Sessions big news this week after the reports he did in fact have the meetings with the Russian Ambassador and did decided to recuse himself from any potential federal investigation. I know that your group and others have called for more action beyond that. They want him to resign. What is the difference here . Is recusal and federal investigation enough . Are there still those callings for resignation . He is only recusing himself for a limited purpose. That is looking into being a part of the investigation into the 2016 campaign before the election. He has not recused himself from after the election. But it certainly brings into sharper focus his role as attorney general for us. We have known the Jeff Sessions for an awfully long time, going back to 1986 when we were very troubled when he was nominated for a judgeship to a District Court in alabama. And there were very serious claims about his involvement in civil rights cases, making racist statements. We know Jeff Sessions really w
Sessions big news this week after the reports he did in fact have the meetings with the Russian Ambassador and did decided to recuse himself from any potential federal investigation. I know that your group and others have called for more action beyond that. They want him to resign. What is the difference here . Is recusal and federal investigation enough . Are there still those callings for resignation . He is only recusing himself for a limited purpose. That is looking into being a part of the investigation into the 2016 campaign before the election. He has not recused himself from after the election. But it certainly brings into sharper focus his role as attorney general for us. We have known the Jeff Sessions for an awfully long time, going back to 1986 when we were very troubled when he was nominated for a judgeship to a District Court in alabama. And there were very serious claims about his involvement in civil rights cases, making racist statements. We know Jeff Sessions really w
Been involved in Court Selection process. Thanks for being our guests this week. Let me introduce lisa, congressional reporter from the Los Angeles Times, and the u. S. A. Today Supreme Court correspondent, richard. Lisa, you were up first. I think well open with attorney general Jeff Sessions big news this week, after the reports that he did in fact have some meetings with the Russian Ambassador and then of course decided to recuse himself from any potential federal investigation. I know that your group and others have called for more action beyond that. They want him to resign. Whats the difference here . Is recusal from any federal investigation enough or are there still those calling for resignation . So hes only recusing himself for a very limited purpose. And that is looking into being part of that investigation, into the 2016 campaign, before the election. Hes not recused himself for after the election. But it certainly brings into sharper focus his role as attorney general for
Im devoting next two hours to this. Im asking people to email me. What do you think stuart is doing on the farm . Im already getting responses. Thank you very much, great show as always, my friend. Were on top of this new vetting order, whatever you call it. Stuart touched on it, more issues preoccupy administration, congress, to say nothing who knew what and when tapping phones and all of that. Neil it is distraction for markets who fear it will lead to delay, if not outright denial of something they have been waiting forever since the election of donald trump back last november. That is those tax cuts, those cuts in regulations. Prominent ceo telling me only yesterday, he is convinced that the more this drags on, the less any of this stuff looks likely. Is he right . Well explore that. Guess calling it a vetting order, minus one country. What is the latest on this. They are, neil. Reporter take a step back. Consumed. White house staff having to talk about this throughout the morning.
Furthermore pointing to mark mu eaddow, leader of Freedom Caucus, 30plus House Republicans strong leading leadership effort to revamp the Health Care Law, he pointed out, honestly, a loss is not acceptable, folks. He pointed out to meadows and said reportedly i believe mark and his group will come along. I dont know if that is Donald Trumps version of tony soprano. The message is undeniable. Get on the stick here. We can sort out the details later f we lose on this, we can kiss our heinies goodbye. That is my quick take that is the prevailing view dominating the bond market. 10year note, good reflection how the bond market fools, it seems to be saying runup in yields and tumbling in prices that might have been overdone. That was seemingly presaging a pickup in economic activity. What if that is not a given . The bond market taking all that back. Enjoying a flight to quality here, on belief, order of events and Promising Development of events wont go the president s way, wont go republi