you say that now. to me that s the question. he is on twitter instructing jeff sessions to open a criminal case against hillary clinton. and he s telling jeff spegss even though he took ethical path to recuse himself, that he shouldn t have done that. not only does he instruct the attorney general on what to do ethically, which is unethical, on who to prosecute, and then he stroukts who should be fired and not fired. all of those things are not the job of the united states. and there will be pushback within the congress. i think if he takes ultimate step of firing sessions, you re going to see a lot of people in congress and a lot of people on the other side being the conservative republicans, really starting to turn against him. it would be the archibald cox
stroukts who should be fired and not fired. all of those things are not the job of the united states. and there will be pushback within the congress. i think if he takes ultimate step of firing sessions, you re going to see a lot of people in congress and a lot of people on the other side being the conservative republicans, really starting to turn against him. it would be the archibald cox sxhoemt the delano roosevelt moment when he tried to pack the supreme court. there are certain elements of fairness that people will not put up with. that s a great example. you can put in 40 people if you can confirm them. and this goes to the point about pressure. he s doing it by his play book which is pressure. to get people to knuckle under. to dominate and insult. you have jeff sessions announcing that he will announce
according to politico, it threateneded his border wall. they report that republicans wanted trump to stealth issue since the disagreement was holding up the republican budget that included funding for his wall. that s the one that he said hundreds of times mexico would pay for. president trump went far than he was being asked for, to ban transgender people from the military. one senior house republican aide telling politico, this is like someone told the white house to light a candle on the table and the white house set the whole table on fire. joining me now, the political reporter covering congress who co-authored the snap decision to ban transgender troops. my understanding, there s a fight in the budget bill about whether the pentagon will pay for gender reassignment surgery
he seals to be sending a signal. he appears to want jeff sessions out of there. he could fire him. he appears to want mueller done. at a certain point, congress will be the check. that s right. i think you re seeing something interesting. why out of nowhere does the president fire jim comey? he does that because he thinks he can. he can get away with it politically. he got away with it politically. but look where we are today. just this morning, the president out of nowhere, without telling the pentagon, decides he s changing policy for 15,000 transgender armed service members. joni ernst, john mccain, all coming out saying that s not okay. the republicans here are in a different place than they were four months ago. and i think that the president worries, is at least told to worry, if he fires jeff sessions, he might not get another attorney general. confirmed by the senate. this will really push the republicans over the edge on
table on fire. joining me now, the political reporter covering congress who co-authored the snap decision to ban transgender troops. my understanding, there s a fight in the budget bill about whether the pentagon will pay for gender reassignment surgery which is a considerably narrower issue than whether transgender individuals can serve at all. they asked the president to do something and out of the blue, he just announce this is entire ban. not quite out of the blue. they want to pass this bill this week. and they re having trouble getting it through. basically, house republicans have the suspending package that s supposed to be a menning bill for trump. it includes money for the wall, a pentagon close-up, money for veterans. but there are a bunch of republicans who threaten to derail it unless they inserted a provision banned the pentagon from using medical insurances that pay important transgender health care services such as sex