agreed with his decision to recuse himself from the russian investigation. then another rumor, that sessions was spotted at the white house, maybe he resigned at lunch. our justice department producer reporting that he met with the white house counselor and tom price on health care issues. the bottom line is, yes, there is still a lot of speculation about who is in and who s out, but we for this month after month and the president has still remained firmly in control and very few of these rumors and the rest have panned out. martha: and we have seen in the past, sometimes it takes them a while if he s thinking about maybe getting rid of someone. sometimes it s just talk. he doesn t like to fire them. in the case of sean spicer, he resigned. in the case of reince priebus martha: he s a softy. he pushes and pushes until they leave. martha: it raises a lot of questions. jeff sessions has known people that is overseen some of the most successful efforts of the administration, a
i love you, i m going to say it. you spend 2 minutes talking about the murder case and yout. went through all of the evidence and i agree with you. sean: i love inviting harvey levin on my show to beat me up.de i apologize.. sean: no, go ahead. to me he is the guilty is man i ve ever seen in a murder case and i ve covered this gavel to gavel. h that said, he was found not guilty. everything you just said about that murder case is why iai believe o.j. simpson should be paroled. the judge in that kidnapping case was a renegade judge who just wanted her pound to flesh because she was passed off that oj was found not guilty. she shouldn t have the right to superimpose a verdict in a murder case, shouldn t have. served even nine years for this. he shouldn t have. the parole board did what they should have done.
department effectively. let him, basically, advise maria: wow. i don t know why he recused himself in the beginning. he shouldn t have. clearly he wasn t involved with the russians can be. maria: that s a big statement. the alternative you just let the special counsel go off and to his investigation and start focusing more on getting big achievements done in congress rather than defending your honor through twitter. now, i understand why the president is upset. i would be upset too given what we learned from the vip comey hearing jim comey hearing, not to mention the fact that he was leaking and if he felt he was given an incorrect order by the president or inappropriate order, he should have stepped forward at that time. maria: and not be a leaker. and how about loretta lynch being an on to instructionist? telling him to call it a matter we need the administration to be disciplined, and it simply is not. the american people did not focus, for instance, on the big financial
is that the president, in my judgment, had a conversation with jim comey he shouldn t have had. trying to get them to relieve the pressure on my client over his russia ties or whatever it was, that was inappropriate. not willing to say that it rises to obstruction of justice. but then later on firing him, it s bad conduct. you call it whatever you want but i think that s the stuff of a legitimate congressional investigation. bret: i want to play this one long sound bite from today. that i have breaking news talk about in the minutes. we don t have that one. let s talk about this briefly. this is the back-and-forth toda today. intelligence officials who say i ve never felt pressured, never
is that the president, in my judgment, had a conversation with jim comey he shouldn t have had. trying to get them to relieve the pressure on my client over his russia ties or whatever it was, that was inappropriate. not willing to say that it rises to obstruction of justice. but then later on firing him, it s bad conduct. you call it whatever you want but i think that s the stuff of a legitimate congressional investigation. bret: i want to play this one long sound bite from today. that i have breaking news talk about in the minutes. we don t have that one. let s talk about this briefly. this is the back-and-forth toda today. intelligence officials who say i ve never felt pressured, never