dreamed about firing the special counsel, mueller would prosecute him for obstruction of justice. sean: let me go to david, i agree, this is juvenile. the idea that maybe the president thought, okay, i have a lot of thoughts about some people. a lot of which are meaningless if they do not follow any action whatsoever. the questions are problematic on a number of levels, what they make here slim and clear is a following that we have said over and over and over again. if there is one agenda here. that is to get the president before mr. mueller enabled to charge him with extraction of justice or perjury. they are considering the mueller bill must really rethink that. to this is the wrong time, and besides the encroachment on article two, and it is certainly that, it never should be considered. mr. comey in hers demand his book tour made clear with these
there are a lot of things that raise a lot of questions about what was happening here. alana, the conversation with corker that the president had, do we know much about the nature of that? because obviously corker is the one who after charlottesville made some really kind of startling comments about, i don t want to paraphrase incorrectly, but raising questions about the president s stability, or his ability to think beyond himself. certainly. and previous to this point, it s important to remember, bob corker was considered for secretary of state. he was a close ally of the president. to answer your question, what we do know about the call is the president was frustrated about a particular portion of the russia sanctions bill that allows congress to block him from easing sanctions. now, this hasn t happened yet. now that trump has signed this bill, congress can take a vote and stop him from going easier on putin. it was this that he was frustrated about it. i sure appreciate it.
concerning the mueller bill. trump expressed unhappiness with the bill. and said he didn t want it to pass. tillas office after our story ran said the conversation touched on many issues and was cordial. of course, that cordial is in the eyes of the beholder. it is possible trump cordially informed the senator on the mueller bill. steve, when you hear about you spent a lot of time focusing on russian intelligence information. and this potential other avenue about try to have a meeting or getting information, what do you make of sort of this drip drip? anderson, it is very, very consistent with what i ve seen from russian operations over the years. if you re running an operation where you re trying to penetrate, trying to get into candidate trump s team, then what you re going to do is you re going to cast a wide net and reel it in and see what you get, whether it s a paul manafort, whether it s a flynn or this new person dearborn, you re going to evaluate each of
the mueller bill came up during the tillus/trump conversation. trump was unhappy with the legislation and didn t want it to pass. a senior republican aide said this, it seems he is just always focused on russia. tonight s report follow as new york times report about an august 9th phone call the president initiated with mcconnell, the senator s refusal to protect him from investigations of russia interference in the 2016 election, according to republicans briefed on the conversation. joining us now, adam, former deputy chief of staff through senator harry reid, currently at the senator for american progress action and also with us, ron klain, former chief counsel and chief of staff to attorney general janet reno.
dop oh louse has not responded to our request. it s unclear about the dearborn e-mail as well. thanks. joining me is steve hall, and alana shore. you have new reporting tonight regarding president trump reaching out to republican senators over russia related issues. who are we talking about here? what have you learned? well, we re talking about senate foreign relations chairman bob corker and senator tom tillas. this was on two separate russia related matters. first, corker, trump wanted to talk about the russia sanctions bill. this was the bill that the president had resisted and dragged his heels on signing. senator tillas got a call about the bill he s sponsoring to prevent the president from firing robert mueller. so, just because one of the senators, tillas has a bill to protect special counsel mueller. did that come up in a conversation? do we know anything about the nature of the conversation? it did. a source tells us that the conversation became tense