Chris Cuomo asks the tough questions to newsmakers in Washington and around the world. Rosenstein look, Jeff Sessions he recused himself. Had to have recused himself because theres a regulation in place that says if you work on a campaign and theres a criminal investigation relating to that campaign the president says it was a bum move and he should have told him about it and it was a total hoodwink. Wrong, wrong, wrong. As far as it being a hoodwink, sessions would have had to have had the gift of prophecy along with the president in order to believe at the time he was ainterest poed, there was was going to be to an investigation thats why i was confused by your initial writings on this one because of my respect for your mind and that rosenstein the only thing he could do is get a prophylactic in play, get somebody who had one layer away from the president , which technically a Special Counsel does, because otherwise he could have been fired like that if he were running it. The questi
The fact is that we dont need a direction from the president to the intelligence chiefs to be on guard against russian interference with our elections, number one. Number two, as far as what the president says on any given day, frankly he says a lot of things. He is, i think, campaigning against impeachment rather than saying anything that is designed to affect the outcome of the case. So i kind of brush that off. But to go back to your first point, that we dont need the president for the intelligence community. Thats a little counterintuitive. We expect the leadership from the president to be of paramount importance when were dealing with threats like this, which to the democracy is basically existential. So for him to not be on the same page seems to be highly counterproductive. Its counterproductive, but it is not at all necessarily critical. These intelligence agencies, particularly in an administration where statements
get made all the time, i think are pretty much doing their job
because there s a regulation in place that says if you work on a campaign and there s a criminal investigation relating to that campaign, you can t be involved. the president puts it on sessions, says it was a bum move and he should have told him about it. it was a total hoodwink. wrong, wrong, wrong. as far as it being a hoodwink, sessions would have to have had the gift of prophecy along with the president in order to believe at the time he was appointed that there was going to be to an investigation and that he was going to be conflicted. sessions is a great guy. he s not a prophet. that s why i was confused by your initial writings on this one because of my respect for your mind and that rosenstein the only thing he could do is get a prophylactic in play, get somebody who had one layer away from the president, which technically a special counsel does, because otherwise he could have been fired like that if he were running it. the question is whether mueller was whether
rosenstein look, jeff sessions he recused himself. had to have recused himself because there s a regulation in place that says if you work on a campaign and there s a criminal investigation relating to that campaign the president says it was a bum move and he should have told him about it and it was a total hoodwink. wrong, wrong, wrong. as far as it being a hoodwink, sessions would have had to have had the gift of prophecy along with the president in order to believe at the time he was ainterest poed, there was was going to be to an investigation that s why i was confused by your initial writings on this one because of my respect for your mind and that rosenstein the only thing he could do is get a prophylactic in play, get somebody who had one layer away from the president, which technically a special counsel does, because otherwise he could have been fired like that if he were running it. the question is whether mueller was whether the mandate that was give