president trump anger remains more than a year that jeff sessions recused himself. he was consulting a number of outside allies insiding what to do and one of them being rudy giuliani, more than not in a sense of i am going to fire the attorney general now but rather in a looking backward of should i have done it then. this is a moment that it does not seem in this case, by not firing sessions for three key reasons. first of all, as we know, the president is always mindful of how things played with the conservative base and that basis like jeff sessions. they think he s getting things done at the department of justice. secondly, a lot of republican senators are on capitol hill. long time colleagues have said, don t fire him and he s been loyal to you, if you oust him, we are not going to hear
i . we know this already but there are still more news, for the president not to fire jeff sessions, taking himself out of the russia investigation. jonath jonathan lamir reports at the associated press. on wednesday, trump asked him minim multiple times before about whether sessions should have been fired. quote i don t think the president should do it and i shoulder h told him so. that s saying a lot more. trump has not actively considered firing sessions. president trump wrote on twitter
more than a year that jeff sessions recused himself. he was consulting a number of outside allies insiding what to do and one of them being rudy giuliani, more than not in a sense of i am going to fire the attorney general now but rather in a looking backward of should i have done it now. this is a moment that it does not seem in this case, by not firing sessions for three key reasons. first of all, as we know, the president is always mindful of how things played with the conservative base and that basis like jeff sessions. hest getti secondly, a lot of republican senators are on capitol hill. don t fire him and he s been loyal to you, if you oust him,
private back channel going on between senate republicans that the president has considered firing sessions and the reason he hasn t done it is because he has been told by senate republicans that he can t do it because if he fires sessions they will not confirm someone else for him. if that s restraining him, as i say, it is an incredible piece of news. i don t think that is reported anyplace else. am i wrong? it s been out there the republicans got very concerned last july when they knew about this and they were going to go to these lengths to do it. your story feels solid to me this notion that trump has looked at it and said i want to fire sessions and he s heard directly from senate republicans do not do that. that to me is news. i think the other piece is that his anger and his reaction is of interest to bob mueller. i want one more paragraph from the piece. they re yelling at me to go to break. give me one more second. the day after recausal the president prepared to travel
united states senate and his support with the republican senate is the one thing he can t risk right now. i think that s a very, very firing sessions is that somehow sessions is the bridge too far. sessions has the house and senate behind him. as far as firing mueller. i don t think muellers that same protection. i m with her. i think sessions matters. i m more with amy. i think mueller gets the same degree of protection for pretty much the same reasons. the blil fallout is too great. it exposes the president in a time and a place he doesn t want to be exposed. so he has backed off of that. then you really have to answer that question, what do you have to hide. did any of you read that piece in think, has bob mueller interviewed jeff sessions? is it possible that jeff sessions has been interviewed by bob mueller? we don t know. but that story today made me