Republican senators like Lindsey Graham and Chuck Grassley appearing to give the president permission to get rid of his Attorney General but theres another way to look at it which is that they seem to be trying to say any action off until after the midterm elections and the confirmation of judge kavanaugh to the Supreme Court and the question is are they telling the president he should get rid of Jeff Sessions or hoping they can slow walk this until things calm down but if youre bob mueller you see november as a day on the calendar that to get your job done before just in case. So susan in his punchback Yesterday Yegs Listjeff session the litany of things he had been leading that were on point with what the president wanted, from enforcing immigration laws, focusing on ms13, the gang, promoting economic growth, et
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July 18th. Former acting ice director thomas homan says this tragedy could have been avoided with better immigration policy. He was in the country illegally, if he wasnt here this girl would be alive today. If we had a border wall, border enforcement he wouldnt have been here. Stone cold facts. Jillian he is a fake name and Social Security number to work at an iowa farm for years. His boss is speaking out. I wish i had seen a difference but i didnt. Nobody saw a difference. This guy stayed around for 35 days after he did this. Our employee was not who he said he was. We are still shocked to learn that one of our employees was involved. Shannon investigators are trying to figure out his motive. Mollys family is preparing their final goodbyes at her funeral this sunday. Jillian a lot to unfold here. Secretary of state mike pompeo making another trip to north korea after reports claim the rogue nation is not taking significant steps to denuclearize, a promise made in the june summit betwe
A recap of the days headlines and a look at whats in store for tomorrow. Lawyer would have done what Jeff Sessions did. He was part of the campaign, you cant oversee an investigation of a campaign you were part of so he had to recuse himself. Shannon why does the president get that . I dont know. Is that a lawyer, he is frustrated, he thinks this is a witchhunt, jeff did the right thing legally but mueller is now very deep into his investigation. This conflict is far beyond mueller and recusal. This is not a good working relationship from what i can tell. For the good of the nation we need an Attorney General that has the confidence of the president and im not blaming Jeff Sessions. There is no finer man but at the end of the day there are plenty of conservative judges and lawyers that i think could do this job, the we can get somebody confirmed but if he does replace Jeff Sessions the burden will be on the president to pick somebody highly qualified, give mueller the space he needs to
Advice of Career Lawyers in the Justice Department. It wasnt just a whim of Jeff Sessions, this was a serious consideration went into this. Im sure Jeff Sessions didnt want to recuse himself but that was the advice he got. The president has been loudly lamenting sessions decision to do just that. Sessions pushing ban on his part saying essentially that the actions to have department of justice will not be improperly influenced by political considerations, thats the thing that he shot back, your thoughts on that . Yeah, i think the other thing was that was the beginning of the statement, at the end of the statement he mentioned that the people in his department and him are committed to advancing the rule of law and i think that was a very important thing too because hes basically suggesting there that donald trump is trying to get the Justice Department to do his bidding is trying to avoid the rule of law, rule of man rather than rule of law, i think Jeff Sessions had strong words there