for this trip just minutes before the president called it off, bill. what do you make of that? it s hard to know. i mean, i like to give presidents the benefit of the doubt on foreign policy. i think they thought it wasn t wise to have the trip at this time. just on the sessions matter, so interesting. what if trump did fire sessions? rod rosenstein would be acting attorney general. you need one or two defections to make it impossible. rod rosenstein is i think the huge figure in the case. jeff toobin said correctly, of course, they coordinate like mueller and the southern district of new york but they coordinate under the supervision of the deputy attorney general and firing sessions and then rod rosenstein there, that would really be something. trump has a real problem. he doesn t have support in congress to fire the top justice and why the investigation goes on. well, it s also fascinating, too, in the way he s reaching out. in the tweets this morning, the
and no love lost of grassley and sessions and openly feuding over criminal justice reform and could have played into it. graham, as well. cracks, if you will, in the republican defense against sessions, especially notable as at the time where trump is really escalating the feud with his attorney general. talk to us a little bit more about the timing then. is it looking like the midterms is a factor in all of this? reporter: yeah. we have heard that from republican leadership yesterday after the very notable comments of graham, the notable comments of grassley. again, not connected specifically to sessions but indicating some openness at the possibility of the firing and every context you hear republicans say after the midterm elections. of course, firing sessions, that potential ramification of that to not help republicans in midterms and caveat and they include in every step of the way. sunlen, thank you.
without redaction. come, on jeff, can you do it, the country is waiting, exclamation point. rachel smiled my way. some republicans say firing sessions would be a bad idea. the idea that he might be fired because he isn t a political hack is a very, very bad idea. a bad idea for the constitution, bad idea for public trust and the department of justice, a bad idea for the. united states. harris: senate jusdishry chairman chuck grass lee saying he could make time for hearings on a new attorney general. senator lindsay graham jumped onboard bringing in a new sheriff at the d.o.j. here it is. there s just not a good healthy working relationship, from what i can tell. and for the good of the nation, i think we need an attorney general that has the confidence of the president. i m not blaming jeff sessions. there is no finer man. but at the end of the day there are plenty of conservative judges and lawyers that i think
and attorney general in charge of the justice department, never took control of the justice department and it is an incredible thing. rob: is sessions going to go? there was a suggestion the president could rid himself of sessions after the midterm election. i hope the relationship gets better, the president will look for a new attorney general. i m not blaming anybody, i love jeff sessions, but from my point of view the country is not well served. reporter: of the republicans say firing sessions would send a terrible message, this is going to unfold. rob: we appreciate it. jillian: jeff sessions recusing himself from the russia probe
sessions and the democrats are in control of the senate it would be very hard for him to get somebody confirm. i think it would be hard for him to get any cabinet position confirmed, any supreme court justice confirmed for the rest of his presidency for that matter. i do think, though, the difference here between firing comey and firing sessions is this. there s no one telling trump that firing sessions is a good idea right now. and when he fired comey there were people telling him that, notably jared and ivanka. so i think that even the president in all his impetuousness is not ready to pull this trigger before the mid-term elections because he knows how politically calamitous it would be or at least he s being told how politically calamitous it would be. they say hayes talking about after the election because they ve got to wait on the mueller report on obstructions release. mueller s going to do that