to say it? if you could do it all along, why do you have to put in a mem memo? congressman jordan, first of all, because of general sessions recusal from the special counsel s investigation, i was also recused from that investigation. so i was not i m not asking that. i m asking, you said you were fully briefed you were asking you why at the time rod rosenstein i m asking you why two and half months after the broadest order you can have, why did rod rosenstein say, hey, you can do this all along, but i m putting in a memo question can i tell you what really troubles me, mr. whitaker? right after that statement, the following allegations at the time of your appointment and are within the scope of the order. but after that, you know what happens? everything is redacted. look at this. the whole darn thing. so if you could do it all along, i do have to send a memo to him, two and half months later, and then he reject everything after
contemporaries. if so he didn t just come to this conclusion i m going to recuse. and if i rememberectly e were me replinsho looked upon that as the responsible thing to do at the time given a list of things that you just enumerated. rudy giuliani, the president s attorney has said there is no way that this president could be committing obstruction of justice. we will see how it plays out. katie: moving along now coming to questions over the drafting of the trump tower mem memo, donald trump jr. s meeting with a russian lawyer and others. now rudy gl giuliani saying thy did not live in a contradicted by her statement the president did in fact dictate that memo. stick with using 70 could have made a mistake? a lot of mistakes. why is it always at somebody if you think jay sekulow lied? mae he just gotong like
this mama that you are trying to release now has classified information, i think you ll agree that it does, the intelligence agencies he say that it says, why is there not also hurting american national security and subverting the rule of law? we did something that the republicans weren t willing to do.. we ask the department of justice to review it. if there s anything in there that would hurt the rule of law or national security, we want unredacted. it seems odd that the president now wants to listen to the fbi when he was willing to release the memo before even hearing from them or looking at the mem memo. tucker: weight.ha as a great respecter of the fbi, that is the case you ve made for months, they protect your life as you sleep, how dare you question her judgment. are youul questioning your judgment?t wouldn t you want the fbi to hold that memo if they believe it imperils national security? we do. we are working to make any reductions necessary. the way the president has f
leak? i agree with ari that republicans need to be about governing. i was with the president today and he s dealing with a host of issues, not the least of which is north korea and national security issues and domestic issues. the memo leak is problematic and this was a guy who said under oath today that when pressed on why he did not report this, pressed on why he didn t, he said i wasn t strong enough. i think what ari says sets up the problem. james comey had one goal with getting the memo released. the special counsel let him release it but what did he say the goal was? i thought if i released the mem memo, the special counsel would be appointed. and it did. sean: amazing analysis, both of you. thank you. we appreciate it. up next, on this breaking news the addition of hannity. there have been many, many
leak? i agree with ari that republicans need to be about governing. i was with the president today and he s dealing with a host of issues, not the least of which is north korea and national security issues and domestic issues. the memo leak is problematic and this was a guy who said under oath today that when pressed on why he did not report this, pressed on why he didn t, he said i wasn t strong enough. i think what ari says sets up the problem. james comey had one goal with getting the memo released. the special counsel let him release it but what did he say the goal was? i thought if i released the mem memo, the special counsel would be appointed. and it did. sean: amazing analysis, both of you. thank you. we appreciate it. up next, on this breaking news the addition of hannity. there have been many, many