Well dig into that. An isolated President Trump is lashing out at his own attorney general again calling his work disgraceful. Was Jeff Sessions who publicly defended himself yesterday suddenly trolling the president when he dined out with Rod Rosenstein last night . And the reports of a death match between chief of staff john kelly and gentlem. The internal chaos and the sense that things are unraveling. Communications director hope hicks is resigning. Shes the fourth Trump White House Communications Director to do so. What im worry about right now in the white house is the resolving door. Its spinning like a top. If you want to work in the trump administration, know your blood type because youll be thrown under the bus. Lets talk about mr. Mcgoo because this is reportedly President Trumps behind the scenes nickname for attorney general Jeff Sessions. Its disgraceful. Are you concerned about that . Not at all because sessions is a strong individual and is going to do what an attorney
Department and killeen blackwell former ohio secretary of state and adviser to the trump transition team. Michael let me start with you. Is the president publicly instructing the attorney general how to redirect doj investigative resources, specifically away from trumps inner circle on to people he sees at political adverses . Is that your interpretation. It can be read that way. The president has the prerogative to the set the priorities for the Justice Department. He is entitled in some respect to set those priorities. But, really this seems more directed at sessions failure to control mueller. And thats something the president has no control over short of firing mueller. And sessions is recused from. So these are really rants against sessions, almost, you know, inexplicably because the president can fire sessions if he wants to. Theoretically he can fire mueller. He has it within his power to do so. In some sense put up or shut up. Either move the way you want to move or stop, you k
Carolinas where rivers are still on the rise. Is the worst still ahead . And putins poison plan . Members of a russian activist group say one of their members has been poisoned. Did the russian president order an attack on one of his leading critics . Im wolf blitzer, youre in the situation room. There are new doubts this hour about president Trumps Supreme Court nomination of judge Brett Kavanaugh now that a california professor has come forward saying that kavanaugh sexually assaulted her at a High School Party more than three decades ago. Kavanaugh denies the accusations, and both are willing to testify under oath to congress. Well talk about that and more this hour with senator Patrick Leahy. Hes a senior democrat on the Judiciary Committee. Our correspondents, specialists, and analysts,a also standing by. First to our chief white house correspondent, jim acosta. The president is said to be privately angry about all of this, but his remarks just a little while ago were relatively s
Compelling testimony in todays impeachment hearing and the criminal conviction of his long time associate roger stone who was found guilty on all seven counts today. Accusations of witness intimidation were a major headline in todays impeachment hearing after the president decided to attack the witness, his former ambassador to ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch, while she was testifying about his conduct. Now, the president real time is attacking you. What effect do you think that has on other witnesses willingness to come forward and expose wrongdoing . Well, its very intimidating. Designed to intimidate, is it not . I i mean, i cant speak to what the president is trying to do. But i think the effect is to be intimidating. Well, i want to let you know, ambassador, that some of us here take witness intimidation very, very seriously. When asked by reporters about attacking yovanovitch, the president reacting reacted basically as he typically does by claiming that the other side is the one inti
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