that may have been may or june, but there was a period of time, and it was over several weeks where it happened where the president was berating sessions over the recusal from the russia probe and sessions at one point offered his resignation, you know, the president wouldn t accept it, but then sessions still handed in a letter, president said i wouldn t accept the resignation, but it took a while before he gave the letter back, and this played out over a long period of time. longer than this issue with mueller did. if you can stay with us, i want to bring back carl bernstein. it s stunning. it s a huge story, and i m going to assume that maggie is as good a reporter as she always is. and if the fact is that the white house counsel threatened to resign over this, but what it shows once again is that the president at all costs does not want this investigation to go
as necessary. why should our dollars flow to an organization that hates us or hates our allies. it once served an interest. those who believe in sovereignty and america first. love what s happening at the u.n. right now. or at the very least what is not happening. why don t we pay attention to them? when is the last time they enforced a resolution without asking for help called the measure military? that should major it happen. this is an important critique of this happening under the administration. lisa: there has long been criticism of the u.n. and anti-israel bias as well. one thing important to keep in mind. 100 senators signed a letter back in april to the u.n. secretary expressing that concern of saying, look, this anti-israel bias is not okay. and expressing that concern as well. now we see nikki haley taking action. you know, and rolling back some of those funds. pete: easy to write a letter. tougher to do it. the trump administration actually doing it. todd: go to the twitter
the dog took a leak on the fireplace. he is a rescue. they rescued him in august. they are still working on training. greg: s rescue what used to be a pound dog? kimberly: something like that. super cute. a 9-year-old sends the president $3 and gets a letter back. elisha was concerned. he heard from his parents president trump was only going to take a salary of $1. take a lesson. how is he going to eat or drink or pay if he needs to pay for his bills? kimberly: in january, elijah sent him three bucks. he got the letter back,
considering he wrote this letter back in april saying that he was someone alleged to have conducted political campaigns as part of a pro russia lobbying effort. that same letter alleges that he s affiliated with russian counterintelligence. of course he says that s not true, but these are questions that were asked long before the revelations of what is now i guess day eight of this latest sort of slap over what went on at this meeting so congress was already on to this gentleman. he himself has told the press that yes, i work for the russian government, i came out of the russian military, i was at the meeting and these are the kind of things that we talked about. more sort of logs adds to the fire and here again, you know, if we accept that everything we ve heard, this shifting story has been inaccurate or untrue up until now, there s almost nothing that you can rely on from the white house and from
let s bring in natasha bertrand, breaking news editor at business insider. what do you know about this man? so, rinat came to the utnite states in 1994. his ties to russian military intelligence are a little bit murky. he was a member of the gru in afghanistan in the late 1980s and then came to the u.s. and started working as a political lobbyist, and his wife has actually been extremely effective for all intents and purposes. he s known as are a very smooth political operator. he s been here for almost two decades now and he became an american citizen in 2009. he denies having any ties, currently, to any russian spy agencies, which is important to note and there is no evidence that he still does. but that being said, he was on the radar, apparently, of u.s. lawmakers at the very least. we re learning that senator chuck grassley had sent a letter back in april to the doj flagging this man. what more do you know about