the president trying to obstruct the investigation. would the president be trying to obstruct it by getting rid of sessions. that would certainly play into that narrative. this is something that mueller has looked at. he s begun to look at this issue. and it is the reason why mueller exists. you know, if comey had not been fired and had not come out, that the president had asked comey to end the flynn investigation, we wouldn t be in this situation. the president wouldn t be as upset as he is with sessions. the president is really, really disappointed by this and doesn t understand why sessions did this. i think the president finally understands the impact that mueller could have on him. mueller has an enormous amount of power. he s going to look at everything in trump world. i think there s real deep concerns at the white house about that. to mr. peters, i used to know just two things about recess appointments and fact check me here to see if they re still true. number one, it s goo
together with the department of defense to lawfully implement if. as i mentioned before, this was a decision about the military readiness. on that note, let s bring in the starting panel. nbc news chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell is here with us tonight, politics reporter for the new york times jeremy peters co-author of today s front page article in trump s world very weak sessions twist in wind and michael schmidt who covers national security at the times. welcome to you all. mr. schmidt, you re going to get the first question because you cover justice and then some. i suppose you re getting asked this a lot. it may be unanswerable. is sessions safe? if so, for how long? well, i think at least for now, he looks like he is safe. it looks like the folks around the president were able to convince him that this would be a very, very bad thing to do. i think the president has seen that he, the huge fallout from the comey firing and the impact of that. and i thin
change would work, here s a sampling of what they hearder. that s something that the department of defense and the white house will have to work together as implementation takes place and is done so lawfully. again, implementation policy is going to be something that the white house and the department of defense have to work together to lawfully determine. the decision is based on a military decision. it s not meant to be anything more than that. once again, this was a decision based on what was best for the military. and they re going to work together with the department of defense to lawfully implement if. as i mentioned before, this was a decision about the military readiness. on that note, let s bring in the starting panel. nbc news chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell is here with us tonight, politics reporter for the new york times jeremy peters co-author of today s front page article in trump s world very weak sessions twist in wind and michael schmidt who c
of power. he s going to look at everything in trump world. i think there s real deep concerns at the white house about that. to mr. peters, i used to know just two things about recess appointments and fact check me here to see if they re still true. number one, it s good still the next congress comes into town and number two, we haven t had many full-on recesses in the modern era last couple of years. there s a way to keep the senate minimally in session, maybe one or two members present. that way, most of the senate s on summer break. but this can t happen. is that correct? that s correct from my understanding of the senate rules, brian. i think what we ve never seen before and what kind of leaves an open question as to how this might unfold is you ve never had a republican president and a republican congress together at such a tumultuous time where there is the question of the possibility of a recess appointment. now, this assumes that republicans would somehow try to get in the
on that note, let s bring in the starting panel. nbc news chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell is here with us tonight, politics reporter for the new york times jeremy peters co-author of today s front page article in trump s world very weak sessions twist in wind and michael schmidt who covers national security at the times. welcome to you all. mr. schmidt, you re going to get the first question because you cover justice and then some. i suppose you re getting asked this a lot. it may be unanswerable. is sessions safe? if so, for how long? well, i think at least for now, he looks like he is safe. it looks like the folks around the president were able to convince him that this would be a very, very bad thing to do. i think the president has seen that he, the huge fallout from the comey firing and the impact of that. and i think that he s afraid of what could happen, you know, certainly the people around him are afraid of what could happen if he were to fire sessi