second. national security is perhaps the most important financial or responsibility a president has. and i think the president made the right decision to ask for his resignation. can you not have a national security adviser misleading the vice president and others. so i think the predent was right to ask for his resignation and i believe it was theight thing to do. let s speak about russia for a second. i ve always been a russia skeptic and hawk. new administrations these days try to get better relations with russia. the bush tried to get better relations with russia. the clinton administration or hillary clinton and the obama administration did the reset. so i understand it s reasonable and rational to try and improve relations with russia, that s what new administrations inevitably do but i ll leave it up to the administration to describe the circumstances surrounding what brought it to this point. i think the key is this, that as soon as this person lost the president s trust, the
president trump to stay on. she was the deputy attorney general since 2013 under obama and she stayed on as acting attorney general for a range of duties, including signing foreign wiretaps which before today was not a problem in her role. she will become her role in history will be different than it otherwise would have been before tonight. this is a very big deal. this is a very unusual occurrence. eric being thank y eric, thank you for your time. thank you. again, the acting attorney general of the united states, sally yates, has just been fir by the predent of the united states. she put out a statement this evening saying that she was not convinced that the president s
sign some kind of executive order launching his voter fraud investigation at the white house today. that signing was abruptly delayed without an explanation late this afternoon. adds for rare the predent of the united states got the investigation he s using to start a white house investigation, we got a sense from the new york times which reported that when he met with congressional leaders according to witnesses, trump said he was told a story by the very famous golfer bernhard langer who he described as a friend. according to the president, langer, a german national, was standing in a line at a polling place near his home in florida when an official informed him he would not be able to vote. ahead of and behind mr. langer were voters who did not look adds if they should be allowed to vote, mr. trump said, according to congressional staff members but they were nonetheless permitted to cast provisional ballots. witnesses said the president threw out the names of latin american countr
let s say some federal district court judge finds in your favorite, what would it mean for an article three judge to say, yes, the predent of the united states is in violation of the conition, mike, what is the remedy? has anyone done that before? has a federal cot declared a president in violation of the constitution? chris, we ve had we have a long and very distinguished history in the united states of the courts standing up to executive branch officers, including the president, when they act out of line. in the bush administration there was a tremendous amount of litigation against the executive branch under the president s direction relating to guantanamo, to holding on to prisoners. this is just as unconstitution am. there s a direct prohibition on what president trump is do in. and it is true that no court has ever directly ruled on an emoluments case. they haven t had to because no president dared to do anything like this in the history of our country. so if you were i
and the last sunday of the obama presidency. even before john lewis explosive statements denying donald trump s legitimacy as predent, monday president-elect trump in effect challenged decades-old laws of nepotism by hiring jared kushner as a senior adviser tuesday. a dossier of mr. trump s ties to russia are published by the online site buzz feed. wednesday he calls a bizarre news conference where he called cnn fake news for reporting the existence of that dossier. thursday the justice department s inspector general of how fbi director james comey handled the hillary clinton investigation and on friday, an icon of the civil rights movement says he doesn t think president-elect trump is a legitimate president. we ll begin with part one of my interview with lewis and his comments about donald trump.