to go smoother than most folks are anticipating, but we will see. the president has been busy this morning tweeting. there s been quite a tweet storm this morning. lot of it seems to be directed at his own attorney general, jeff sessions. yesterday he described the attorney general as beleaguered. this morning he said that, well i ll just read it to you. when he says attorney general jeff sessions has taken a very, in capitals, weak position on hillary clinton crimes. where are emails and dnc server and intel leakers? what do you make of how he s publicly criticizing his own attorney general? well, i think the attorney general and the president probably need to sit down and deal with their issues, and i think this is a distraction from other activities. it s a distraction from being able to talk about things like how do we have a counter covert influence strategy against the
gone. are you good with that? yes, i m good with that, mr. president. he has the numbers in the senate. i don t get where the confidence comes from that the senate is going to move against the president, when they have not stepped up, not the leadership, and not any significant number of republican senators or congressmen to criticize anything that he has said or done. where is your confidence they d step up in a confirmation hearing? oh, i don t agree with that. i remember sitting with jake tapper at the intro to one session a week or so ago and he just rattled off republican after republican after republican who were making critical remarks. i think you see a lot of s hadation, not outright criticism but you d see hesitation to the point of not moving nominations forward among some republicans. you ve got lindsey graham, john mccain would undoubtedly be sensitive, susan collins, lisa murkowski, a whole cadre of senior republican senators that are going to be particularly
driven. he has just been really working from the outside now against republicans and he is sabotaging himself with his obsession around loyalty and in taking on the russia investigation to the point that s peers to be humiliating jeff sessions his attorney general publicly in an effort to force him out, despite perhaps thinking of all the complications that creates if he ultimately achieves that goal of either firing him or getting him to resign. and the contradiction. so he plays on loyalty. he s not talking about scout loyalty. he s talking about what s been happening with him and his political people around him, trustworthy, loyal, but what about helpful? friendly? courteous? kind? obedient? thrifty? forget about that in government. brave, clean and reverent. lot of ideals. for going off message he got a lot of enthusiasm and applause. he s the president of the united states. of course he s going to get
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latino voters is pending in new york. cooler air relieving the northeast of steamy weather as the west faces threats of severe flooding. cnn meteorologist jennifer gray has the forecast. what do you see, my friend? well, let s start with the good news and that s the northeast. the temperatures feeling very, very nice. by the way this weather report is brought to you by pew rurinp your pet, our passion. new york city will be at 72. 77 on wednesday, 79 on thursday. temperatures feeling nice up and down new england. few showers out there but overall temperature also feel good, get the showers out of the way. it will be very nice. meanwhile we ll stay hot across the center part of the country as well as stormsz in t in the midwest. 95 in little rock, upper 90s across much of texas, the monsoonal moisture still there, alisyn, a lot of major flooding happening around the four corners. thanks so much for keeping an eye on it for us. president trump stepping up