the president trying to obstruct the investigation. would the president be trying to obstruct it by getting rid of sessions. that would certainly play into that narrative. this is something that mueller has looked at. he s begun to look at this issue. and it is the reason why mueller exists. you know, if comey had not been fired and had not come out, that the president had asked comey to end the flynn investigation, we wouldn t be in this situation. the president wouldn t be as upset as he is with sessions. the president is really, really disappointed by this and doesn t understand why sessions did this. i think the president finally understands the impact that mueller could have on him. mueller has an enormous amount of power. he s going to look at everything in trump world. i think there s real deep concerns at the white house about that. to mr. peters, i used to know just two things about recess appointments and fact check me here to see if they re still true. number one, it s goo
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fourth who clearly is in legal jeopardy for a number of potential crimes. is it already flynn? is he already cooperating with the government? i don t know who it is but someone probably is, and that may be why he s so worried and so anxious to shut this investigation down. and i would have never thought i would have supported attorney general sessions. he does not stand for anything i believe in except in this case, is he doing the right thing. and i hope he will have the courage to withstand the twitter attacks and to stay in his job. jeremy bash, mike pence went on fox tonight and i heard him repeat the president s recusal criticism of sessions. and it is an apparent people may not know how this works. the prior to taking a job and prior to the official announcement of a probe, an investigation, you can t know in advance that the conditions are going to meet the standard for recusal. but the attorney general as he
several lawyers around trump have been urging the president to stop his saber rattling against sessions and mueller, adding that his comments send a signal to mueller that the president s trying to shut down or curtail the investigation as if he does have something to hide. well, with us tonight to talk about all this, jill winebanks back with us, one of the special prosecutors during the watergate scandal, former general counsel to the u.s. army, michael crowley, senior foreign affairs correspondent for politico and jeremy bash former chief of staff at cia, dod and former house counsel for house intel. jill, what do you make of the legal advice the president is getting in. that is good advice. i don t expect that he s going
obstruction of justice aspect. you cannot have a witness lead and oversee an investigation. this is kind of recusal 101. i think the sessions decision to recuse himself was sort of a no-brainer. it was clearly the law and policy. and he was left with no choice, and i just want to point out in addition to the president s threats as trying to undermine mueller s investigation, he s also witness tampering. he s actually bullying a witness. he s bull ying jeff sessions and part of the reason may be that the president is trying to send a signal to jeff sessions if you step out of line in testifying against me in either of these twos pillars i am going to take you out. mr. crowley, while we ve all been talking about this, in your beat, there has been great progress along the topic of russia sanctions. kind of quietly moving through congress and now the administration is faced with a very interesting decision. bring us up to speed on
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