The persons who surrounded the president declined to carry out orders or aseed to his request. People like don mcgahn. On more than one occasion the president called and directed mcgahn to ask rosenstein to fire mueller. Mcgahn refused. Considering the president s request to be an Inflection Point and wanted to hit the brakes. There was also cory lewandowski. The president dictated a message for him to deliver to then attorney general Jeff Sessions directing sessions to publicly announce that quote, not with standing his recusal from the russia investigation the president had done nothing wrong and to limit the investigation to future election interference only. He did not deliver that message and tried passing it off. The message was never delivered. Former staff secretary rob porter was asked to reach out to rachel brand to discuss the possibility of her replacing sessions and ending the investigation. He didnt do so because he was uncomfortable with the task. There were some in Dona
Easter sunday. There is still rubble in front of here. The clock tower is stuck at 8 45 a. M. Thats when the bomber is believed to have attacked when worshippers gathered here. The death toll is staggering here. More than 500 wond unded. A memo cites a Foreign Intelligence Agency saying they had chatter of possible threats coming from a Sri Lankan Group and the possibility that they were planning suicide attacks against catholic churches and against the Indian High Commission here. Despite the warning, nothing was in place to protect this church from the deadly attack and the other two churches nor the three Luxury Hotels also attacked. One government minister called it negligence and in competenco. The government has apologized for letting the crucial piece of information slip through the cracks. There has not yet been a claim of responsibility. This is a country thats still very much in shock and mourning. One government minister said this is a new type of terrorism for sri lanka. Th
Foreign minister. Joining me now our msnbc legal analysts cynthia, and glen kergsner, and malcolm nance. Even though its sunday and im alert and awake, clearly i cant read. Thank you very much for being here. You know, the idea that intelligence officials are not comfortable sharing intelligence information with the president of the United States really shows still 2 1 2 years into his presidency shows that we are in new rather dangerous territory, isnt that right, malcolm . We are absolutely in dangerous territory. And the danger here is not that intelligence officials are not sharing information with the president. They are doing that because they have an obligation to it constitution of the United States to protect, defend, and uphold the constitution. The problem is they cannot trust the president of the United States with the details of highly sensitive classified information because he may, as the report said, either have an overreaction to this or share that information with a f