persecuting political rivals. two prominent gop senators said if he wants to get rid of the a.g., we will help him get rid of a new one, let's wait until after the midterms. that's nothing you would ever hear john mccain say. >> how do you react to that? the pressure mounting on jeff sessions, those three tweets, the interview on fox news, the tweets we saw yesterday as well. >> well, it's further example of how much the republican party has been completely subsumed into trumpism and the whims and the grievances of the current sitting president of the united states. i mean, when it comes to president's flirtations with firing robert mueller, ordering the sacking of jeff sessions, rod rosenstein, the list goes on. the republican party and its figure heads on capitol hill have been going for the past year or so to varying degrees of, oh, we'll make sure he won't do that, we will be a check on