mueller s interest regarding attorney general sessions and president trump? right. so special counsel mueller has shown intense interest in a period this summer in late july where president trump was publicly shaming jeff sessions, saying that he was disappointing him. he was calling him beleaguered on twitter, and behind the scenes he was frequently fuming about the russia investigation and the attorney general. what special counsel mueller s investigation is trying to discern is whether in those conversations he was trying to fire jeff sessions or push jeff sessions out so he could exert more control over the investigation. as we ve reported and others have countless times, the president is very upset that jeff sessions recused himself. he wanted an attorney general who was more loyal, to not think he should have recuses himself. and in these efforts, the special counsel wants to know was he trying to fire jeff sessions so he could put someone in who would handle the investigation
do you wish that nixon had twitter back then because in terms of a realtime rorschach test of what is happening in the president s mind, i mean twitter allows if that s really a full picture of what s going on in trump s mind, i don t think it is. thank god nixon didn t have twitter. but he had the tapes. yeah, he had the tapes, which he thought would always be secret, and then there are thousands of hours. and if you listen to these things and carl and i do this, you know, somewhat obsessively for the historical lesson in it, it s appalling. nixon used the presidency as an instrument of personal as carl says, the criminality was staggering. we don t know where this investigation goes. in the final days, we wrote about the firing of archibald cox, who was the special