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ward supporters telling jeff sessions to hang on but increasingly they re making it clear, senators graham and grassley that on criminal justice reform and the immigration family separation issue, a whisper campaign that that was jeff sessions s fault and it was not the tacit approval of president trump which from reporting it seems like there was so they are building a case to dump him. what s remarkable 1 that they would led democratic voters know that eight weeks before the midterms. it looks like an energizing campaign message for democrats. and gasly is saying i can open up the calendar, we have space to deal with confirmation hearings. there is also a question about whether the distraction is perhaps part of what we re seeing from some of these republicans, fatigue with the distraction that is the jeff sessions situation and trying to get things done and all of the space that it seems to be occupying and oxygen it seems to be sucking out of the room for
ground. according to authorities, an uber driver was justified to shoot and kill a man who stormed his car and threatened him. in the dash cam video, you can see the man, jason bowic cutting off the uber with his truck. boek thought his girlfriend was a passenger in the uber. the two just got into a heating text exchange. diane gallagher joins with us more details. the sheriff calling this justifiable homicide all day long. stand your ground laws are controversial when it comes to killings across this nation, particularly when we re talking about florida s version but this is what we know about this case, after a fight with his on again/off again girlfriend jason boek followed an uber he thought was driving her home. texts show he threatened the girlfriend and the uber driver and that dash cam video from the uber shows he served in front of the car, appeared to try to run it off a dark stretch of road.
we ll show you the video and i want to warn, you re going to hear a gunshot. i say something? you have a pistol? oh, god! oh, my god! the uber driver, robert westlake, a licensed armed security guard who hole holds a concealed carry permit. he called 911 and rendered aid to boek who died. the girlfriend was not even in that uber. this was a case of him following the wrong vehicle in the first place, westlake told police came towards me, shouted he s got a pistol and reached for his waistband. that s why the sheriff says it makes it a classic stand your ground case and doesn t plan to charge him. wow. don t mess with an uber driver.
all of this as the president is tweeting that white house us counsel don mcgahn is leaving this fall, a tweet that apparently surprised even mcgahn himself and despite news of another exit, president trump s executive time is in full swing, the president insisting the white house is a smooth-running machine, no kay yot to see here. he s excited about the person taking mcgahn s place and, oh, in case you were wondering, daughter ivanka, son-in-law jared kushner, the president tweets they had nothing to do with the counsel s departure. there s a lot to discuss thursday morning achlt thee that jones is at the white house. athena, the president hinting he knows who will replace mcgahn. erica, that s right. the president tweeting he s excited about the person but not naming them. he said i m very excited about the person who will be taking the place of white house counsel don mcgahn. i liked don but he was not responsible for me not firing