it s not that many. i m going to add some make it harder for you if you want. jonathan lemire. that s nice and short. whouts reporter. gene robinson and former deputy assistant attorney harold levitt. i m starting with you, it s your reporting. the first thing i thought was everyone talks about how much peril the comey firing could present to the president in the obstruction inquiry. it strikes me after reading your story it s his abuse of jeff sessions, his anger after his rekudsal and iz efforts to unrecuse himself that could pose the most danger to the president. this sort of reporting was borne out of the 49 questions because if you look at them, so many of them are dedicated to sessions in things beyond comey. you sort of look at other matters or other things. and if you look at the questions, there s one about did the president try and get sessions to reverse himself on the recusal decision. and we knew that the recusal decision was something of interest to mueller, but whe
would meet with the ethics officials at the department to determine whether recusal was appropriate, the day after that, we had my first meeting. we had a series of meetings and since i realized that there s a possibility i would need to recuse myself at the first meeting, i took i received no information whatsoever from that investigation, never met with investigators, didn t even know who the lawyers were officially working the case. and reviewed no documents relating to it. i had a little brief from the ethics official the nature of the case because you need to know something about the case before you can make an official recusal decision. when i recused myself, we sent an e-mail out to all the key
told this committee that i would meet with the ethics officials at the department to determine whether recusal was appropriate, the day after that we had my first meeting and we had a series of meetings, and since i realized that there is a possibility i would need to recuse myself at the first meeting, i took i received no information whatsoever from that investigation, never met with investigators, didn t even know who the lawyers were officially working the case, and reviewed no documents relating to it. i had a little brief from the ethics officials, the nature of the case, because you need to know something about the case before you can make an official recusal decision. when i recused myself, we sent an e-mail out to all the key people in the department of
needs advisers like from session like mr. sessions to say when one of his impulses would be a mistake. what s your prediction on the attorney general s future? oh, i think he ll stay. i have personally very high regard for the attorney general. i think he s a man of honor. and i think the people in the senate know that as well. it s kind of disappointing to hear him criticized. i didn t like to see president criticize him, because i think he was doing the right thing and following the law which is what you want when he made his recusal decision. the president had an outburst, and i think he s frustrated with the whole russia investigation, and he traces it back to sessions recusing himself which led to an independent counsel. or a special counsel. sorry. but i think that senator sessions, it seems like, is in good shape now and will go forward enforcing the law and calling balls and strikes apolitically, as he should. eric: robert driscoll, thank you for joining us on saturday afte
not to speak about it. bret: that was a nonanswer and abc is reporting that tensions are so high between the ag and the president that he threatened to resign. this is an extraordinary moment. jeff sessions, number one loyal person to trump. for senator to endorse him, the keeper of the flame on immigration, law enforcement. donald trump has never forgiven jeff sessions for recusing himself from the russian investigation which begat several steps down the line bob mueller and the special counselor. that was an extraordinary moment where sean spicer couldn t say that the president of the united states has confidence in his own attorney general. bret: there was someone else, jim comey. we know what happened after that. losing sessions is not smart. i know he didn t like the recusal decision. i happen to agree with him. i don t think you want to have an attorney general who whose first impulse is, i ve got to