house wave all of its privileges and encourage people to testify, which is actually what richard nixon did for the senate. it s what ronald regan did. it would allow a congress inclined to investigate to get somewhere. and he was white house councils, not special counsel. i want to ask you this, robert. donald trump s friend, the president s friend suggested that mueller has a conflict of interest. he says it s unethical mueller and trump had a private conversation potentially about the russia investigation because the next day he became the man leading the investigation. does he have a point there? i think that s a bit far fetched in terms of ultimately assuming a position within the justice department as special counsel but with obviously a very different mission than would be the case if he were the fbi director.
he now has the mission of healing the divide in the republican party before trying to take on raffle. so cory stewart was the trump person, sort of ran in trump s image gillespie did not? ed gillespie was distancing himself a bit from trump, not doing the full trump embrace, taking more of the establishment lane and it gave him a bit of a scare tonight perhaps. he does emerge with the victory and it s about trying to piece together the factions of the republican party to have a unified party going into the genroom election. we will follow. thank you so much. let s talk about the attorney general jeff sessions today now. infuriating democrats by leaving many of their questions unanswered. john barrett, former white water independent counsel robert ray and cnn legal analyst who is a
testimony he said he did not recall any kind of meeting, which is standard fare. so what he was trying to do is say this is all wrong about me. and to the notion that james comey said well, wait a minute, if i was fired because of russia, what did attorney general sessions have to do with it because he recused himself on the russia investigation. sessions also tried in his own way to clear that up. pointing to the rod rosenstein memo and saying this was about the way he behaved during the campaign. so, he tried to sweep everything aside and really clear his name here. there is a lot of nonrecalling, not recalling as i watched today. so david, sessions today on firing james comey. watch this. on may 19th, mr. rosenstein, in a statement to the house of representatives, essentially told them that he learned on may 8th that president trump intended to remove director comey.
wackau mole where you re uncomfortable that one investigator is doing his job, so you fire him and then ask for another. who is the right one? is this goldy locks? one is too hard and the other is too cold? you know, this is not the way the system is supposed to work and i think it s got to be up to congress in the judiciary committees of both house and senate to make things a little clearer and perhaps to the white house. you worked on the iran contrainvestigation. you say president trump should take a cue from how president regan handled that. what does he need do? at the immediate breaking of iran contra was point an executive commission to air out everything that happened. it really was also an effort to fill in his memory, which was imperfect but that tower
former watergate special prosecut prosecutor i am really exstatic. so i m going to start with you. you were all uniquely involved. you re the former watergate special prosecutor. do you see similarities in what happened back then and play out in washington d.c.? everything is compressed in time now . this is such an early stage in the investigation and yet there s such chaos with one investigator being fired and a casual discussion about whether mr. trump intends to fire special counsel, mueller. it boggles the mind. this is not a casual game of