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as deputy a g rosen stein said, it is it time to do the right thing. it is past time.on of the evening from henry kissinger. corrupt pomititions make the other ten percent look bad. we're coming right back. president trump has been six months in office and the economy is thriving and country is moving. >> americans are going back to work in construction site and mines across the country. >> lou: we'll give the president a report card. and assistant attorney general tony sa eq joins me. and these are not the regular bike ride. you don't want to missing it. stay stap. we'll be back with that and much more. >> lou: it has been six months since president trump took office. and the economy is booming and markets are flying and nasdaq at an all- time high. major since inauguration day. 4 trillion in market cap. almost 900000 jobs have been created under president trump. and the unemployment rate dropped 4- 10ths down to.4 percent. that is not a bad six months. ed rolins didn't want to give him a grade. i give him a plus. there is still work to do. no down the about it. the t

sessions' recusal is in charge of the investigation, he would have to tell rosen stein to do it. rosen stein might refuse, quit, get fired, and they would have to work their way through the chain of command in the justice department, but it's not a frivolous concern on the part of mr. blumenthal. today is the day that the new fbi director nominee is going to have his confirmation hearings, and i know that several democratic senators are going to ask him about whether there will be independence in this investigation which, of course, also involves the fbi. so that's one clue to watch what's going on. >> we will have them on and we will ask them about that. >> there's a lesson for both sides. for the president and the republicans, don't call it a witch hunt. it clearly isn't. the president's own son just proved that. and on the democrats' side, don't go flying down the road of how bad the implications are. let the facts lead the way. republican operatives, some are scrambling to defend donald trump jr. others are staying quiet. the plan, listen to this, is to reportedly dig up dirt

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deputy attorney general rosen stein. the president is not happy with rosen stein. but he could do something by executive order. moving rosenstein out and bring someone else else and he could look at firing rosenstein and bring in number three person, rached brand, who is a support he of president trump and would possibly reign in mueller as they say he has kbon beyond the scope. >> that would be an incredible investigation swirling around the whole investigation. you talked about this earlier. didn't you write about it as well. what's going on here? >> last time i was on your show, two days ago, we were quaintly and innocently talking about the wall street journal editorial calling for radical transparency and even thoen it was clear we were looking at radical transparency through the rearview mirror that something had happened. i know how these cases unfold. especially as these ones that implicate international and national security issues. that firing mueller while an option is really messy, and i think actually the pardon option and presidential pardon option wa

didn't do it, you would fire rosen stein and get somebody who could. another cor use thing, imagine he wants jeff sessions gone, then the new attorney general would go through a confirmation hearing. in pushback from republicans on the hill. senator grassley tweeted there is no more room on the docket this year for any more coffin makings of attorney generals. in other words a brushback saying you can't get rid of your attorney general because we won't confirm a new one, and whoever that would be confirmed, even if sterling of character, would have to make so many assurances they wouldn't fire mueller that the president would get out of the fix by hiring a new attorney general. so the end game is opaque here and hard to sort of figure out. >> rose: and then there's brushback from the military because the president in a tweet announces what he feels about transgender in the military, and the military basically says, well, we're going to continue doing what we're doing now and let that come up through the right channels. >> that's right. and the presiden

you saw announcements, i believe it was wednesday night, about the doj, sessions and rosen stein starting to up their efforts on the leaks that have been taking place in the inner agency. i didn't look at it as some others might have as being a real strong attack on sessions. that all to say, sessions behavior, we'll see. i've heard ideas floated that sessions might actually be moved over to dhs. i think we'll have to see what plays out over the next few weeks. i looked at trump just reminding sessions, hey, there's priorities here, i'm the boss, i'd love to see these things handled and taken care of. i didn't take it as strongly as others might have. let's remember all the cabinet members serve at the pleasure of the president. >> barring the possibility of him moving to dhs, jeremy, do you think he might be the next to go? if that were to happen, would the president lose a lot of gop support? >> he absolutely would. you've already seen chuck grassley say we're nlt going to confirm an attorney general for you, president trump. our schedule is full this summer. sorry. my reporting tells m

other thing, i think that someone has to supervise mueller, sessions cannot, rosen stein said he will have to rescues himself too. right now the president is unprotected, special council is unfettered, i think it is not a good situation for president. trish: they seem to be riddled with conflicts, ed. you know, i keep making this point, you know, you can have friendships and friendships. in case of mueller and comey they are good friends. i don'i don't know why you can't find anyone who is more apolitical. >> mueller is a guy with an extraordinary reputation, but he did not have to be the special prosecutor, he has already had his days in the sun. if you get rid of sessions, you have senators that are unhappy with you. i am not saying you shouldn't, if you get rid of mueller, you will have a lot of trouble, or bite the bullet, take the hits move forward, if if continues for 6 months to a year, you will have leaks. trish: all right, well you know regroup in september. thank you to you both. >> thank you. trish: ed rollins and michael woodwin. >> should trump call for new leadership in

finds somebody truly independent, truly not a political animal who can investigate and that's not rosen stein, that's for sure, as -- that's not rosenstein, that's for sure, as well. then we can get to the bottom, see that justice is done. here's our work. let's stay and work until we get obamacare repealed and tax reform passed and signed into law. and let's encourage the president to point -- to apoint independent counsel so we can finally see justice in this case is currently all we have what one friend referred to a big fraternity party among the mullers and comeys and their buddies. in that fraternity. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas yields ack. for what purpose does the gentleman from alabama seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, i send to the desk a privileged report from the committee on rules for filing under the rule. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title. the clerk: report to accompany house resolution 431, resolution providing for consideration of the bill h.r. 2810 to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2018, for military activi

john: but if you want to, the to get rid of is not jeff whoions but rob rosen stein brought mueller on but instead he's tormenting sessions i think because, again, and he's expressing this -- i'm not mind -- he's angry at sessions because he regards sessions as the person who byught this horror upon him recusing himself. his analysis of the reculve, is, if he told me he was going to recuse himself, i wouldn't have appointed him, make any sense in the chronology of events because sessions didn't know he would untilo recuse himself after he was already in the senate confirmations hearings and he had gotten in trouble on that front on top of which he actually did make statements in his confirmation hearings that essentially if trump had been paying attention, he would have said he might be heading for recusal on the basis of what happens in the confirmation hearing. withdrawn sessions then so the combination of his history and republicans rising up as one and you can't get rid of that man. there's bipartisan from the far liberalsive end to standing up for jeff sessions. there's no -- he g

these weren't just takes on jeff sessions and rosen stein and mueller, these are attacks on the rule of law. attacks on independent justice department. and jeff sessions' response to that was to hold a press conference where he said he enjoys working for the president and looks forward to continuing. the attorney general needs to stand up for the independent rule of law for the country and tell the president he won't stand for that. if he won't, we should find a new attorney general who will. >> barbara, one of the most remarkable things in the the public statement about jeff sessions was calling on his own attorney general to investigate his former campaign adversary hillary clinton his opponent in the presidential campaign. how does it pertain to how the fbi does their job? >> this reminds me of the outcry during one of the debates that candidate trump said if he became president he would order his attorney general to investigate hillary clinton. it is completely improper. completely inappropriate. attorney general and justice department must be completely independent of the politi

i guess his idea is if he fires sessions and puts in a lap dog, the lap dog fires rosen stein and mueller and either guts or ends the investigation into how the russians interfered in the democratic process. >> why doesn't he do that? just fire sessions. use the appointment in august to do just what up. fire rosenstein. if he doesn't fire mueller, put somebody nelson there. a lap dog. and get that lap dog. if he doesn't do it, to go another one. keep doing it until he fires mueller. why doesn't he do that? >> i pride myself on the fact i can't read this man's mind and i have no idea what he'll do tomorrow and that's a little scary. >> paul butler, thank you. i don't know if there's a legal analysis. as t has he been lawyered up? get this guy to jump. don't push him. >> we know has the client who does not listen to lawyers. so he has three options with regard to sessions. he signed an executive order that says if the attorney general leaves, the position goes to the deputy attorney general, rod rosenstein who the presses is also be crazy about. his other option is the vacancy chakt allows

rosen stein knew they were going to fire him anyway.hen he called the white house and said, you better correct this matter and it upset him. as you had with your previous guest talked about comey giving the memos to a friend at columbia law school -- >> 30 seconds, do you think comey violated the law? >> i think he may well have. certainly treating those memos as his personal property rather than government records, and then taking them away, this is the same type of thing that got hillary clinton in trouble on her e-mails. those were government archive records. there are rules about how you dispose of government records. whether there was classified information in them or not is more questionable. if there was, then he clearly violated that law as well. >> thank you del wilbur, thank you john eastman. ladies and gentlemen, i'll be right back. where are we? about to see progressive's new home quote explorer. where you can compare multiple quote options online and choose what's right for you. woah. flo and jamie here to see hqx. flo and

rosenstein to follow mueller, and it seems like he probably can't, then he could fire -- heco order rod rosen stein to fire him, and then if rod rosenstein says no, he could fire rod rosenstein, and then he would get into the cycle where he had to keep firing every other ranking person at the justice department from the top down until he found someone at some rank who would fire bob mueller. that is a hard path. that is potentially a long path. what became clear this week is that there is an easier and at least a shorter path for the president. quicker way to do it would be for him to just put someone new instead of rod rosenstein in charge of overseeing the mueller investigation. he may love jeff sessions, but if he fires or quits, trump could appoint a new a.g. who would not be recused from the russia investigation, who would not be recused from overseeing mueller, and then that new attorney general would be appointed to replace jeff sessions could fire bob mueller. that coming into focus with jeff sessions turning -- everybody expecting jeff sessions to resign, that put this bombshell off on the

. >> interesting, if jeff sessions were to resign, rod rosen stein the deputy attorney general would be acting attorney general until the new candidate could be confirmed. jeff zeleny, thanks very much. >>> let's get to the other breaking news we are following on health care and the president's 11th hour bid to get his republican party in line. with a crucial procedural vote just hours away, mr. trump is urging senate republicans to, quote, do the right thing. let's go to you aour congressio correspondent phil mattingly. what are you hearing? >> reporter: there will be a vote tomorrow, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell making that very clear. what we don't know is the final product senators will be entering to debate on tomorrow and perhaps more importantly whether they have the votes at all and that is exactly why you saw the president today give his best effort to turn the screws on wary senators. >> there is still time to do the right thing. >> reporter: tonight president trump amping up the pressure on republican senators in a last-ditch effort to save the obamacare repeal e

it would revert back to the sitting attorney general instead of rosen stein?that's right, but first of all, if you fire sessions, does rosenstein stay? and then you have a question as to who would be willing to carry out what the president wants. i mean, you have these watergate parallels that come up, and you remember the saturday night massacre. you had the attorney general, the deputy attorney general resign, refuse to carry out the firing of archibald cox. who could that character be in that scenario? beyond that, you have -- would the senate, in light of not just being upset with this decision but also with their loyalty to a former fellow senator jeff session, how quickly do they go through the process of approving a presidential appointment to replace a jeff sessions? >> anderson, to that point, if you were trying to replace jeff sessions as a political matter, with someone who was as popular with the nationalist conservative base that trump has cultivated, i don't think you could get that person confirmed right now. at the end of the day, you have sess

deputy attorney general rod rosen stein, here he is commenting on the subject last month. >> do you knowler as of this date? >> no, i do not. >> and that would be your decision if that ever happened, right? >> that's correct. >> and you're going to make it, nobody else? >> as long as i'm in this position, senator, it will be my responsibility to make that decision. >> in light of this report that did come out yesterday that folks at the white house, maybe the president, were looking at ways to fire the special counsel mueller and, as you already testified today, given the current situation, you are the only person today in a position to actually do that firing, isn't that correct? >> that is correct. >>. >> well, secretary of state rex tillerson is working to shoot down rumors that he is looking to make his exit from the trump administration. a pair of reports earlier this week suggested that tillerson could resign from this position by the holidays or even sooner over reported frustrations with president trump, including his comments on attorney general jeff sessions on tuesday. a state

we should point out the president is expressing lack of confidence in rod rosen stein saying that he's from baltimore and didn't know that when he was appointed, there are very few republicans in baltimore and there are all kinds of conflict of interest regarding the special counsel investigation. rod rosenstein recommended that the president fire james comey then appointed a special prosecutor to look into the firing. robert mueller has conflicts of interest, because of hig long-term friendship ship with james comey. not sure what direction this is going and what the president hopes to achieve saying the things he's said. he has thrown into doubt the confidence that this white house must have in the department of justice, at the same time the attorney general saying we're going to do everything we can to uphold the laws of the united states and enforce them appropriately. >> shepard: john roberts on a crazy day at the white house. josh geernstein, what do you make of this? >> the concern regarding attorney general sessions, i think, at this point is that you could end up with sort of

sufficient evidence to warrant a special counsel, as i advocated, at the very beginning of rod rosen stein's appointment, and ultimately he agreed to do. so i view this investigation with the utmost seriousness, because it does involve obstruction of justice and perjury and potential defrauding the government of its lawful services. conspiracy to violate the computer fraud and abuse act and other violations of law. and you and i have talked about the need for the fbi to be as independent and immune from political interference as possible, because i foresee a firestorm brewing that will threaten the fbi. and i'm going to support you, because i do believe that you will provide the kind of independence and integrity that the fbi needs, based on your record and your experience and expertise. and i am trusting, as i think members of this body will trust you, to take that most solemn and historically significant obligation as seriously as you do the crimes of perjury and obstruction of justice. those kinds of crimes betray the rule of law, because they impede vigorous and independent investigation

you want to fire bob mueller you don't need to get rid of jeff sessions in that, the man is rod rosen stein, the deputy attorney general who brought mueller on. if he wanted to fire rosenstein he could go and do thatment instead he is tormenting sessions largely because again, he is expressing this, this is not me reading his mind. he is angry at sessions because he regards sessions as the person who brought this horror upon him, by recusing himself. his amal sis of the recusal which which is if he told me he was going to he are queues himself, i wouldn't have appointed him, doesn't make any sense in the chronology of events because sessions didn't know he would have to recuse himself until after he was already in the senate confirmation hearing and had gotten in trouble on that front. on top of that, did he make statements in his confirmation hearing that essentially if trump had been paying attention, we have said you know what, it seems like he might be heading for recusal on the basis of this confirmation hearing, he could have withdrawn sessions then. the combination of his misreading

rosen stein appointed mr. lot of respect on both sides of the aisle to look at all things russia and i hope he will look at fusion gps. i'll ask him to do that and look at the ukraine's potential collusion with the democratic party, the new f.b.i. director will do that. at the end of the day mr. mueller cannot be fired by the president. he cannot be dismissed by any attorney general unless there is cause. and what i want to make sure is that a court would look at the dismissal as a check and balance against abuse of power by anybody. >> shannon: i want to ask you, knowing jeff sessions as you do, do you think he would resign or do you think the president if he wants to is going to have to step up and fire him? >> i think the president will have to fire him. i would suggest quit humiliating jeff. he deserves better. one of the most decent people i've met. a good patriot and good conservative and trying to serve the president well. at the end of the day if you believe jeff sessions is not the right guy, fire him

trump rosen stein as well. those are latest tweets and headlines from the president this morning in regards to jeff sessions and everything that is going on with this investigation. holly. >> thanks, wisdom. meanwhile around two question today for president senior advisor and sun in law jared curbmer. he'll meet on capitol hill to meet with the house intelligence he did not colude to interfere with last year's presidential election. >> 2017 national scout jamboree, 40,000 scouts and leaders and volunteers at attending 10 day event and the president took a swipe how washington works as he addressed gathering of youngsters. >> i go to wash on ton and see all these politicians and i see the swamp m and it's got a good space. we ought to c word shop or ces pool or se sewer. it's not good. it's not good. >> he became theth preez to attend the boy scout event. >> this is the day we've been waiting for right? >> yeah, it's did are pardon me finally arrived. it will be absolutely beautiful today. lower humidity and sto

recused but to make that case they have got to go to robert mueller deputy attorney general rod rosen stein looking into the financing of this. we know that the trump administration, president trump has not released his tax returns. it's almost like telling a child we have a locked door upstairs in the house, kids. don't go look there. what are the kids going to could? they are going to try to find the keys and go look there if there is something, that's what they're worried about. fbi are looking at apartments and trump buildings. trump's involvement in the controversial soho development in new york with russian orbiters. steve: you are making the point though, clayton. it started out did russia influence our election? did they collude with the trump team to get president trump elected president? and if you go back 20 years to look at his real estate developments and i'm sure they are going to now, does that really have anything to do with what happened last november? ainsley: yesterday, you all were probably glued to your tv, if you weren't, when o.j. simpson went before the parole board

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