Let him finish excuse me a minute. The president , of course, was known to be upset about the recusal in the first place. But look, this is on the front side of all the litany of things you heard about. At the same time, as i said, it went way beyond from the Attorney Generals perspective, way beyond wrong the recusal called for under the regulation thats just wrong. That is wrong. That is not the reading of the regulation. Read it. And the ethics rules for lawyers, rule 1. 7 for lawyers, conflicts of interest. He cannot investigate a campaign in which he was a material part of that campaign. He cannot do it under the ethics rules for lawyers or under the ethics regulations. Open and shut. He could not participate there are three types of investigations that investigation the department of justice. There are three types of ken, what are you saying . There are three types of investigations at the department of justice. Criminal and civil are what people think of most, of course. The fir
eric holder, the only cabinet in history who got accused actually was guilty of contempt of congress which who we as republicans were critical of which by definition is obstruction by the way. we were critical of that. now we re against jeff sessions doing the right thing? if i m the president, i want to have my a.g. fully in the game, operating on anything. and it s not see, one of the things i think you guys maybe not even if there s a conflict of interest? right. this is inconsistent. okay. but if i m donald trump, i m saying he criticized holder for what he did, but now we re all of a sudden going after jeff sessions for doing the right thing and recusing himself? where you re making the assumption is that donald trump heard from all the attorneys who said, no, he s got to recuse himself or it s obstruction. that did not take place. he was going to him and saying, don t get out of it. and you just heard two very distinguished lawyers who had a complete
he was going to him and saying, don t get out of it. and you just heard two very distinguished lawyers who had a completely different read of this. i m not a lawyer. but i work for a law firm. and i can tell you if you get two in the elevator, you ll have two opinions. and that s what happens. some people believe that he had to recuse himself. remember it was because he wanted to protect him at all costs. not for the investigation the article said to hold out as long as you could. in terms of sessions meeting with russians, i was on the military committee, foreign affairs committee. we met with foreign policy all the time, foreign heads of state, quite often and ambassadors. claire mccaskill said i never met with one, and find out two, three months earlier she had tweet go tweeted about meetin with the russian ambassador. i didn t say there was anything wrong with meeting with russians. he mentioned the hearing all i said is it s relevant to the investigation. let s