even imlying that the allegation filled tweets were maybe questions instead of outright declarations. the president has been doing this a little over a year and i think a lot of the things that he says you guys sometimes take literally. meanwhile refusing to say whether a federal prosecutor should do the meddling. if confirmed he would head any russia probe after jeff sessions recused himself for failing to disclose two meetings with the russian ambassador during his confirmation hearing. something the senator took issue with. it s hard to come to any other conclusion i think he
collusion there s no suggestion that they all had a private discussion. they were in the same room. isn t that the problem with all this stuff, there are all suggestions that the democrats have failed to connect to any kind of collusion or anything that warrants the speculation. i m not saying there aren t questions, but questions don t always lead to the right kinds of answers. how important is it that the democrats show some there there at some point. i would say when does the department of justice show there s some there there soon. they ve leaked out that we haven t seen any collusion between the trump people and the russians. what will be the straw that breaks the camel s back? how much can they show that equates something really wrong as opposed to circumstance. it s going to be some meeting, some discussion, some quid pro quo going on between some entintermediatry with the p campaign if that were to happen and the russian official.
as far as i m concerned every investigation conducted by the department of justice is an independent investigation. we prosecute tens of thousands of people every year and every one of those defendants deserves an independent prosecutor. that was president trump s nominee for deputy attorney general yesterday responding to democratic calls for a special prosecutor to oversee the investigations into russia s alleged election hacking. sheldon white house was one of the senators asking the questions. he s a member of the judiciary committee and leading a congressional subcommittee investigation into russia s allegationed interference into the election. good morning. good morning. how are you allison? i m doing well. it sounded like he would not commit to naming a special prosecutor. were you satisfied with the answer? yeah i m satisfied with that.
maybe questions instead of outright declarations. the president is a neophyte to politics, he s been doing this for a little over a year. a lot of things he says you guys sometimes take literally. reporter: meanwhile president trump s pick for deputy attorney general refusing to say whether a special prosecutor should investigate russia s election meddling. i m simply not in a position to answer the question because i don t know the information that they know, the folks in the position to make that decision. reporter: if confirmed, rod rosenstein would head any probe after jeff sessions recused himself for failing to disclose two meetings he had with the russian ambassador during his confirmation hearing. something senator al franken took issue with. it s hard to come to any other conclusion that he just perjured himself. i think he should come before the committee and explain this.
had a regular dude out there ombre with the twitter feed. if he says something there s ramifications and unintended consequences and he needs to take that responsibly and the other side of it is think of people like sean spicer in every day. trying to defend the indefensible. spicer has to make his own choice about how he does his job. at a certain point we all started talking about how the poor white house officials that have to defend this, they are public servants and taxpayer paid. one more point and that is that senator al franken went further than he has to date yesterday to say he believes that jeff sessions purgered himself during his confirmation hearing when he said he didn t know of any meetings with the russians. it s a tough line to walk and you can watch him stumble