A recap of the days headlines and a look at whats in store for tomorrow. Lawyer would have done what Jeff Sessions did. He was part of the campaign, you cant oversee an investigation of a campaign you were part of so he had to recuse himself. Shannon why does the president get that . I dont know. Is that a lawyer, he is frustrated, he thinks this is a witchhunt, jeff did the right thing legally but mueller is now very deep into his investigation. This conflict is far beyond mueller and recusal. This is not a good working relationship from what i can tell. For the good of the nation we need an Attorney General that has the confidence of the president and im not blaming Jeff Sessions. There is no finer man but at the end of the day there are plenty of conservative judges and lawyers that i think could do this job, the we can get somebody confirmed but if he does replace Jeff Sessions the burden will be on the president to pick somebody highly qualified, give mueller the space he needs to
presidency. we, as citizens and the system itself has to account for that, that he is going to engage and use the very institutions against the system itself in order for him to win this office. he did it before. before he was convicted on 34 counts, we know the track record. the ruthless and effective part for me is important. i am concerned that the ruthless part is what got everyone nervous. we do not know what that means. what it looks like and feels like to me is the accountability piece politically. the judicial system has helped him accountable. had we politically hold him accountable? i don t know the answer to this but i was listening carefully to abided yesterday. joe biden got up, president of the united states and talked about this. what he talked about is the
the liberal media and democrats relishing in the top political opponent being found guilty. it s a majestic day and we are rightly saying the system worked like clockwork. this is a moment of sort of democratic reset small multi-democratic reset is country. his whole dream was to be respected in manhattan and it was in manhattan where he was wrought low. i think there s something interesting and poetic about that. it was very satisfying to finally see this guy get some comeuppance. i was at costco buying 10 boxes of keurig coffee and my watch started to buzz and i got so excited i started leaking a little bit. i feel like america won. i felt like new york won. i felt like the manhattan das office won. i felt like i won. the law for lovers also wasting no time in hyping the new talking point about the former president. he s now a convicted felon. people have to say to themselves am i going to vote
quite graphically that this thing was a farce. trace: yeah. thank you david leroy, we appreciate your time. meantime mainstream media s wall-to-wall coverage culminating in what became a celebration of sorts after the guilty verdicts were red. matt finn is live with that part of the story. good evening. reporter: trace, so members of the media have not been able to contain their excitement over former president trump s conviction and here are some of the ladies of the view. i was at costco buying, you know, ten boxes of coffee. my watch started to buzz and i got so excited i started leaking a little bit. i felt like america won. i felt like new york won. i felt like the manhattan das office won. i felt like i won. trace: here s trump opponent adam schiff and host of morning show on msnbc. trump and his maga followers are digging in, trying to tear
in u.s. history of a former president to be held accountable for the things that i have been talking about for six years. remember, the das case did not start when i was released from otis phil, it started while i was in otis phil. three times, three times the manhattan da team came to visit me there. that is where began. that s what really began. that is where the saga began. prior to the start of the trial, you were very careful, i think, not to discuss anything that the manhattan das office discussed with you. you wanted to protect the integrity of the trial. now that the verdict has come down and that these of the trial is over and we move on to sentencing. initial conversation that you had with the manhattan da office when you found out they were going to bring this case forward, what was that