it s hard for a person like me who really disagrees with almost everything jeff sessions has ever said in his entire life to realize that he s what s standing between constitutional norms and the president of the united states. and we really need him to continue to stand up like that. and so i can only applaud those five senators for speaking some truth to power to him and to try to encourage him to stick with it. peter, cynthia, josh, stand by for a second. i want to go to steve kornacki. as you can see on the bottom of the screen, we are now getting those results in arizona. steve, tell us what we know. this is the way it works in arizona. they come in in giant bunches. what you see right now, maricopa county in the phoenix area, more than half the votes in the entire state comes out of here. what you re looking at is the early vote, the vote that was cast before election day in maricopa county. the vast majority of the vote is mcsally. is cast early.
there. that is one that may encourage him to follow through where a year ago he chose not to. josh, let me ask you this, though. we have had reports that the president might want to replace the white house counsel don mcgahn because don mcgahn doesn t think the president should be discussing, considering or taking action on pardoning paul manafort. obviously if the president is thinking of getting rid of jeff sessions, that s directly related to the mueller investigation, which means mcgahn could go or be forced out, which just forces the white house into a little more of a crisis than it s already in. right. our sense has been that mcgahn had been contemplating leaving for some time. the white house decided to stay on in part to see through what is president trump s supreme court nomination of brett kavanaugh. so in order to have that opportunity, i think the sense was that mcgahn wanted to
the white house so much, we re just going to call him peter whitehouse. josh kirsten is also at the white house, and cynthia, a member of the justice department. cynthia, let s go to you. this talk about firing jeff sessions shouldn t be too much of a surprise if you ve seen the president s tweets. he s been mad at sessions for a long time. what do you make of him actually discussing firing him with people in the white house? i agree with you it s not exactly news. he s been trying to bully this guy to resign for a long time. i think it s a sign of frantic behavior. look at the position he s in. manafort is convicted and is about to be convicted again. cohen has flipped. immunity has been given. his white house counsel has given 30 hours of testimony to mueller. i think he feels the walls closing in and is in just a panic and does not know what to do. if he does go ahead and do it, i
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we start with what president obama said last night about the arrest of professor henry gates. with us is lynn sweet, and also journalist and commentator stephen a. smith, he ll be with us in a minute. when we talked to the officers throughout the department, you could see that they were really stunned by being not having the greatest regard or actually taking those comments to heart. i would say to you that they were very much deflated. well, the police have come out and said they ll have a commission report on this, look into it, but they basically stand by the decision made by the officer sergeant crowley, they say they acted correctly according to the book. here we go. it was an interesting press conference, chris, because he backed them up and said some airspace for whatever they might figure out, that they could learn from this incident, move ahead. which i thought signaled that he was giving a benefit of the stout. stefb smith, thank you for joining us. it s