This compromise bill. So as you mention the politics are fascinating. You have the president and Vice President calling rank and file democrats asking them to vote in favor of the package. You had nancy pelosi and Elizabeth Warren on the other side saying stand up and fight. Bottom line it got through. There were conservative defections because some of them wanted to vote to fight the immigration executive order. It now appears that that will happen in february when funding for Homeland Security is due to expire, sean. Mike, thank you. Joining us mow from the white house is foxs own ed henry. I guess weve got a new world order in washington tonight, ed. We do. And why would john boehner not wait for the new congressional majority and just do a shortterm cr . Well, thats a good question. And i think John Boehners going to be facing that come january. Everyones going to run out of town now if in fact this gets through the senate. Thats still a hurdle that has to be met. Youve got democra
How important this process is, to getting confirmation, as we saw what happened in 1986. More importantly, i think he took head on a lot of the critics and criticism of decisions that hes made and votes hes cast. And i thought in particular, with cory booker becoming historic, you saw the first sho for the 2020 democratic nomination for president. Lets just put that on the table. Certainly, thats part of the drama and theater of what he chose to do. But i also found it somewhat ironic that just in january of 2016, in legislation that he cosponsored with mr. Sessions, that celebrated those who walked from walked the selma mile, if you will, that he referred to him as it was a great honor to work with him and that he appreciated his commitment to civil rights. And yet now sees him as he referred to him as a danger
with danger to our country, as hes been quoted to say. The politics is not lost here. I think everyone in this town understands that. And to have this staged the way it was wit
Protect trump from a special prosecutor. Thats right. He blames him for two things number one, the president is a combatant. He likes people who fight. So he doesnt like that instead of fighting, sessions recused himself. But he believes initial step what set in motion the process that led to special Counsel Robert Mueller who is causing tremendous headaches for the president and his family. His understanding of the role of the Attorney Generalship. Can you square that what most people think an Attorney General should be today . Man or woman since at least janet reno, theyre seen as the countrys Attorney General, not the president s personal lawyer. Thats right. There have been people very close to them as the Attorney General, like kennedy. Or bobby kennedy. He would be the prime example but thats not what we think of. We dont think of the Attorney General being the president s lawyer. We think of him being the lawyer
for the country. In a way thats very important institutionally. It
Today the russia investigation took a major step forward. For the first time a member of the president s inner circle faced questions on capitol hill. Put another way, this investigation has now come within one man of the president. He is arguably the closest man to the president. White house Senior Adviser and soninlaw Jared Kushner spent more than two hours with the Senate Intelligence committee and then he made a Public Statement saying he never colluded with russia. It comes as trump pours the pressure on his own Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, who rekuzed himself from the Justice Departments russia investigation months ago. A decision the president has not been able to get past. He wrote about sessions on twitter this morning, referring to his own Attorney General, mind you, as our beleaguered Attorney General. And tonight the Washington Post as a new report headline, trump leaves sessions twisting
in the wind Bile Berating him publicly. It reads in Part Sessions was once conside
Beyond those who have been so outspoken to push back on that. Will we see other senators come out today and take a flake or corkerlike position on that . Well find out. But right now i doubt it. A standing ovation. I want to bring my panel in. Robert costa, National Political reporter for the Washington Post and bret stephens, an oped columnist for the New York Times and megan murphy, the editor of Bloomberg Business week. Brett, i want to start with you. One trump critic said the ice is beginning to crack. What were seeing with bob corker, with jeff flake, youre going to see more republicans follow suit. Do you think thats the case . Follow suit in denouncing the president . Yes. Or in renouncing their political ambitions. Fair point. This is the key thing. Theres a law in economics, greshams law, bad money drives out good. In a sense what we have is bad republican politicians driving out good ones who are just removing themselves literally
from circulation. There was this conceit amo