Himself. Almost immediately after he took office. And if he was going to recuse himself, he should have told me prior to taking office and i would have quite simply picked somebody else. So i think thats a bad thing, not for the president but for the presidency. I think its unfair to the presidency. And thats the way i feel. When pressed by another reporter whether he would fire sessions, the president said well have to wait and see and i quote, time will tell which does seem to mean the attorney general is twisting in the wind. The bigger issue is whether the president understands or cares what the role of the attorney general is supposed to be in our democracy. He criticized sessions for recusing himself for anything to do with the russian investigation. Today the president tweeted attorney general Jeff Sessions has taken a very weak position on Hillary Clinton crimes where are the emails and dnc server and intel leakers. Putting aside he may be trying to divert attention from the ru
colleagues up on capitol hill in the senate started putting out statements supporting him, attesting to his integrity, some going as far as to make the case that he was correct to recuse himself which as you know is at the very core of what angers president trump about sessions. you know, kirsten, what sort of message does it send to other senators or folks on capitol hill who may be facing whether it s tough votes on health care when the president says i ll have your back, he turns on jeff sessions, why would they believe he would support them when times get tough? they shouldn t. we ve discussed before that loyalty is a one-way street with donald trump. he expects it to flow to him and doesn t necessarily feel the need to send it back the other direction. it raises the questions why would anybody want this job or take the job when they see what s happening. i think the reason he isn t firing, one of the reasons is because we often talk what would it take to get donald trump s bas
comey handled the russia investigation. here now before the president makes a move he says outright it s how he handled the russia investigation. that s really what this is. the president has said it himself and it s with a pattern here that he s upset with a number of people whether it be sessions or mueller or comey before him because it s an investigation he s uncomfortable with and that he wants to go away. and as the president often does, he measures loyalty and effectiveness via the prism of how does it affect him himself and with sessions here, he s the latest victim to fall to that. sessions did not defend him from this russia investigation did, not make it go away and therefore, sessions is not doing his job right. that s the way the president sees it. it s not the way democrats see it, it s not the way many republicans i speak to see it, but that s the way the president sees it. keer kirsten have you seen anything like this? of course not.