The latest news from around the world with host Brooke Baldwin. Against Michael Cohen. But give us your testimony and well sort out who needs to get charged. It can depend. It may not be with regard to state crimes. I know there was some talk today that the state the District Attorney locally looking in to trumps issues as well. It is just not general immunity for all things everywhere, but specifically as it relates to this. And this is the u. S. Attorney who granted immunity to weisselberg in the cohen case, but as you point out, we learned the manhattan d. A. Is also considering pursuing criminal case involving the Trump Organization and two of its executives. Do you think that those two jurisdictions are talking to each other . I would guess they are. One of the hall marks of effective Law Enforcement and prosecution is cooperating with other offices. If you look back at the cohen case, it seems to be the case that that sprung out of the states investigation of this guy friedman. S
more confidence in, i will support that choice with the understanding, ethey have to be highly qualified, confirmable, and we ll make sure that mueller is not impeded. you know, i m going to play a clip. this is what you said a little bit more than a year ago about firing jeff sessions and what you said more recently and then i ll give you a chance to elaborate. right. if jeff sessions is fired, there will be holy hell to pay. clearly, attorney general sessions doesn t have the confidence of the president. after the election, i think there will be some serious discussions about a new attorney general. all right. go ahead and yeah, so, he was thinking about firing sessions because he recused himself. he had no choice. i told you, mr. president, this man you re not a lawyer, i am there s no way jeff sessions could oversee the investigation but he s still always complaining about the fact that jeff sessions recused himself. he thinks that s the biggest mistake. he can
clearly attorney general sessions doesn t have 2 confidence of the president and all i can say is that i have a lot of respect for the attorney general but that s an important office in the country and after the election i think there will be some serious discussions about a new attorney general. joining me now is washington post columnist e.j. dionne, washington post opinion writer jennifer rubin and former u.s. attorney joyce vance. i want to play one more sound clip of lindsey graham from july of 2017 and quite a different take that lindsey graham had on the possibility of donald trump firing jeff sessions back then. take a listen. this effort to basically marginalize and humiliate the attorney general is not going over well in the senate. if jeff sessions is fired there will be holy hell to pay. e.j., what happened?
then fire robert mueller. and if that happens, a lot of republicans in the congress are warning against it. we will have another constitutional confrontation. now, you know, i m not predicting it, but i worry about it. you can see it coming. one person who does seem open to new leadership at the ledeadt the attorney general level lindsey graham suggesting there could be a changing of the guard. a year ago he had a very different take. listen to that, his thoughts then, to what he said the other day, this sound bite back to back. if jeff sessions is fired, there will be holy hell to pay. any effort to go after mueller could be the beginning of the end at the trump presidency unless mueller did something wrong. clearly attorney general sessions doesn t have the confidence of the president,
change of the guard after the mid-term. i want you to listen to lindsey graham a day or so ago compared to what he said a year ago. let s listen. if jeff sessions is fired, there will be holy hell to pay. any effort to go after mueller could be the beginning of the ends of the presidency unless mueller did something wrong. clearly, attorney general sessions doesn t have the presence, that s an important office in the country and after the election i think there will be some serious discussions about a new attorney general. what a difference a year makes inerjeet, what do you make of this apparent softening of lindsey graham and others? i have to say when i first came across that, i find i found it confusing. i still do. it does seem to me jeff sessions