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trump and jeff sessions, the attorney s chief of staff, matt whitaker, would attend white house meetings in his place. but sessions apparently did not know that whitaker at the same time was angling for a promotion. here s cnn s evan perez. matt whitaker s rise has been in the works for months. his boss, former attorney general jeff sessions, only came to realize this recently. cnn has learned new details of some of the behind the scenes drama that took place after white house chief of staff john kelly called sessions to ask for his resignation. top justice department officials including deputy attorney general rod rosenstein huddled with sessions to try to find a way to delay the resignation. rosenstein was the highest ranking official overseeing special counsel robert mueller s investigation. that is, until whitaker took over as acting attorney general on wednesday.
everything, you re taking away their constitutional expression of free speech. bret: we hear what the president says. but behind the scenes what is the president thinking? is there a thinking about a policy push? one advised me that this is theoretically a nixon-to-china opportunity. the nra supports him, he could actually go there. but i don t think trump wants to go to china. this is an issue where he actually instinctively understands. he said it in speeches, he says, common court bad, second amendment good. he s seen it on the campaign trail, he understands it. and there was nobody who supported him more strongly during the campaign than the nra. i don t see trump acting against the nra s interests on this issue. bret: here s the president on making schools safer. later this month, i will be meeting with the nation s
of us on the committee. we have further steps to take and we ll be taking those. reporter: fox news confirms late last night, don mcgann explained why executive privilege covers the transition. that was not enough for the committee s ranking democrat who claims bannon s in contempt and his privilege claim is overly broad and unsustainable. we cannot permit a situation where the white house is allowed to script self-serving and misleading questions. reporter: the democrats memo about the abuses and when it will be public, the congressman had no comment as he walked away from reporters, bret. bret: katherine, what are we learning from the new interview from the former white house chief of staff? reporter: in the wide-ranging interview, reince priebus said they re afraid of no one, and the behind the scenes drama, quote, take everything you ve heard and multiply it by 50.
election year. transportation secretary, elaine ciao, explained the idea as not ideal. the president has not declared anything out of bounds. so everything is on the table. the gas tax has adverse impact, a very regressive impact on the most vulnerable within our society. those who depend on jobs, who are hourly workers. reporter: a white house official noted that president trump has said everything is on the table to achieve infrastructure improvements. the president wants to lead a thoughtful discussion on how to solve the nation s infrastructure problems. popular or unpopular, looking at the numbers, a gas tax would pay for the trump administration s infrastructure plan. they calculate hiking taxes by 25 cents a gallon would raise close to $400 billion over the next ten years.