Tim obrien, always a pleasure. Thank you very much. Lets continue on. Top of the hour. Im brooke baldwin. Breaking news today. Jeff sessions will testify in public tomorrow in front of the Senate Intelligence committee. As a multiple investigations into ties and russia and Trump Associates are moving forward. This comes after of e questions swirl after the sworn testimony from james comey that the president made the attorney general leave the room before he suggested comey let go of the investigation into former National Security adviser michael flynn. Comey saying he went to intervene, wanted sessions to intervene, but sessions did not. The white house responded moments ago to whether or not Jeff Sessions may invoke executive privilege tomorrow. Do you believe he should invoke executive privilege. It depends on the scope of the questions. To get to a hypothetical at this point would be prema sure. In any way did Jeff Sessions or folks at the doj ask for the white houses permission for
Doesnt bother me one bit. That was just a short time ago here on msnbc. Kristen welker is live at the white house. Out of the gates, lets do it. Today the president meets with the south korean counterpart. Tax reform is still on deck. Theres so much else we could be talking about right now, but, instead, the focus remains on the president s comments yesterday. What is the white house saying . Right, peter, this is another example of the president stepping on his own agenda and the white house is digging in, pushing back vigorously. Let me read you what President Trump tweeted just a short time ago and then tell you what some of his top aides are saying. This is from President Trump who said watched lowrated morning joe for first time in long time. Fake news. He called me to stop a National Enquirer article. I said, no. Bad show. Top officials are digging in, defending him in the wake of those controversial tweets yesterday saying this is a president whos going to fight fire with fire.
Can we fire the prosecutor. What happens if we do file the prf. Thats the thing theyve got to be worried about. Now after 24 hours the question of firing the special prosecutor maybe has been settled by sarah. She said on air force one while the president has the right to, he has no intention to do so, problem is, the president doesnt have the right to, so im not sure where we are on this. You were right about this, on twitter within the last 24 hours people need to stop saying they cant imagine that trump would. At this point, if you can not imagine something this president would do, you have in a coma since he was sworn in. Most of that is a left over verbal tick when we had president s where you could imagine what they would not do. And we get people saying if that happens, were in way worse shape than i thought. If that happens, yeah, all those things keep happening. We need to have more descriptive terms for what happened when we get beyond what is previously imaginable. Thats the
In its current form. Now everyone has been above board that this is a draft, there are changes could be made. At least conservatives, you see all five of them there. First four folks on the screen from the conservative side of the ledger. Theyve said almost to a person that all they want to do is talk about it, make adjustments, and they can still potentially vote for this bill. The fifth one, dean heller, a senator from nevada, he has the toughest reelection of any republican coming up next year and he had some very difficult words for this bill. He says this does not accomplish what it set out to accomplish, it will not lower premiums, and he said in this form this bill is not the answer. Of course we know that a super pack has been affiliated with the president has gone up on the air in nevada with an ad attacking heller. That of course is going to be opposite of how Republican Leaders prefer allies of the white house conduct themselves here as they try to wrangle votes. They actual
You were right about this, on twitter within the last 24 hours people need to stop saying they cant imagine that trump would. At this point, if you can not imagine something this president would do, you have in a coma since he was sworn in. Most of that is a left over verbal tick when we had president s where you could imagine what they would not do. And we get people saying if that happens, were in way worse shape than i thought. If that happens, yeah, all those things keep happening. We need to have more descriptive terms for what happened when we get beyond what is previously imaginable. Thats the world that were in now. Here is one, before you go. Here is one the comment ators. They seem to have grown out of that particular observation. It will come back, dont worry. Dont worry. Thank you, rachel. As rachel said, the senator will join us tonight. Well get reaction exclusively here on the last word to what Jeff Sessions said about the senator in that Senate Intelligence Committee He