personally goes to the white house to the new white house counsel to tell the new white house counsel that the brand new president s brand-new national security advisor is compromised by a hostile foreign power and they needed to act in whatever way they felt was appropriate to act in response to that information. we believed that general flynn was compromised with respect to the russians. to state the obvious, you don t want your national security advisor compromised with the russians. we knew that was not a good s situati situation, which is why we wanted to let the white house know about it. it s been a persistent mystery about mike flynn and the trump administration and the president and this white house ever since sally yates gave us that information. all right. how is it, why is it that after the white house received that hair on fire warning from the justice department the attorney general coming in person to the white house to say hey, the national security advisor is compr
himself from the russia probe. jeff sessions now the former u.s. attorney general fired by donald trump applauded by his staff as he leaves the justice department the attorney general oversees the department and it s the department that s in charge of special counsel robert miller s investigation into russia s possible role in the two thousand and sixteen presidential election an election that put trump into office. thank you very much pleased u.s. intelligence agencies believe russia try to sway the election in favor of trump and special counsel miller is investigating with the trump and his aides colluded let s stay away let s stay away u.s. politicians worried that trump is trying to hold the investigation putting someone in charge who s willing to stop the russia probe protecting. and his investigation is paramount it would create a constitutional crisis if this were preload to ending or greatly limiting the
relationship was seriously strained after sessions were curious himself from the rusher probe well now democrats and even some republicans are worried about what is removal could mean for that investigation. jeff sessions now the former u.s. attorney general fired by donald trump applauded by his staff as he leaves the justice department the attorney general oversees the department and it s the department that s in charge of special counsel robert miller s investigation into russia s possible role in the two thousand and sixteen presidential election an election that put trump into office. thank you very much believes u.s. intelligence agencies believe russia try to sway the election in favor of trump and special counsel is investigating but the trump and his aides colluded. sessions replacement is matthew whitaker he s openly critical of the investigation and he may have the power to end it you re going to get it with hiring and firing attorney
beirut a transgender woman fights back against persecution but she tells us the struggle for l.c.d. t.v. rights in law but on will be along. i m brian thomas thanks so much for being with us we begin in washington with a cabinet shakeup that s created a political firestorm president trump has fired just sessions as attorney general sessions was one of the very first to endorse trump during his twenty sixteen campaign but the president has long expressed frustration with sessions after he recused himself from the probe into the alleged links between trump s presidential campaign and russia. jeff sessions now the former u.s. attorney general fired by donald trump applauded by his staff as he leaves the justice department the attorney general oversees the department and it s the