appointed ag and on top of that for him to deliver a resignation letter right then and there and for the people to refuse it when he said i shouldn t have hired you in the first place. reporter: it goes to show the power of the republican senators up on capitol hill to a center extent because they used to be they were colleagues of jeff sessions for a long time and support him and respect him and admire him. and were calling to keep jeff sessions in that position and really push him along because that is. it s unusual. from what i understood it is unusual. quite a few senators including some democrats really took issue with the way the president was treating his cabinet official. the attorney general position is unique it enforces the law of the country and so to a certain extent it s different than the other cabinet positions. again when you re messing with somebody who is a long time colleague of the folks in the senate, just probably not the
blowing a winnable opportunity to wrestle back control of the u.s. senate. while it s still unlikely the democrats take back the house, the more they settle for chaos, the more they risk their majority in that chamber as well. the gop is making a masochistic effort to lose power and is flirting with just that possibility. that expert is charlie cook along with john feehery. is there a win direction right now, charlie, that will effect elections coming out of this fight over the debt ceiling and, of course, the shutdown? chris, you know, these kinds of things nobody wins. everybody loses to a center extent. one side always loses more than another. republicans are suffering from an enormous amount of self-inflicted damage. they re hurting their brand. and this is damage that can go for a long time. you know, and i would look at it just so much as the 2014
their chances every day of blowing a winnable opportunity to wrestle back control of the u.s. senate. while it s still unlikely the democrats take back the house, the more they settle for chaos, the more they risk their majority in that chamber as well. the gop is making a masochistic effort to lose power and is flirting with just that possibility. that expert is charlie cook along with john feehery. is there a win direction right now, charlie, that will effect elections coming out of this fight over the debt ceiling and, of course, the shutdown? chris, you know, these kinds of things nobody wins. everybody loses to a center extent. one side always loses more than another. republicans are suffering from an enormous amount of self-inflicted damage. they re hurting their brand. and this is damage that can go for a long time.