they do not think that michael cohen is above reproach here. herman: don t forget about the fives report that is questionable in terms of how bad. paid they use false data for that fisa report and still trying to investigate that. so i put this in the same category. we went to see if it helped kicked off the investigation from the beginning. lisa: the screams of overreach and might alienate some of the republican s on capitol hill who said less of let this investigation run its course. i think he risks alienating those people because this is a clear overreach by sba. president trump at this point up yesterday and is a great point in a sense you get somebody like rod rosenstein that is essentially given so much latitude and leeway in this investigation even looking at things like obstruction of justice but he s the same guy that laid out the case for hiring comey is about. there s just a clear double
letter from rosenstein and sessions and the white house tried to explain, even if that were true, that too would be a problem for attorney general jeff sessions because he also should have been recused from that. his recusal said he would not oversee anything at the justice department that had anything to do with the 2016 campaign. both the reason james comey was fired, russia. and the fake pretext they came up with for why james comey was fired, clinton e-mails, both of those are scarily in the bounds of jeff sessions recusal. he s supposed to be recused from thinking that had anything to do with the campaign. in either case, he should have had nothing to do with firing comey. if he was fired for any of those reasons, the attorney general should have been recused and also from the process of hiring comey s replacement. but jeff sessions absolutely has
attorney general jeff sessions because he also should have been recused from that. his recusal said he would not oversee anything at the justice department that had anything to do with the 2016 campaign. both the reason james comey was fired, russia, and the fake pretext they came up with, clinton e-mails, both of those are squarely in the bounds of jeff sessions recusal. he s supposed to be recused from anything to do with the campaign. in either case, he should have had nothing to do with firing james comey. if the fbi director was fired for either of those reasons, the attorney general should have been recused from that and arguably, he shouldn t also have been recused from the process of hiring comey s replacement. but jeff sessions absolutely has been involved in the process of selecting james comey s replacement. he s been doing the interviewing. he was involved in that firing