chuck grassley, judiciary committee chairman tweeted tonight, we have it and we ll put it up on the screen. in kind of twitter shorthand. everybody in d.c. should be warned that the agenda for the judiciary committee is set for the rest of 2017. judges first, no punctuation, sub cabinet second/ag? no way. that is being taken as the senators way of saying don t you dare touch jeff sessions. exactly right. there s a certain senate camaraderie, let s not forget jeff sessions was a senator two decades before he went over to donald trump s cabinet. they are certainly protective of him there. this is more than just about politics. as michael was saying, this is about legality, too. and the only one who seems confused here about whether or not it was proper for sessions to recuse himself is donald trump. donald trump s closest supporters, rudy giuliani among them, have said yes, it
of power. he s going to look at everything in trump world. i think there s real deep concerns at the white house about that. to mr. peters, i used to know just two things about recess appointments and fact check me here to see if they re still true. number one, it s good still the next congress comes into town and number two, we haven t had many full-on recesses in the modern era last couple of years. there s a way to keep the senate minimally in session, maybe one or two members present. that way, most of the senate s on summer break. but this can t happen. is that correct? that s correct from my understanding of the senate rules, brian. i think what we ve never seen before and what kind of leaves an open question as to how this might unfold is you ve never had a republican president and a republican congress together at such a tumultuous time where there is the question of the possibility of a recess appointment. now, this assumes that republicans would somehow try to get in the
people as soon as i am confirmed and finding out whether i have to. at that point it, the president koez have easily withdrawn his nomination. so he was warned. and he shouldn t be complaining about what he should have told me. he did tell him. jeremy, about today s announcement, either the stage craft or the substance about transgender service in the military. i heard a democratic u.s. senator say this evening, what if it turns out that our expert at nsa, the person, go to person we have at nsa who by the way, equates and compares their service to this country with as much value to the country as frontline infantriry, what it furnace out that desk officer is transgender? do we really expect them to put down their computer mouse, take off their i.d. card and that s the last we should see of them? it s a horrible precedent. we have intelligence officers, military professionals, diplomatic professionals at this hour in some very austere corners of the globe risking their lives for ou
as michael was saying, this is about legality, too. and the only one who seems confused here about whether or not it was proper for sessions to recuse himself is donald trump. donald trump s closest supporters, rudy giuliani among them, have said yes, it absolutely was the right thing for sessions to recuse himself from an investigation that he was going to be a subject of. so if trump were to fire him, this would not only create, you know, a big problem with trump voters who saw sessions as kind of the conscience of this administration, the conservative conscience of this administration but also cause a huge problem on capitol hill and potentially open the floodgates for republicans to start breaking with the president in a way they have so far been very reluctant to do, brian. andrea. the irony here is of all the cabinet members so far, perhaps also including the epa. he s been getting the job done. the way donald trump wants him to get it done.
case doesn t really care what passes. he has shown no you know, favoritism for one plan or another. he just wants to win. he just wants to put something in the win column and call it a success without really thinking about how it will impact people. and meanwhile, we re having one measure after another with predictions that millions of people will lose health coverage and premiums will still go up. but meanwhile, have you people like john mccain like a group of governors today bipartisan governors including charlie baker from massachusetts where my paper is, calling for people to say look, enough. let s come together. let s nick skinny repeal and all these other plans. come together. use regular order. democrats and republicans, figure out a way to stabilize the markets. that s the problem. we want to stop insurers from leaving the markets. it seems like the only real solution is the one that s politically impossible right now. and in 30 seconds or less