good a job he did, how much he pulled himself together, got the country going. and here you have yet another kind of unforced error by this administration that has turned the whole conversation back. that wasn t a coincidence. there is some leaking going on, obviously, richard haass, by friends of obama on this obama story, maybe on the sessions story. i don t know how long they had been working on it but i don t think it s a coincidence that this came the day after donald trump got his best press coverage everybody. people go, no. no, that is how washington works. you hold something and then bam, you leak it. what is different about this, this is not the first or last day of this story. this is a story that has legs. it s been here now off and on for a year, year and a half. this is not going to be the last day this story is going to interrupt whatever the news flow is. what this does, willie, is it just puts the thousandth
agree with you on 90% of the issues? joe, i m not talking about throwing anybody away. if you let me get my statement out, i ll be happy to tell you what i m talking about. there is no left/right divide among young people. the younger generation, which is now the largest generation in this country, voted 58% for hillary. they didn t turn out. they don t turn out for down ballot issues or off-year elections. the key is not to move to the right or to the left. the key is to energize these voters if you want to win if you re a become because they believe in social justice and more conservative economically than the democratic party. if there is a candidate in kentucky and i have a specific story when i was campaigning for republican in kentucky, and i went to him and said how are they on guns? the nra kind of likes him, the democrat. how are they on abortion? really federal funding. no, they are actually they are pro life. i looked at the guy and i said, you re screwed because they ar
a left wing publication that only attacks republicans and this is what upsets me. oh, wait. the two year anniversary of him breaking the clinton e-mail story. can you believe that? you will continue to fail, okay? you would be doing what tim russert always said. make people on both sides think you re the enemy. without fear or favor, we follow the facts. well, we are fearful and willie and i will basically sell our souls for a job at goldman sachs but that offer hasn t come yet. we thank you for holding it up for us. m thank you, michael. great reporting, as always. isn t that incredible? he breaks the clinton server story and he has been all over this too. i mean, on both sides. it s pretty incredible. mark s question is the critical one. in fact, who irm the associates? were they members of the actual trump campaign or were they golfing buddies, business partners? because there was people from
sessions career as attorney general. that certainly let s not get ahead of the story. that is certainly what a lot of people on the democratic side are saying. at the very least, he s got to recuse himself. at the very least. at the very least, you re going you ve got to believe there has to be a special prosecutor now that this story goes all the way up to the a.g. i got to say for sessions, himself, if i m donald trump, i say, you know, if you misled the committee, i can t let you get in the way of what is going on in this administration because, mika, how is this any different than what general flynn did? it s flynn-like. it is so flynn-like. in a way it s worse than what flynn did. flynn lied to the vice president. this guy lied in front of a confirmation ted cruz is joining us later for an exclusive interview and about the same time this the washington post piece crossed last night, the new york times put up a piece entitled obama
a lie and you could do that with a straight face. but mark halpern, again, what is going to cause jeff sessions much more a problem is when he volunteered the fact. hey, i was considered to be a surrogate for the campaign and i never spoke to any russian government official. that will be the biggest problem. i wonder if he thinks his overnight tweet will solve this. i hope he doesn t. he has to speak out and explain this in great detail. it s uncomfortable because he is a former senator and they are inclined to give him deference. he has a lot of explaining to do. i actually think as big a deal this is the new york times story may be a bigger deal. that the obama administration was spreading intel around? that is a huge deal but two things about the story that relate to the sessions story that make it a huge deal. one, there continues to be a war of current executive intelligence officials and fbi officials going after the trump