whitaker has to recuse himself holds any merit. harris: why not? since one has some sort of comment disqualified somebody. look at what those people did for months and months when they were still working the case. harris: are democrats making too much out of what happens next? we don t know yet. the president has flirted with the idea of firing sessions for months now, it s no surprise. the most surprising thing is his continued disloyalty to the people who have been loyal to him. jeff sessions was the first soldier who came out on the battlefield for trump when he
investigation? he has already expressed a distrust of the investigation, so he can start putting real holds on what they are able to do, who they can indict, who they can investigate, who they can go forward with. so it can be a real showstopper without firing mueller. that s why there is a big protest planned for tomorrow by indivisible, and i believe, moveon is also doing this, at 5:00 tomorrow in chicago, anyway. so i don t know if it s nationwide at 5:00. there will be a protest about the act of firing sessions. and although he technically said he resigned, he resigned with the request of the president. so that s firing. and the history of the nixon era shows that matthew whitaker has plenty to fear about being investigated himself for obstruction, as acting attorney general, if he does, in any way, conspire with donald trump to do that.
he has already expressed a distrust of the investigation, so he can start putting real holds on what they are able to do, who they can indict, who they can investigate, who they can go forward with. so it can be a real showstopper without firing mueller. that s why there is a big protest planned for tomorrow by indivisible, and i believe, moveon is also doing this, at 5:00 tomorrow in chicago, anyway. so i don t know if it s nationwide at 5:00. there will be a protest about the act of firing sessions. and although he technically said he resigned, he resigned with the request of the president. so that s firing. and the history of the nixon era shows that matthew whitaker has plenty to fear about being investigated himself for obstruction, as acting attorney general, if he does, in any way, conspire with donald trump to do that. jill wine-banks, thank you very much for joining us tonight. i m sure we re going to have a lot to say about this as we continue covering it. tonight s last wo
the budget so low that his investigation grinds to a halt. it s almost comical to hear that. according to the washington post, he has no plans to recuse himself from overseeing the russian probe. a group of democrats are demanding that the administration preserve all documents and materials related and relevant to sessions ouster. there s a group of republicans plus mitt romney who put out statements of allowing mueller to finish his work unimpeded without any interference. how far and how hard will the president be willing to push the senate? we re about to find out. the white house says the president s motive for firing sessions was related to the russia investigation. here s their answer to the question of why did the president ask sessions to resign. the president has made clear for a long time his
seriously. maybe that provides a sort of little bit of check. basically the president s got a lot of power here. he is actively abusing it. you know, the question is are we as a political culture going to tolerate that. eli, americans have power too. they voted tuesday. we re seeing democrats challenging the president over firing sessions. if this is what democrats are being forced to do day one is there any hope of by paipartisap in terms of policy? i m thinking infrastructure, health care, education, things that matter to america, not the president personally. the prospects for that are pretty dim. you heard the likely speaker of the house nancy pelosi coming in and saying she wants to work with the president where they can. the president himself began his press conference yesterday saying the same thing.