republican who says he does not think it would be a good idea and susan collins also pushing back against firing sessions. he still has some allies in congress. we have seen this theme where the president has been able to push the boundaries and see what he can get away with. republicans have not been able to take him on many public fashion. the question is will that change if he does take the step of actually removing jeff sessions as his attorney general. the president can t stomach jeff sessions. why does he just fire him? i think because one, he has the support of republicans in the senate and his former colleagues and i think because he realizes that he does not want to realize it probably that the political fire storm that would result, it may still come to that, wolf, the president could read the tea leaves and see how dramatic a moment that would be. ma matters what matters is there someone he can replace attorney sessions
the cabinet but perhaps the most effective. the make america great again agenda. and of course the forced separation at the border, a month or so back, is someone who is carrying out what the president wants. he told people around him he s not going to quit. graham s comments are interesting. because he was one of the leading voices counseling trump against firing sessions for a time. thinking that and mcconnell has more or less said, like, don t give us another confirmation hearing. we can t handle this. sessions has a lot of allies in the senate. still, they don t want to see him go. could it be that lindsey graham, again, someone who has been in the upper chamber since the 90s could it be that lindsey graham in that interview, that sound bite we ve been playing, was seeing that as sort of a flare? he was throwing up a flare for
and i m brooke baldwin here in tried to do that it would make new york. let s go to washington, d.c. matters so much worse for him. instead it s used just as a way the lead with jake tapper to kind of gin up the base, to starts right now. get people excited, to get people mobilized online and thanks, brooke. elsewhere and to undermine the i mean, omarosa showed no legitimate sy of the whole signs of this kind of behavior enterprise. the fbi, the justice department in the three seasons on the and the mueller probe. firing sessions gets you apprentice. the lead starts right now. what? nothing at this point. right? president trump going off after because the mueller report s not secret tapes are released again. going to jeff sessions but rod this time by the reality show rosenstein. so what does firing jeff villain no one wanted in the sessions gets you zero in the white house it seems except for game tie senator that runs the president trump. judiciary committee chuck preside
opinions. the tweets are an interesting subset because the white house and the doj has said they consider his tweets to be official president sial statemes but we re seeing over and over as a rationalization as that s just how he talks. he s just talking about firing sessions, first m right. there is a real question of what you lose as a private citizen that trump has not been willing to give into so on obstruction i don t think their argument has changed. they re just not validating it in their minds. i don t know that mueller is going to see it that way. it s fascinating, what you give up as a private citizen when you become president and there s also what this president believes you gain when you take that oath of office and in many ways it s not only to not have to answer certain questions but to answer to certain valid issues and questions and legal concerns. well, one of the core
that s still something people are having to go into mueller s investigators to answer questions about, isn t it? it seems like this is something that keeps coming up. it s not just firing sessions. it s maybe firing rosenstein, maybe firing mueller. we get this dribbled in piecemeal as it comes out. he s talked about firing or somehow getting rid of all these different people. i think suggests this is part of a pattern of behavior and there s got to be, as with every aspect of the mueller investigation, we probably only know five to 10% of what s actually happening just because the special counsel s office is so tight lipped about everything else. so, yeah, i think that that s a reasonable conclusion to draw here. 5 to 10. i would put that at the high end of what we know. we have some breaking news in the manafort trial. star witness rick gates is now on the stand. ken dilanian is outside the courthouse for us in alexandria, virginia. is this happening before expected and is he giv