people like you, it really stands out and there s no more denying this is a problem he has. yeah, it s a problem. and i want to go back to a tweet that i received yesterday from former white house press secretary mike mccurry. he was there, he was my first press secretary i ve ever covered under bill clinton in 1997. and he said, you know, i tangled with april ryan quite a bit. but one thing i did learn from her questions is more about issues of race and poverty. and those questions, when we ask questions, it s real, it s legitimate, it s about people, it s not about us. and this president has made it about us instead of about the american people. the issues that are on the table for all america. and, you know, it s interesting low pressuring remembering back what the president said about me friday, i m going to say this i m a winner because at that first press conference the president had he thought i was so much of a winner and had enough gravitas
do you know what the younger abstention doctrine is? how about the pullman abstention doctrine? i have you ll see that a lot in federal court. all right. that man matthew peterson has officially withdrawn his name in consideration for the lifetime judicial appointment. in a letter sent to president trump, peter said in part, i hope my nearly two decades of public service might carry more weight than my two worst minutes on television. however, i m no stranger to political realities and do not wish to be a continued distraction. he called me friday. he said, look, kennedy. you know, do your job, man. i m not upset. he said do your job. i said mr. president, i would ask him to step down. i don t want to see him suffer
one of the questions i asked him about the dober case. some say dober from bu i m from louisiana. that s like marburg versus madison. exceptions to when a federal court will review state court decisions and carved out certain things, as did pullman. i get why you were asking the questions. i was just shocked at the answers. frankly, i was, too. it s something you learn in law school. is it true that the president contacted you? he did. what did he say? he called me friday. he said, look, kennedy, you know, do your job, man. i m mot upsenot upset. do your job. he said what do you think we ought to do? i said mr. president, i would ask mr. peterson to step down. i don t want to see him suffer any more. and he said i think that s what we ll do. and he said just keep doing your
of the table with president trump at one head, sessions at another, and papadopoulos in the middle on the left. and that was reportedly to discuss russia. i think we ve got committees looking, both intelligence and judiciary, and these things are hard to ferret out exactly what went on, and people often don t give you the straight scoop in terms of their testimony. so we will see how that turns out. speaking of people not giving you the straight scoop, former trump foreign policy adviser, carter page, told me friday he told then senator now attorney general sessions that he was traveling to russia in the summer of 2016. but take a listen to what sessions had to tell your committee, the judiciary committee, about this last month. you don t believe that surrogates from the trump campaign had communications with the russians? is that what you re saying? i did not, and i m not aware of anyone else that did.
are you perhaps less of an absolutist like me than you were on friday? i think this touch es everybody not connected in different ways, particularly people with young kids, a whole new world. campbell called me friday, had gone early friday afternoon to pick up our kids from school. she told me around 1:00 p.m. all the mothers there picking up their kids were in tears. this idea, you send your kids to school and you just assume, sort of intuitively sending your kids to school is this safe place, this safe space. you don t have to think about it, once they re dropped off, in the hands of caring teachers. that was taken away friday. i know i rushed from work and had to fight and actually called the school, can i pick up my kids. they said, you know, everybody wants to pick up their kids. we re trying to keep a sense of normalcy around here. wait until their normal dismissal time. you were talking about last