an incredible thing. >> reporter: sessions rarely pushed back. >> the president speaks his mind. he says what's on his mind at the time, and he's been frustrated about my recusal and other matters. but we have been so pleased and honored to be given the responsibility to execute his agenda at the department of justice. part of that is just this kind of case. and so i am pleased and honored to have that responsibility, and will do so as long as it's appropriate for me to do so. >> reporter: picking his moments carefully, and vowing in august that the justice department will not be improperly influenced by political considerations. publicly, he advanced the president's most controversial immigration policies. privately, a source close to sessions tells cnn, he too has been frustrated that mueller's investigation is not yet completed. and the attorney general hopes he will be remembered for never undermining the integrity of the department. with sessions now gone, hi

again, the president had publicly ridiculed jeff sessions, so there certainly was an expectation at the justice department and the white house that eventually sessions would go, but aides have been urging the president to wait until after the midterms. however, timing was surprising at the justice department as well. in fact, u.s. attorneys across the country, d.o.j. employees only found out because they watched tv, they saw it in the media. they were given no official notification of the fact that jeff sessions had given president trump his resignation letter, which is pretty extraordinary, if you think about it, but sort of fits in the theme of how the president handles these firings. oftentimes, it's not him doing it and oftentimes people find out from watching the news. worth noting that john kelly was the one in this case who asked jeff sessions to hand over his resignation and our reporting is that sessions had asked him if he could stay on for the rest of the week but john kelly stayed firm with him and said, no, he needed to do so today. >> evan, nancy pelosi's already -- and th

jeff sessions out. not surprise here.he news was delivered to jeff sessions by chief of staff john kelly. matt whitaker, he is acting attorney general and he will oversee the russia investigation. president announced promotion for whitaker via twitter after sessions submitted his resignation letter. the president assailed sessions more than a year after sessions excused himself from the russia investigation. the president said before all this became public, no one should be surprised if changes are coming with his cabinet. listen here. >> as we make changes we'll sit down and talk to you about it. there is no great secret. a lot of administrations mick changes after midterms. we're happy with this cabinet. we're doing a good job. reporter: that was wide-ranging news conference hour 1/2 he would work with democrats over the next couple years. i asked the president about the possibility of middle class tax cuts and whether or not he would be open to the idea of bumping up the rates, the tax rates for corporations and the we

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attorney general jeff sessions has been fired. ollows months of a dysfunctional relationship mr. trump and hisop legal official which became strained after mr. sessions recused himself from the russia investigation. but today came the final blow. just hours after the results of the midterm elections. here's a look at how things played out. essions: make america great again. laura: jeff sessions was an early trump loyalist, the first u.s. senator to endorse s presidential run. but postelection, he ran into trouble after his confirmation hearing as attorney general when he said russians during the 2016on electi campaign. i afterwardst was revealed that sessions had actually met more than once with russian and so the attorney general had i do this. atty. gen. sessionave now decided to recuse myself from any existing and future investigations of any matter relating in any way to the campaign for president of the united states. laura: by recusing himself from overseeing the robert mueller inquiry into links between the trump campaign an

attorney general jeff sessions resigning at president trump's request. nt already naming sessions' chief of staff matthew whitaker is acting attorney general. sources telling fox news whitaker is in charge of everything at the doj, including the russian investigation. this resignation follows president trump's news conference today where

attorney general jeff sessions was an early and enthusiastic supporter of donald trump's bid for the white house. now when that bid succeeded president appointed his loyal supporter attorney general. but in his confirmation hearings sessions failed to tell the whole truth about a campaign error meeting he had with russian ambassador surrogate his lack session stunned washington. in with this statement in march of two thousand and seventeen and that is to do with it is was there any. investigations even. if. you know. sessions move enraged trump who saw it as enabling the probe into whether his campaign colluded with the kremlin to win in two thousand and sixteen trump publicly taunted and denigrated his attorney general often in june he tweeted the russian which on hoax continues all because jeff sessions didn't tell me he was going to recuse himself i would have quickly picked someone else of course sessions had no idea he would recuse himself when trump offered him the job but once he did he couldn't interfere in the russian probe or fire special counsel robert mueller who reports t

matt whitaker basically seems like the exact opposite of jeff sessions. ssions also posted a photo of himself power lifting but it wasn't as impressive. ( laughter ) we've got to get all our short jokes in now. now or never, they're done. apart from being former u.s. attorney and looking like bane during the off season, one other thing about whitaker that probably makes him the perfect pick for president trump, he shares a similar passion for business ethics. >> matt whitaker the now acting attorney general after jeff sessions was fired, he's now linked to a company referred to as a scam. rule patent marketing billed itself as helping investors secure patent and whitaker was hands on showcasing a hot tub invention for a company that has since been shut down and slapped with a $26 million fine from authorities snowho. >> trevor: he will be interrogating bad guys like, tell me who your partner is! you are. yeah, we had a good run, didn't we? ( laughter ) if you think whitaker looks familiar, you either just cleaned your bedroo your bathron watching a ton of

jeff sessions to resign. it's effectively a firing, even though technically sessions willingly submitted his letter of resignation and now he is going to be replaced as acting attorney general by his chief of staff matthew whitaker. >> we have the actual letter from jeff sessions, the attorney general, to the president. "at your request, i am submitting my resignation." those are the key words. and then he goes on to say "since the day i was honored to be sworn in as attorney general of the united states, i came to walk at the department of justice every day determined to do my duty, serve my country. i have done so to the best of my ability, working to support the fundamental legal processes that are the foundation of justice." >> so, first of all, we should change the chyron, it should say president trump fires attorney general jeff sessions, the president asked him to submit his resignation. he was fired. he's doing this one day after the election, doing this with a senate that is more republican, he feels

much as it was under for jeff sessions. jeff sessions, ultimately, decided on his own per the ethi ethics counsel at the department of justice that he should recuse himself. the ethics folks could go to whittaker and say, hey, we see issues here. the president put me here, i'm doing what the president told me to do and essentially taking over this investigation and this deparetment of justice which is going to be entirely, everything there will be overseen by him. >> yeah, shimon, stay with us. joining us now is former federal prosecutor laura coates and former nixon white house counsel john dean. carl bernstein. and cnn chief legal analyst, jeffrey toobin. jeff, you say this is the president, himself, essentially taking over the mueller case. explain that. >> well, the -- robert mueller is an employee of the department of justice and understood the regulation he is to be supervised as an employee of the department of justice which means it's usually the attorney general unless the attorney general is recused. now because t

our top stories jeff sessions' disastrous tenure as attorney general has ended. ay resigned at the request of president trump. we'll have the latest tonight on who replaces sessions at the helm of the troubled, corrupt justice department? >>> and the future of the mueller witch-hunt. sessions allowed to run wild under his watch. >>> also tonight, president trump's tireless campaigning and support of republican candidates turning back the much ballyhooed blue wave, it turned out to be not much of anything at all. thes

privately calls jeff sessions "mr.e attorney general, but we will see what happens. time will tell. time will tell. captioning sponsored by comedy central captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org (pam) w.b. jones is renovating their offices, and their construction crews are taking up some of the parking spaces we used to get. (jim) so we had to park at a satellite parking lot over there. which just means we get to see more of our lovely street. tell them what we saw today, jim. oh, today we saw a junkyard dog attacking the bones of a rotisserie chicken. nature. i've been here nine years, and now all of a sudden

jeff sessions the u.s. attorney general who just stepped down has got some new friends liberals and progressives across the country are taking to the streets to protest his removal it's over nine hundred cities that are having protests a major mobilization but was jeff sessions a friend of progressives hardly jeff sessions that i was a zero rating for the human rights campaign on gay rights a guy who asked the department of the national council of nannies why they were buying so many books on islam the zero tolerance policy means zero humanity and it makes zero sense for his political or motivated voting fraud prosecutions to his indifference toward criminal violations of civil rights laws back in two thousand and sixteen when jeff sessions was first nominated the liberal organization known as move on dot org issued a petition opposing him they accused him of making racist comments opposing equal pay for women immigration and opposing hate crimes legislation this is how jeff sessions confirmation hearings w

>> i think the last time i saw jeff sessions was maybe a couple of weeks ago, jeff sessions, any time somebody was leaving, to go on to a new opportunity he would be sure to come down, say good-bye, tell him how much he appreciated their work, that's a kind of he was. >> harris: i wanted to ask about his demeanor, there was so much talk about whether he would leave after the midterm elections, but he was jovial on that occasion as and a supportive guys you've always seen him in that role? >> he's not someone that watches tv, he's not on twitter, he's focused on the job. one of the things that was most important for jeff sessions was support for law enforcement and he really enjoyed getting out there, going to visit u.s. attorney's offices, getting to meet with state and local law enforcement, that was a big part of the job for him. something that hasn't been reported on too much, every time all law enforcement officer lost his or her life in duty, that family got a letter from the attorney general, every single time over the past few years. >> harris: a letter from jeff sessions, and

attorney general jeff sessions has been fired. omes hours after the midterm elections, and was an abrupt end to the tumultuous relationship between the president and jeff for more, i'm joined by a federal andhi-collar criminal defense attorney. what does the departure of jeff sessions mean for theer probe? >> it is hugely consequential, and first i would like to say that this is not surprising in and of itself. i think the timing of it is quite surprising, but we know that trump has been harboring ill will, shall we say, with jeff sessions since the beginning. he alw that he recused himself on the russia investigation, which prompted deputy attorney general rod rosenstein to oversee the probe. now all of a sudden in firing sessions, or asking him to resign and him accepting the resignation, that leaves it open for trump to put somebody in the position of overseeing the probe other than rosenstein. laura: we know that the acting attorney general willma bhew whitaker, who has set in the past that d replacement for sessions could effe

against donald trump's decision to fire attorney general jeff sessions. medaling investigation is now under threat. and the u.k. government continues to face a backlash of the. it is accused of placing gag orders on experts investigating the tragedy which left seventy two people dead. direct from our studio this is our national certainly glad to have you with us right now police in the u.s. say they have identified the gunman who killed twelve people in a crowded bar in the small california city of thousand oaks on wednesday now they have named the suspect as twenty eight year old local resident david long he had served in the marines and reportedly suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder police say he was known to them for minor offenses and had been referred to mental health experts back in april long's motive for the shooting is not known here is how witnesses described the events i was on the dance floor dancing i do anyway. you know and then all my friends are at the table right by the door and then they turn your i heard the gunshot i turned ar

donald trump fired jeff sessions for one reason because if you look at jeff sessions' policies they wereald trump. they only disagreed on russian investigation. only reason he fired jeff sessions was to put in someone who would interfere with the special counsel's investigation. that looks like obstruction of justice, the same way firing james comey was obstruction of justice. >> then the congress, both chambers of congress, both chambers of congress, meaning the senate and congress, haven't had many checks on this president basically on this administration basically. he's able to with a blank check able to do whatever he wants to do. what do you say to the folks who say they're not going to do anything differently than they've been doing over the last couple of years? >> that's one reason democrats had a blue wave empty house of representatives last night. people wanted to put in a check and blaebs on the president of the united states and his administration. come january, the house of representatives is going to be a coequal branch of government. we're going to act like it and make sur

that the special counsel russia investigation must be be protected now that the president fired jeff sessionsral who in the past spoke out about the investigation. nancy pelosi and schumer called for matthew whitaker to recuse himself. jay nadler said sessions' firing fits a clear pattern of interference by the president. joining me now is senator chris coons. a member of the senate judiciary committee. senator, thanks for being with us. today you tweeted the president crossed a red line by firing sessions. doesn't the president, though, have the authority to fire anyone within his cabinet? >> anderson, he does have the authority to fire members of his own cabinet. what he can't do is fire members of his own cabinet and replace them with partisan loyalists going around the succession procedures for the department of justice in an attempt to influence or impede or end the special counsel's investigation. so if it's done for an improper purpose, he shouldn't be doing this. >> cnn is reporting tonight that for whitaker, ending or trying to stop the russia probe, for now you say he should recuse

first of all, jeff sessions, i'm going to hold it up here to get clear of the graphics, jeff sessionsent this letter to the white house chief of staff. the first line of it says this. at your request, i am submitting my resignation. the letter is addressed to the president, but it was delivered through the chief of staff. there's no -- curiously there's no date on the letter, so i don't know when jeff sessions wrote this letter, but he presented it today. again, it says at your request i am submitting my resignation. then he goes on to say what a pleasure it's been to be attorney general. what he thinks he's done as attorney general, some of the things that he believes he's accomplished. he concludes by saying i've been honored to serve as attorney general and have worked to implement the law enforcement agenda based on the rule of law that formed a central part of your campaign for the presidency. thank you for that opportunity, mr. president, and it's signed jeff sessions. so the man that the president has apparently chosen to act as attorney general, matt whitaker, is a former u.s.

privately calls jeff sessions "mr.he attorney general, but we will see what happens. time will tell. time will tell. captioning sponsored by comedy central captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org (pam on phone) well, i should go. all right. i'll tell everybody here that you say hi. no, don't. i'm mad at them. [chuckling] why? what happened? not one of them called to congratulate me on our engagement. ah. that they might be off the hook for, because i didn't tell them. what? why not? [chuckles] i just didn't, you know, want to deal-- come on, it won't be that bad. okay, you know what? here we go.

morning on president trump's decision to push out as one of the papers says, of attorney general jeff sessions. jack in providence, rhode island , a republican. what do you think? morning.i, good i believe the attorney general was in over his said. secondly, i believe rosenstein used him because overall, sessions is an honorable, brave person. this other gentleman, mr. whitaker, he is only in temporarily and i see brennan -- they are already getting nervous. he is not in permanently yet, there will be another man and they are talking about this gentleman ratcliff from texas as the possible choice when the .enate sits down what they are going to have to worry about in my opinion is another special counsel. new attorney general appoints another special counsel withvestigate this thing the dossier and hillary clinton busting up her iphone. those are clear crimes. that is up structure -- obstru ction of justice. host: is that who -- what you want to see from whoever replaces jeff sessions? caller: i want to see the truth come out. president trump keeps saying it is a hoax. he would know. this why

a day after the election, trump fired attorney general jeff sessions.anyiring has led to comparisons between trump and former president richard nixon. on wednesday, cnn's jake tapper called sessions ouster another chapter in "a slow-motion multi-monthed saturday night , massacre." he was referencing the infamous saturday night massacre in 1973, when then-attorney general elliot richardson and his deputy resigned after president richard nixon ordered richardson to fire the special prosecutor investigating the watergate scandal. amy: for more, we continue our conversation with elizabeth holtzman, former u.s. congresswoman from new york who served on the house judiciary committee that voted to impeach richard nixon. for over 40 years,s, she had the record of eating the youngest woman ever elected to congress. her new book "the case for , impeaching trump," is out on monday. still with us, david cole. massacre.ay night as you are watching this unfold yesterday, liz, you must have -- you must have been flooded with memories. >> oh, yeah. it is not just happy

the new tweet coming "we are pleased to announce that matthew what are, chief attorney general jeff sessions at the department , will become our new attorney general of the united states." let me click back and get back to what the president had to say here. monitorin hold on. wishes jefft's iv sessions well, but jeff sessions has resigned as attorney general. a letter to the president from the outgoing attorney general's "dear mr. president, at your submitting my resignation. i came to work at the department justice everyday determined to do my duty and serve my country. i have done so to the best of my ability, working to protect the principles of justice that are the foundation of justice." you for thenk opportunity, mr. president." we have breaking news the day after the. 2018 midterm elections. we have coverage continuing throughout the afternoon and evening getting your reactions. let's update you on the balance the senate. republicans regaining control with 51 seats, 46 democrats. independents caucusing for the very in challengingk scott bill nelson for his seat. right now, rick scott

president donald trump has fired jeff sessions, the attorney general, after publicly parading himselfversing the alleged russian meddling in the 2016 u.s. elections. that paved the way for robert mueller's investigation and will be replaced now by his -- for now by his chief of staff. what does this mean for the russia probe? >> now, you have s someone in charge who is a donaldld trump loyalist, he will oversee the justice department. until this point, ron rosenstein has been over -- overseeing the pressure probe because jeff sessions recused himself because of his support for donald trump during his 2016 support for donald trump an undisclosed meetings with the russian ambassador leading up to the election. you have a donald trump loyalist who said the investigation being overseen by robert mueller has gone too far. talk about speculating in an interview about the ability to stop the investigation by stopping to find it -- fund it. is nowld trump oil acting -- loyalist the acting attorney general. does this mean the investigation will stop? >> the justice department says it will cont

has anybody ever heard of senator jeff sessions? reporter: a movement that led to a budding bromance. >> i am pleased to endorse donald trump for the presidency of the united states. >> reporter: and in his speech on election night, trump credited sessions with helping lead him to victory. >> he's as smart as you get. senator jeff sessions. >> reporter: sessions was one of trump's first cabinet appointees, just ten days after the inauguration. >> wso help me god. >> reporter: sessions' recusal soured his relationship with the president, eventually leading to bitter public outbursts, questioning his ability to do his job. >> if he was going to recuse himself, he should have told me prior to taking office. and i would have quite simply picked somebody else. >> rs' deputy, rod rosenstein, was put in charge of the russia probe. after the president fired fbi director james comey. for the past year the president continued to lash out against sessions, tweeting, why aren't the committees and investigators, and of course our beleaguered a.g

firing of jeff sessions. replaced by what looks like a loyalist who is on the record for narrowing in this probe. where does this rate in comparison to 96 season. >> ari, if this is going the way this looks, this is ten times worse than nixon because, let's look, if this leads to let's say the firing of robert mueller or the substantial limiting of this investigation ten times worse than nixon because let's look at what donald trump has done here. let's first look at the supreme court. he now has a five justice majority on the supreme court the fifth justice is the one person of all those people on that federal society list that has the most extreme views of permitting a president not to be investigated, not to be indicted, not to be subpoenaed, used pardons to help himself. there is no doubt in my mind why brett kavanaugh is on the court tonight because donald trump wanted him to be reliable if a trump case could come to the court. remember, that was a vacancy that donald trump created by encouraging anthony

jeff sessions forced to submit a red nation letter. catching top white house fishes off guard. the phrase you're fired. punting to his chief of staff to give sessions the boot. john kelly didn't do it face to face. but opted by phone. kelly refused to grant sessions request to stay on until friday. matthew whittaker who started chief of staff. finishes as acting ag. over seeing the mueller investigation. are leaving the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein

the president never clicked with jeff sessions after that session's recusal. the president has politically humiliated jeff sessions just a day now after the midterm elections. >> just want to reintroduce the team, all of the election teem back at hq >> was it already priced in from the point of views coming fairly quickly as a result? >> i think it was widely expected this change would take place. it has been telegraphed by several including lindsay gram there has always been the question of if the president intended to do this why doesn't he do it there is potential for political backlash now, he is doing it immediately after the election as democrats are preparing to take corral of the house. >> he may be deciding i will risk the backlash because the alternative and they can intervene using majority i will go ahead and test it now. we could be commencing right now the process of a slow motion attempt by the white house to unravel thisinformation. >> what are you going tell us about sessions resigning >> i think that this was very telegraphed. i don't think t

jeff sessions resigned a few hours ago after a call from the president's chief of staff. he departed the department of justice with a handshake to his acting successor and applause from the crowd as you're looking there gathered in the courtyard. the move coming following a split decision in the boat for the midterms, some verbal haymaker's throne at the presidential news conference. it was a busy day, we start off with chief white house correspondent john roberts. >> up until about 2:30 this afternoon, the news was all about the midterms and how president trump had lost control of the house. after the president held a lengthy news conference to go through all of that, he decided to shake up the etch-a-sketch and create a brand-new headline. [applause] moments after the news first broke on fox, president trump confirmed that attorney general jeff sessions was out and that matthew whitaker, chief of staff to attorney general jeff sessions will become our new acting attorney general. the president went on to thank jeff sessions for his service and wish them well, adding tha

recusing himself blew up donald trump has vilified jeff sessions he's called them names he's called them beleaguered has given him a hard time on twitter and the story around washington was that jeff sessions gave donald trump a letter that was undated which was all about his all about his giving his rest resignation and there's no date on this letter no of course the other story over he's talking about whether they should or lot is about the media and we are part of the media and yet in the firing line again there's nothing new about what and how donald trump is treating the media but he seemed very on edge about the way the media were asking him questions that press conference. exactly and the most jaw dropping moment in a news conference that was surprising was undoubtedly when he accused the reporter of asking a racist question the reporter asked the question it wasn't a racist question but donald trump decided to see and the way he sees the media is very much the enemy because they don't report what he wants to report and the problem is that donald trump says things that aren't

>> jeff sessions -- yes. because jeff sessions still has some people who really care about him. >> interesting. >> and to bring in and to bring in this new person who is nothing more than a kiss-up operative is such a slam, you know, at the whole institution that a lot of the senators still respect. so i think if people in this country stay engaged. and one of the good things, you know, about this presidency is, because of the trump so many got engaged on all sides, people don't like obstruction of justice as a general rule. >> yeah. >> and i want to just say one quick thing if i could, we call it a point of personal privilege in the senate. >> please. >> that is, thank you, america, for a blue wave in the house, for a blue wave on the governorships, and a little mini, i would call it, you know, red wave in the senate, but not as much as we could have seen. and also all the women who got elected. so anyway, i thought i'd say that because donald trump changed the subject so fast no one had two minutes to refle