interview with the new york times. and what was said about his attorney general. is this an opportunity to start anew? when that s not probably going to go anywhere especially now we have the washington post report there could be new information from the conversations that attorney general jeff sessions had during the campaign. yeah, there s going to be a lot of scrutiny on that, you know, the democrats have already been calling for sessions to come back to the senate and testify. that would be the third time, if he did, that he would have to answer questions on his contacts with the russians, which he initially didn t disclose. he said it was only in his capacity as an alabama senator. i think there s going to be continued pressure on him going forward and the fact that, you know, trump, it would be very difficult, of course, for him and that s what republicans are going to be saying for him to have a different attorney general to go through senate confirmation, so, when he s in a
michael, is this putting members of his own party in and the people who are charged, for example, in the senate intelligence committee, the senate judiciary committee with their own rules and looking into the relationship of russia and their impact on the 2016 election? well, i think for the people investigating this story when president trump makes comments like this, it probably only energizes them. the fact he had this second conversation with vladmir putin at the white house didn t disclose which is mistier i don t say. for investigators, i think it s more fuel for the fire. for members of congress and allies of the president, it s exhausting and must be driving them a little bit crazy. republicans control the house and senate. they feel that they should be ramming through a big agenda, getting stuff done that they wanted to do for eight years when barack obama was in the white house and have the president signing republican legislation.
palmer, and chris cillizza. you say what trump is doing with this second meeting is a bait and switch. how is it it s been more than ten days and in this age of all information all the time we did not know that he had this possibly hour-long meeting with vladimir putin. one, because the white house didn t disclose it. second, because alisyn, as you know, all information all the time means you miss some things. it s just hard to see everything that is out there. but i do think what you re seeing here is classic donald trump misdirection. taking a story which is the white house donald trump met with the russian president with no other or huddled with or had a sidebar with choose your word at the g20 summit with no u.s. translate every or other u.s. official present.
robert kennedy amendment came as a result of him being made the ag. so you can t have any family members in any of the departments, but we should have also included the white house, not thinking that anyone would put their family member in a position of authority within the white house. now, all members of congress too are under the same restriction. we can t have any family members working for us. it takes all the sense in the world. if your son-in-law screws up, what are you going to do? you re not going to fire him. you have to have thanksgiving dinner with him. so i think this is way past any rational reason to keep both ivanka and jared in the white house. i mean, when you realize that jared has had to amend his sf-86 form about foreign meetings three times. he s had 100 meetings that he didn t disclose, and then we find out that he was also negotiating with the russian
i mean, these guys just can t come clean. and it tells the country that they have a lot to hide. you know, there s an old saying, if you ve got nothing to hide, you ve got nothing to fear. and the fact that they keep hiding stuff i think leads people to the conclusion that there s a lot more there. and the truth will be very harmful to the trump campaign and the trump administration. so unbelievable they didn t disclose. they only disclose once the news media, whether it s new york times or nbc gets the story, that s not coming clean. so i think this is just going to be more trouble for the trump administration and going back to the narrative that the russian government was there to try to help donald trump during the campaign and all that that entails. now, it s not new news that people have taken issue, many democrats, with president trump s family being part of the administration. at this point does jared kushner need to lose his security