a move that jeff sessions resisted. two days later, trump publicly attacked sessions. hmmm.d the piece. it is about how pirro and trump have known one another for a very long time and how she has become not really a news person, but just an advocate who is on cable. >> yep. speaking of cable, let's talk about that sort of surreal interview with the vice president over the weekend. >> yeah, great segue by the way, brooke. that's professional on your part. i would never, never be able to do that kind of thing. here is -- this is unbelievable. if you missed it, you were at the beach, didn't -- you need to see this. this is our own jake tapper on "state of the union" on sunday with the vice president of the united states, mike pence, talking about climate change. let's play that. >> do you think it's a threat, man made climate emergency is a threat? >> i think the answer to that is going to be based upon the science. >> well, the science says yes. i'm asking what you think. >> there's many in the science that -- >> the science community, in your own administration, at noaa, at t

let's talk about jeff sessions' recusal. it is well known, then attorney general jeff sessions following the device of the department of justice ethics officials recused himself on march 2, 2017, from investigations related to 2016 presidential elections. page 51 of the report goes on to detail a meeting between the president and attorney general and it says, quote, that weekend, sessions and mcgahn flew to mar-a-lago to meet with the president. sessions recalled that the president pulled him aside to speak to him alone and suggested that sessions should unrekus from the russia investigation. so, former prosecutor joyce white vance, what do you make of that? >> recusal is not an -- a question that the justice department considers infrequently. recusal, conflict concerns come up in all sorts of situations. maybe as a prosecutor, you knew someone personally or your family owns stock in a bank so you recuse from that case and when those situations come up, the prosecutor's obligation is to go to the office in the justice depart

could you have roy moore and jeff sessions?he fun question perhaps then, what would president trump decide to do in that scenario? >> the bottom line is he's running, susan, and we've seen a long line of folks who have left washington. as a republican, you defy the president at your own peril in this party, and we've seen a lot of people we never thought would get in lock step with this president get in lock step with this president, but what does the president do if roy moore says i don't care, i'm running? >> he can be against roy moore and he should be actively against him. he's worried -- the president is not worried about the makeup of the stha senate. he's worried about how this affects him. looking at what happened with suburban woman he would be better off making sure roy moore decided not to run. >> how does he do that? >> he can actively aggressively tweet. he's tweeted once or twice. there's a lot more. we see the president is upset at someone, he can treat roy moore the way he treated jeff sessions, let's put it tha

any thoughts about jeff sessions jumping into that race? rep. rogers: i love jeff sessions. he is one of my favorite people on the planet, but i think he has moved on and has no interest going back to the senate. he is enjoying private life and being with his family. susan: you have been a chief supporter of the creation of a space force. would you give the audience your rationale of why this is the right direction for our military defense to move in? rep. rogers: we have become heavily reliant on satellites in our daily lives, whether you are doing banking transactions or using your smart phones or watching tv. we have become very reliant on satellites, and most people do not realize that. the truth is the military has as well. we use them for command and control of our nuclear weapons, for the gps system for positioning our troops, guiding our missiles and uav's. there are a whole host of things we use satellites for, and it is very entrenched in every one of our services. our adversaries have recognized that as well, china and russia in particular, and they have put a sig

he said if i had one do over, i would not have appointed jeff sessions as attorney general. that was my biggest mistake -- those were the president's comments. guest: when we think of everything that has happened in the past two and a half years, it is interesting that the president draws on one of his first decisions that he may have made before the inauguration. it was one of his first decisions as president. i immediate a think of republican senators who have ardently defended jeff sessions, who feel as though he may have withmistreated or treated not a lot of respect by the president, and wondering what they thought, to hear that. host: something to ask them this week? guest: exactly. it is interesting to see him point of that moment. guest: jeff sessions chose to recuse himself from bob rodler's investigation, let rosenstein oversee that investigation. the minute he announced that, the relationship with donald trump was over. various hung on for reasons. a lot of political pressure on the president, who did not fire him before he eventually did. but that shows you where

i feel like i can't see president trump endorsing jeff sessions for senate.ee happening is them just sitting it out. >> i mentioned that vaughan hilliard, our colleague here at nbc news is doing that exclusive interview with roy moore. it's happening as we speak but we've been able to pull one of the early questions that vaughan asked. i don't want play for you that first clip exclusive with moore. >> i think they need to know him who i am. there's been so much press written about me that's false, malicious. i have it every day. in fact, there's nothing i can do about it. it's so widespread. and there was a disinformation campaign, for example, in 2017 in december that put out false information that's gone viral. and i can't stop it. i've been married 34 years to my wife. we have four children, five grandchildren. i'm a family man. i'm a farmer. rancher, chief justice, former chief justice, judge. but people have gotten a completely different warped aspect or warped perception, i should say. >> that sounds a lot like moore's position or attitude back in 2017

jeff sessions worst mistake he made. those are people to blame if things aren't going right. >> and let me start there because he mentioned jeff sessions but he first said personnel. how this week evolved, he's grappling with iran but doesn't have a defense secretary in place. this decision to pull back on his threat of ice deportations and of course jerome powell, taking aim at jerome powell and dangling the possibility of demoting him to the number two slot. this has hovered overhis entire administration. it can continues to plague him as he makes these critical choices. >> all correct. i agree with everything you said but mostly what i saw is he loves this. he loves talking, interviewing. he's loaded for bear. he's thought out the foras he's going to take in the future and i have hawks and sympathetic or supportive of the idea that he's thinking about this. and he listens to them and then he makes it decision. i tell you i don't believe he ever will. the person that i'veinate viewed and known for a long time and his p

false narrative on air force i about the trump tower meeting or venting against bob mueller or jeff sessions, those words prove his intent. so hope hicks -- and i do think this represents a loosening of the iron grip that trump has had on these witnesses trying to tell them, do not testify because when pat cipalone says she has absolute immunity and she should not set foot in that hearing room, hope hicks has defied that. they're going in there and they're going to begin testifying, so i think this is something of a loosening of the grip the president has thus far had on these witnesses. >> greg, do you agree with that? just because hope hicks is walking into the building doesn't mean she'll say anything. we rarely hear from hope hicks, but she did an interview with forbes just before the president took office in 2017 and i want to share what she said. >> on the politics of watching are two different things. so i think now being a novice is much more jarring to me than being a novice on a campaign, because there are so many people new to it, they're also trying to figure everything out as it

and soon after that meeting, trump again publicly attacked jeff sessions. sessions lost his job, but pirro didn't get hers either. she's more effective for him on the outside. >> what was he supposed to do, take a gun out and shoot putin? putin said, i didn't meddle in your elections. the president should say, hang on, let me execute this guy. >> did it get trump elected? no, did it change one vote? no. everybody needs to snap out of it. "curiouser and curiouser," said alice. "the rabbit-hole went straight on like a tunnel for some way." "i've seen a cat without a gri, but a grin without a cat." hey, mercedes, end audio. change lighting to soft blue. the completely reimagined 2020 gle. with intelligent voice control and available third row. your adventure awaits. visit your local mercedes-benz dealer for exceptional lease and financing offers. mercedes-benz. the best or nothing. we're oscar mayer deli fresh your very first sandwich,m... your mammoth masterpiece. and...whatever this was. because we make our meat with the good of the deli and no artificial pr

jeff sessions, worse mistake he made. those are peoplef to blame i things aren't going right. >> let me start there, chuck. he mentioned jeff sessions, but he first said personnel. i thought that was notable. look at how this week evolved. he's grappling with iran but doesn't have a defense secretary in place. hasn't had a permanent defense secretary for six months. he's dealingith what's happening at the border, this decision to pull back on his threat of i. krmplgc.e. deportai ta aim at jerome powell and dangling the possibility of him to the second spot. you're starting to see him line up the excuses, but it continues to plague him as he makes these critical >>choices. hat did you see there, peggy? >> all correct. i agree with everything you said but mostly what i saw was he loves this. he loves talks. he loves interviewing. he's loaded for bear. he's thought out the forrays he's going to take in the future. i thout the mostinteresting thing he said was, i have doves and i have hawks. explaining his iran decision this

and that was to allow jeff sessions to have more control over the investigation and the mueller reportut. hope hicks basically confirms that that incident in fact happened. >> and she just -- why do you think she would say odd and not concerning. she thought concerning that per jortive implications and odd didn't. >> yes, that's my reading of why she said it that way. and i just want to note, that there was so much more information she could have given had the department of justice and white house officials not objected 155 times to the testimony. >> so i want to ask you about something else on the hush money payments. she was asked and answered -- my questions about some of the payments because they happened a part of that story happened again before the election. payments to karen mcdougal and stormy daniels. so from the transcript, congressman jackson lee asks hope hicks did mr. trump ever direct to you make public payments about the hush money payments during the campaign? ms. hicks, i was directed to make a public statement denying that a relationship existed. o between fl trump a

take attorney general jeff sessions. >> therefore, i have recused myself. s earlier he had recused himself from overseeing this russia probe becse of his own undisclosed contacts with the rssian ambassador. the presidepeatedly pressured sessions to unrecuse himself and retake cotrol of the investigation. ent mueller finds only a reasonable inf, not asecific evidence, that this meant to protect the predent. >> next, michael flynn and paul manafort. mueller investigated whether mr. trump floated potential presidential pardons for them ir r to influence their .estimony or cooperation with the special couns mueller writes, "the evidence regaing flynn is inconclusive. but with manna ford, the evidence indicates mr. trump wanted manafort to believe a pardon was possible. of the. >> andic finally, mhael cohen. mueller looks at whether the president directed his lawyer to lie to congress about plans to build a trump tower in moscow. the rep says, "while there is evidence the president knew that cohen has made false statements," mueller also writes, "the evidence doe

and soon after that meeting, trump again publicly attacked jeff sessions. in the end, sessions lost his job, but pirro didn't get hers either. she's more effective for him on the outside. >> what was he supposed to do, take a gun out and shoot putin? putin said, i didn't meddle in your elections. the president should say, hang on, let me execute this guy. >> did it get trump elected? no, did it change one vote? no. everybody needs to snap out of it. >>> in the era of trump, it's so very easy to forget that there are actually two sitting republican u.s. congressmen who are right now as i speak to you facing a bevy of federal felony criminal charges. one of them is chris collins of new york state who is charged with insider trading and he's set to face trial early next year. the other is none other than the vaping congressman, duncan hunter who has truth be told had a bad run of things. hunter stepping over a vehicle barrier he was presenting marked the u.s.-mexico border. even though it is squarely within the united states, was indicted last year along with h

let's talk about jeff sessions' recusal. it is well known, then attorney general jeff sessions following the device of the department of justice ethics officials recused himself on march 2, 2017, from investigations related to 2016 presidential elections. page 51 of the report goes on to detail a meeting between the president and attorney general and it says, quote, that weekend, sessions and mcgahn flew to mar-a-lago to meet with the president. sessions recalled that the president pulled him aside to speak to him alone and suggested that sessions should unrekus from the russia investigation. so, former prosecutor joyce white vance, what do you make of that? >> recusal is not an -- a question that the justice department considers infrequently. recusal, conflict concerns come up in all sorts of situations. maybe as a prosecutor, you knew someone personally or your family owns stock in a bank so you recuse from that case and when those situations come up, the prosecutor's obligation is to go to the office in the justice depart

so hicks was asked about trump ordering the former campaign manager, corey lewandowski, to urge jeff sessions to un-recuse himself from the russia investigation. and this is -- the transcript says, quote, get my glasses here. chairman nadler, sitting here today, do you find it concerning that the president today -- that the president asked mr. lewandowsky to deliver a message to the attorney general? ms. hicks: concerning would not be the word i would use to describe how i view that. chairman nadler: well, in any way problematic? ms. hicks: i view it as odd. was it odd, or was it obstruction, john? >> what was odd was the way the question came about. nadler was weaving his way through a bunch of objections, and as soon as she responded with her answer that she found it odd, her lawyers objected to her explaining what she meant by odd. i think what she was trying to convey is how odd the campaign was, don. i think if they just came forward and testified, they really didn't know what they were doing. it was a branding operation, and they were hopeful of winning, but they had no real organizatio

if it would be one do-over, i would not have appointed jeff sessions as attorney general. >> that in your mind -- >> yes. >> is bill barr your -- >> i think he's a very talented -- >> you always said, where's my -- >> i had many, many lawyers. roy was one of them. he was a tough guy. >> cut from the same cloth, do you think? >> bill barr is equally as tough. he's a fine man. he's a fine man. the job he's done is incredible. he's brought sanity back. i think he's real. i don't think, i know. he's respected. he loves the department of justice. he saw what was happening. he has done a spectacular job. now he's in the process of doing something and i stay away from it. i really -- i stay away from it. but i think he feels that what's

lou: president trump calling the appointment of jeff sessions as attorney general the biggest mistakef his president -- presidency. sessions resigned after the 2018 midterms having recused himself from robert mueller's special counsel investigation, his witch hunt, and bringing zero, zero indictments against any members of the deep state or the radical dems who were persecuting and remain persecuting the president. well, my next guest says president trump will act to secure our border and not bow to radical dems' inaction and opposition. joining us tonight congressman matt gaetz, member of the house judiciary and armed services committees. great to see you, congressman. first of all, the news that the mexican government, president lopez obrador has ordered 15,000 of his troops to northern border, the u.s./mexico border, to take responsibility in securing that border. i think that is extraordinary, extraordinary achievement. >> well, mexico knows that the trump administration means business. and frankly, it's been past time for mexico to stop acting like a turnstile for the human traff

he's talking about jeff sessions. this play out last week with pat shanahan, the acting defense secretary, where all of a sudden all of these issues started to bubble -- >> he had personal family issues that go way back. >> personal family issues. >> well known. >> the president last tuesday told us -- the reporters at the white house that he had only found out about those issues the night before pat shanahan with drew himself. we asked him, is this a vetting problem? why are you just finding out now? he defending his administration's vetting. so it was very interesting to see him come out on "meet the press" and acknowledge that personnel was an issue and continues to be. >> well, former new jersey governor chris christie who was in charge of the transition before he was replaced by mike pence was asked to read his own file and respond to the leak. let's watch. >> and just to be clear, these are the suggested questions that the vetters wanted you to be asked by the president or rinse priebus. >> do you believe your p

now, one episode did come up, which was the recusal of the then attorney general jeff sessions who oversaw the mueller probe. the president wanted sessions to unrecuse himself, to go back and oversee the mueller probe and according to the mueller report he had koergs wiconversations w former campaign manager cory lewandowski to essentially direct jeff sessions to move and oversee the probe again. hope hicks according to the mueller report was aware of this. she was asked yesterday behind closed doors about that episode and called it, quote, odd, the whole episode. when democrats tried to drill down further saying, why was this odd? that is when the white house attorneys came in and they objected. they said they would not respond to those questions. one other thing was that in the mueller report it alleged that donald trump jr. had told a larger group of individuals about the lead about dirt on the clinton foundation in the days before that now infamous june, 2016, meeting at trump tower with the russians. that contradicts what donald trump jr. had said in sworn testimony that he only told

we've learned from attorney general barr that the special counsel appointed by jeff sessions hasn't done much of anything at all and has deferred to independent -- or the inspector general. lou: john huber, is that right? >> yeah. john huber, the u.s. attorney out in utah. he's been awol on all these issues -- lou: can you explain that? do you have any idea what he's been doing all this time? is. >> well, he was hired specifically by jeff sessions because there was pressure for a special counsel. huber was the answer to that, and he was tasked with investigating whether to investigate. it's no surprise to me as a result nothing much has been done. lou: you -- it's a trite expression, is so i won't use it, but i have to say it's just stunning to see what the top officials of the justice department and the fbi have gotten away with. they have successfully, i believe, run out the clock. i will be absolutely stunned, tom, if indeed we see any kind of productive investigation of some of the people who are, just based on the information that we see in the texts, a all of them, it looks as if t

lambasting sessions for the recusal and saying how could you let this happen, jeff? ed sessions to resign and he agreed. now, this is the stuff that democrats want to put in the public record. keep in mind, if you believe the mueller report's evidence from trump's own people, this is the stuff that could have undone the presidency. there could have been a saturday night massacre. hope hicks told mueller the only time she saul trump that upset was when the access hollywood tape came out. trump appeared desperate to try to get control of the investigation as it took down his advisers and saddled him with the highest prosecution of any president at this point in their term. the sessions recusal made the effort harder, mueller probing whether trump's attacks were trying to make his life so miserable he might leave giving trump the chance to pick a new boss for mueller. >> so jeff sessions takes the job, gets into the job, recuses himself, i then have -- which frankly, i think is very unfair to the president. how do you take a job and then recuse yourself? if he would have

when james comey amon testified, jeff sessions when he was attorney general, think about michael cohen appearing earlier before committee on capitol hill, those will be worked by this one, this might be the biggest hearing we've had on capitol hill. i talked to a couple republican lawmakers, they found out about the subpoena on the house floor from other members and the speaker's lobby on the vote on the border security bill. some republicans think democrats are trying to make the point before the start of the august recess but republicans will have serious questions, try to undercut mueller, ask about the text messages between lisa paige and peter heather nauert he and the steel dossier. >> the special counsel has said the 400 pages plus report is my word on everything and i'm never going to talk about this again. the fact that he's reached an agreement to speak, there is a lot in their. >> there is precedent for this because kenneth starr did testify on the star report with bill clinton in the late 1990s. shannon: the results will be the same, being able to hear from the special coun

jeff sessions went to congress. getting him to say i will not put journalists in jail for doing their job and he could not get those words out of his mouth , it was really not a reassuring day. then he came back and did the same performance later. there certainly is a different attitude now. we have not seen a real ramp up. they have not been targeting the press. they have been forcing people in these past eight or nine years to expose sources, but they have been going after the people in the government. this is kind of the same story is liable. it is about webinars and lawsuits. investigations are not really about protecting national security secrets. they are about getting the message under control. i am a rules guy. i am a lawyer. really important. even with they are violating, it's important in the democracy. >> do you think the judge should not prosecute cases in which really important information comes out? >> no. obviously, there are legitimate secrets. there are legitimate secrets. if they are exposed, they

trump's demand to ask then attorney general jeff sessions to unrecuse himself.e president's actions of firing the then fbi director james comey. trump's efforts to dismiss mueller from overseeing the probe. allegations the president sought to curtail the mueller probe. okay. that's a lot. right? and probably more. what do you -- tell me how that makes a difference. with all of these subjects. >> well, those all sound very familiar and it's because they are the points of obstruction that mueller considered and told us about in the mueller report. so they're really trying to get to the heart of what she knows, what additional evidence she can provide on those topics. there is another thing, too, the campaign finance violations, right, the hush money payments from -- >> stormy daniels. >> before the election. that is something that nobody should be able to tell her she can't testify about. there is no privilege. there is no immunity. maybe we'll see her shed a little bit of light on that incident as well. >> the stormy daniels and mcdougal payments. both of those p

this is 2001, mueller responding to then senator jeff sessions who urged mueller to circumvent doj brass ever felt an investigation was under political pressure. here he was. >> i do not exclude the possibility that the circumstances would be such that i would feel it necessary to circumvent the ordinary course of proceedings by which would be to go to the attorney general first before i made a disclosure to congress. but i am not precluding the possibility that given the necessary independence of the bureau in investigation, there may not come a time where one seeks an alternative where one believes that political pressure is being brought to bear on the investigative process, that may be somewhere else in the executive, beyond the attorney general. it may be congress, but i would look and explore every option if i believe the fbi was being pressured for political reasons. >> his carefully crafted words on asserting his independence as fbi director seems almost eerie now. what is his response then to how he might handle similar questions. >> it's a fascinating exchange with jeff session

she was in talks about a job and that she believes jeff sessions blocked her from it. that's the reporting from "the post," that sessions intervened to make sure that she didn't get a job in the doj. maybe it's a coincidence, but maybe not. she went on the war path against sessions right on television, of course in line with president trump's talking points. here's a little bit of what pirro said on fox after being rejected for the job. >> what, ladies and gentlemen, is unmistakable in all of this is that the single most dangerous person to the agenda of president trump, the republican party and ultimately to all americans is the attorney general of the united states himself, jeff sessions. the man has done nothing to make anyone responsible for the blatant corruption, the unmistakable perjury, the in-your-face obstruction of our laws that we've seen play out every day. >> the fox trump tv feedback loop in action, but in this case it was because pirro had these private talks behind the scenes. it's a very explicit example of how loyal she is to trump but how some of th

jeff sessions said she made him nervous. donald trump called her nasty.gh and pompeo. >> she is really good in those moments. >> i think that can be a good thing and a bad thing for her. it is good for the general election. it can also hurt her in the primary process when she has to face people who criticize her being too harsh. >> she is in miami for last-minute debate prep. what does she need to do? >> i believe the first thing she needs to do is introduce herself. look at the great announcement she had back in february. she hasn't really been able to take off from that point. i think part of it is that people say that they are intrigued by her but don't know enough information. >> she needs to introduce herself which sometimes starting with the basics is the way to go. >>> next president trump's new defense saying the woman accusing him of sexual assault in a dressing room is not his type. plus jeanne moos on president trump and whether he read the mueller report. he has now told us two very different things. even he knows that. thanks, captain obvious

jeff sessions, worst mistake he made. if things aren't going right. >> let me start there, chuck. he mentioned jeff sessions, but he first said personnel. i thought that was notable. look at how this week evolved. he's grappling with iran but doesn't have a defense secretary in place. hasn't had a permanent defense secretary for six months. he's dealing with what's happening at the border, this decision to pull back on his threat of i.c.e. deportation and taking aim at jerome powell and dangling the possibility of demoting him to the second spot. you're starting to see him line up the excuses, but it continues to plague him as he makes these critical choices. >> what did you see there, peggy? >> all correct. i agree with everything you said but mostly what i saw was he loves this. he loves talks. he loves interviewing. he's loaded for bear. he's thought out the forays he's going to take in the future. i thought the most interesting thing he said was, i have doves and i have hawks. explaining his iran decision this week. i

chuck todd got him to admit that his biggest regret was the appointment of jeff sessions. here's what he said to hill tv today, tonight, actually, about christopher wray and this is not a ringing endorsement of the fbi director he appointed. "president trump on monday declined to say he has confidence in christopher wray and stressed he disagrees with the fbi director who has said he does not believe there was spying on the president's 2016 campaign. well, we'll see how it turns out, trump said in exclusive interview with the hill when asked about his level of confidence in wray. i mean, i disagree with him on that. i think a lot of people are disa greeing, you may disagree with him on thatthat". counselor, this is not the first time the president cast doubt on one of his hires or doubt on the director of our premier law enforcement agency. >> yeah, just starting with jeff sessions, the idea the president said that's the one mistake he made, appoint a guy who had one shred, one day when he issued something of independent judgment by stepping aside in the whole russia inqui

trying to get jeff sessions to pull back the investigation and trying to firearm robert mueller.rying to get the white house counsel to recant his testimony and change his testimony to line up with what the president had to say. those are the obstruction acts and nothing that stops congress from looking to that in the context of impeachment just like they did with bill clinton peered the same exact concept. >> shannon: i keep the 400 pages with me on my desk all the time. but we will bring it out tonight. and a lot of people have not read this. it is worth reading and worth your time if you care about the story. by the way, senator blumenthal and the democrats who said, the day after the hearing he described it as a new day for america and understand how the president of the united states committed acts of felony obstruction. >> alan: as to all the matters of obstruction even the mueller report acknowledges broad article 2 powers used by the president. even the mueller report acknowledges that a lot of these acts occurred in public where there could be no committing of a crime be

observer or the partial observer in the aftermath of the trump tower meeting and the effort of jeff sessionsself in the firing of james comey and there she is in the background or maybe not so much, and she is a key person, and other than don mcgahn, she is the person who can do the most damage on obstruction to donald trump. >> jennifer, as we talked here, and both of you seem confident they will get what they want, the house will get what they want, and you believe that the house is going to get what it wants from hope hick, but it his going to have to be from going to court? >> yes, they will have to go court, but the fact is do they push it that far, because pelosi does not want to do that, and if they push it, they will get, but at some point they have to calculate whether it is that important to them. >> and in your piece, you have a piece on cnn.com, melanie, and you say that the house judiciary chairman nadler made a mistake by allowing her to testify behind closed doors. >> it is too dimensional, and the reporter is there with the rote reporting, and people don't respond to that. we

at different stages he asked the attorney general jeff sessions to unrecuse in quotes, himself, and step in to direct the investigation away from the president's conduct. and of course the president's public statements about this investigation before and after -- before and after the results of the mueller report are at best at odds with the evidence laid out in the report itself. there can can be no question that this committee must investigate this behaviorer as well. today's hearing is the first in a series of hearings designed to unpack the work of the special counsel and related matters. we have a responsibility to do this work, to follow the facts where they lead torques make recommendations to the whole house as circumstances warrant, and to craft legislation that makes certain no president, democrat or republican, can ever act in this way again. our witnesses today include three former federal prosecutors, each of whom has considerable experience weighing the kind of evidence laid out by the special counsel in his report and in his indictments of 34 individuals, including preside

not simply mr tillerson look at the other people that he's turned on his attorney general who's jeff sessionsin fact he's made mr bolton's nasa current adviser look embarrassed regularly by contradicting him so it seems the only people he believes that he can really trust are those who have a personal relationship with him and maybe it's because his character is such that he you know he basically projects on to others his own tribal instincts to just surround himself with insiders and everybody else's subject it to be an expendable at the drop of a hat bruce fein a former us associate deputy attorney general speaking us speaking to us there from washington d.c. always good to your insights on al-jazeera thanks perhaps. well the wilds most powerful leaders are in japan for the latest g. 20 summit ahead of the main gathering us president donald trump is already had meetings with japan's and india's new render a mighty trump and mighty have been talking trade after recent disputes over the terrorists and trying to criticize japan a long time u.s. ally saying their defense treaty was one scientis

we showed jeff sessions announcing this policy. we know jeff sessions did as well.obama. t facts are there. you have to look at melania and ivanka. went to the border to check on the separations. ivanka went publicly because her brand is women and children but she's taken that off her brand, children. she said this was a low point for her, this situation with the separations. so what do you think this is? when you have children in squall, with the flu spreading rampantly around them, with the children in danger on your watch? >> lies. >> for melania and ivanka, this is not being best. this is not a good look. and history will show, you will go down as history as having done nothing about this. i hope that you can live with that. susan paige, the i.c.e. agents, the folks on the grouchbd who are trying to deal with this and are confused by the policy, confused i think morally what it is they're being asked to do and images they are seeing, talk to us about how -- this is where the institutions i worry falter a little bit. institutions need people and policies need to

they want the 302s from jeff sessions, former attorney general. reince priebus, another former white house chief of staff. plus a bunch of other trump white house officials like jared kushner and hope hicks and sean spicer and sarah sanders. they demanded notes taken from a bunch of different people inside the trump administration. they got specific dates on those notes because these specific notes are cited in the mueller report. so the committee knows that these things exist. rob porter's notes, reince priebus's notes, corey lewandowski's notes, lots of notes from annie johnson. lots of notes from a man listed as joseph hunt who familiarly goes at jodie hunt. he was cited for his contemporaneous notes when he was serving for jeff sessions. they want the memo to file that trump's white house counsel's office drafted after sally yates came up from the justice department to warn the less than one week old trump administration that the serving national security adviser they had just installed was compromised by the russian government, have you ever

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