himself by firing sessions. that s right, wolf. the firing of jeff sessions certainly changed the news cycle which may be what the president was looking for after losing the house to the democrats last night in the mid terms and a news conference that went off the rails. it was expected to be a victory lap instead descended into chaos while president played coy and didn t tip his hand on his decision to fire jeff sessions. we re looking for different people for different positions, very common after the mid terms. asked about democrats riding the mid terms into power in the house of representatives, he bristled at the suggest he ll be under a sly of investigations. they can play that thing but we can play it better because we have a thing called the united states senate and a lot of questionable things were done between leaks of classified
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just laid out that the special counsel is after. john heilemann, firing sessions, not surprising and potentially not politically perilous for the president. but naming whitaker could be like all things trump, the second half of the sentence that gets him in trouble. sure. although in some sense also not surprising, i think the thing so jarring what s jarring about this is not we ve talked for months about the fact sessions is going to go some time after the midterms. it s that it happened today. right. and that, i something that did not surprise me. i think i said on the air that if trump woke up the day after the election feeling either emboldened or threatened or both. or in this case, as it turns out, both. that s what you see here with this split decision which is not really as much a split decision as people say. he feels clearly emboldened by the enhanced majorities in the senate. he feels clearly threatened by the fact democrats have taken back the house. and
but we ve got similar situation here with whitaker. he certainly is entitled to his opinion. he was speaking at the time without knowledge of what mueller has about this meeting and how it was set up. but any attorney who says anybody would take that meeting, when it was offered as dirt on the opposition and the respondent says it that s what it is, i love it. i m deeply concerned that he would be leading our department of justice. jonathan lemire, you re at the white house today. donald trump didn t really preview this decision but it may have been on his mind when he answered this question. we don t have it, but donald trump asked about firing sessions at the press conference today which may still be going on. we cut away. someone asked him, can you give us clarity of your thinking after the midterms about the deputy attorney general and your deputy attorney general? do they have long-term security? here was his answer. can you give us clarity, sir, on your thinking currently, no
during the campaign. chuck rosenberg, the conduct of the president, vis-a-vis jeff sessions is very much under scrutiny by robert mueller. both the private conduct that robert mueller may or may not have learned about from hours and hours of interviews with people in the cabinet and on the senior level of the white house staff. he s also scrutinized, we know, from mike and his colleagues reporting, his tweets and public statements, most of them we played. what does this picture look like to you as a former prosecutor? does it look like, as frank figliuzzi described, obstruction of justice? i think frank is spot on. here s why. we know that mueller i think we safely assume that mueller is looking at an obstruction of justice case. all of those tweets, all the comments by the president describing what he wants done and how he wants it done look like steps in a path toward obstruction. it strikes me that if you re firing sessions because you re unhappy that he is not