investigation of the president. earlier this week the new york times broke the news that two days after jeff sessions recused himself president trump quote berated mr. sessions and told him he should reverse his decision, an unusual and potentially inappropriate request. mr. sessions refused. the confrontation is being investigated by the special prosecutor robert mueller, iii, as are the president s public and private attacks on mr. sessions and efforts to get him to resign. and tonight axios is reporting, quote, president trump pressured attorney general jeff sessions to reclaim control of the russia investigation on at least four separate occasions, three times in person and once over the phone, according to sources familiar with the conversations. jonathan swan s axios report said quote the sustained pressure made several officials uncomfortable because they viewed it as improper and worried it could be politically and legally problematic.
mr. sessions refused. the confrontation is being investigated by the special prosecutor robert mueller, iii, as are the president s public and private attacks on mr. sessions and efforts to get him to resign. and tonight axios is reporting, quote, president trump pressured attorney general jeff sessions to reclaim control of the russia investigation on at least four separate occasions, three times in person and once over the phone, according to sources familiar with the conversations. jonathan swan s axios report said quote the sustained pressure made several officials uncomfortable because they viewed it as improper and worried it could be politically and legally problematic. axios says trump s conversations with sessions about reversing his recusal occurred throughout last year and that trump told sessions he d be a hero to conservatives if he did the right thing and took back control over the russia investigation, according to two sources with knowledge of their conversations, trump
it s adamning piece of evidence because sessions must have told him at some point, the recusal was not a discretion nar act on sessions part because someone might question him after the fact. it s written in the department of justice regulations that if you worked on a campaign, you cannot subsequently serve in investigative capacity into that campaign. which is the position that sessions found himself in. so when donald trump is coming and asking him to withdraw his recusal. he s basicallying asking him to violate doj regulations, for what purpose? there can be no other purpose but to shut down the investigation. otherwise you shouldn t care who s conducting the investigation because you re not worried about where it s going to go. now the firing of james comey which the president tried to rewrite has having nothing to do
axios says trump s conversations with sessions about reversing his recusal occurred throughout last year and that trump told sessions he d be a hero to conservatives if he did the right thing and took back control over the russia investigation, according to two sources with knowledge of their conversations, trump also told sessions he d be a hero if he investigated hillary clinton. and today we got the first taste of the cohen tapes as rachel and i were just discussing. the michael cohen tapes, as was acknowledged in an ef den tear proceedings in manhattan yesterday donald trump s in-house lawyer, michael cohen, made audio recordings of some of his conversations. and today national public radio correspondent tim mack released on mpr his audio recording of a threatening phone call he received from michael cohen about a story that tim mack was writing during the presidential campaign for the daily beast
president about trying to fire jeff sessions to then moving on to let s get him to reverse his recusal and the president spending the better part of a year to do that. what you see in the conversations with jeff sessions is president s approach to federal law enforcement. that is he expects federal law enforcement to go after his opponents, prosecute hillary clinton, and back off investigations into himself. it s adamning piece of evidence because sessions must have told him at some point, the recusal was not a discretion nar act on sessions part because someone might question him after the fact. it s written in the department of justice regulations that if you worked on a campaign, you cannot subsequently serve in investigative capacity into that campaign. which is the position that sessions found himself in. so when donald trump is coming and asking him to withdraw his recusal. he s basicallying asking him to violate doj regulations, for what purpose? there can be no other purpose