Bottom line that was their goal heading into tonight, to live to fight inll of these in november. Brian, well accepted it over to you. Our thanks to steve kornacki. We ask only that you not stray from the big board. We will come back with results as they come in throughout the broadcast. Checking in on other news, day 502 this was of the trump administration. And President Trump wasted no time again today lashing out at his own Attorney General of his recusal from the Russia Investigation. President trump wrote on twitter, the russian witchhunt hoax continues all because Jeff Sessions didnt tell me he was going to recuse himself. I would have quickly picked someone else. So much time and money wasted. So many lives ruined. And sessions knew better than most that there was no
report would be positive, as we learned the next morning. But when aide mentioned sessions, trump abruptly ended the conversation and unmuted the television in his office, dismissing the staffer to resume watching
when he was elected president, clinton offered him the job of attorney general. he wanted him in the cabinet. vernon said i can be more valuable to you as your first friend. jordan was right. in any time he needed help he called him and he was there. involved in every major personnel decision. policy decisions. and most importantly clintons major source of relaxation. on the golf course, in meals. in the residence. outside. he was his closest companion. one ocht reasons why he relied on jordan so much he just had the best judgment and best political intelligence of anyone around him. clinton was impeached later over lying about the affair and vernon became a witness in that. he could have cut and run. he didn t. he stood by his best friend and the testimony he delivered before the grand jury helped
and two years later, he was taking the oath of office as arkansas governor in the beginning of 1983. that s a book title if i ever heard one. i hope you have grits down there. and then that leads to all this. that s not all that vernon jordan did. he was also a confidant when it came to clinton s biggest scandal monica lewinsky, right? what s interesting is he was, i would say, as pivotal to clinton s presidency as any chief of staff or senior aid. when he was elected president, clinton offered him the job of attorney general. he really wanted him in his cabinet. but vernon said straight out, i could be more valuable to you as your first friend. and jordan was right. any time clinton needed help, he would say call vernon and vernon was there. he was involved in every major personnel decision, most policy decisions and perhaps most importantly clinton s major course of relaxation, whether it was on the golf course, in meals
memo to the department earlier this year, expressing deep concerns to deputy attorney general rod rosenstein about mueller s inquiry into alleged obstruction of justice by the president. despite this development, our own catherine herridge reports that rosenstein is still not expected to appear before house lawmakers this session. joining is never a reaction, author of the terrific book, te russian hoax, fox news legal analyst gregg jarrett, along with attorney david davie and republican congressman bob goodlatte. gregg, i will go to first on this memo. you ve read it, i read it, it is a manifesto on how ridiculous it is to charge the president or even think about charging the president for obstruction of justice on what is essentially a personnel decision in the firing of jim comey. i find it incredible that democrats aren t celebrating this memo. your opinion? this is the document, a meticulously, well reasoned analysis of the law of
oversaw and permitted this investigation into russian interference in our country, in our elections, are all now gone and by the way also as you know were overseeing the investigation to hillary clinton. if you re going to pull back a little and think about the facts here, it s undoubted that the investigations of these two people, hillary clinton and donald trump, probably helped donald trump more in the beginning than they do now. and yet here he is calling witch-hunt and going after these people and inserting himself into a personnel decision, and it is something that gives you a bit a foreboding. meanwhile, a federal court, in washington, a fourth federal judge reject add challenge to robert mueller s appointment as special counsel. the judge was appointed to the bench by president trump last year. the move to dismiss came from a russian firm charged with conspiracy to defraud the u.s. arguing an independent counsel violated the constitutions appointment clause appointeding an un