The latest news from around the world with hosts John Berman and Poppy Harlow. At one Point Gary Palmer was defending and blasting his colleagues who were criticizing sessions. But gary palmer told me he has his own problems with sessions. He specifically listed some of the things that the president was tweeting about this morning regarding Document Production to congress, Rod Rosenstein perhaps not the best person to be working in the Justice Department, according to him. He was unhappy with certain things that sessions was doing. I think its really interesting, the conversation is changing. I dont think thats a good sign for sessions. Its a matter of time, i think, before he goes. Ryan, help me understand with all of the things you listed, including the civil threats, why does it behoove him or does he think it does to have this spat with the Attorney General . I love being on with rachel. She brings fresh reporting. Isnt that interesting . We should have booked him. You know, i thin
so trump s whole game here is to push this guy out, force him to resign. sessions obviously realizes that. the important thing, not to be too idealistic, the important thing for our democracy is i think that satisfactiessions st trump and said, you know, my oath of office is essentially is more important here. he is siding with the law and with the justice department and its independence against the president. not an easy thing to do but the right thing do. it is stunning to me. we have to leave it there. perhaps democrats who railed against jeff sessions are hoping that he stays in his job right now. liberal hero, jeff sessions. what a headline. thank you. let s turn to david pecker, the second long time ali l allye president to turn on him.
that? are they going to say you have to know campaign finance laws, too? i think it s implied in all of this. the president can try and step back and insulate himself and if i m defending him i m going to say i m running for public office and i m letting the people around me advise me what i should and shouldn t be doing. it s implied in the fact that you are running you have at least a working knowledge of what this campaign finance law is. that s why these co-conspirators, whether unindicted, are the people who are now circling back around and the government s able to prove their case against everybody who is involved. the safe, steve. the associated press is reporting that there was a literal safe at the tabloid, at the national enquirer, that held documents documenting these negative stories about trump that were squashed. i don t know if you are the investigators. you are looking for that safe
this is how car buying was always meant to be. this is truecar. it may be the end of august, but it has not been a slow news week for president trump, michael cohen and paul manafort cohen s guilty plea, manafort s felony conviction and the president s fight with jeff s sessions. we re interested in what do big name republican donors think about this? let s talk to one of them. dan everhart is here. i met you years ago. you formed this company and really cashed in on the big oil boom in north dakota. you have been more and more
arabia. that was blocked. you can feel the pressure. it s the the conversation moved from are the saudis in violation of international law to, well, is the u.s. in violation of the international arms treaty? of course, all the partners to that treaty have to be able to say we believe these arms are not going to be used in ways in violation of humanitarian law and we are convinced of that. increasingly, given what s happening in yemen, it s growing difficult for the u.s. and the trump administration to be able to say that with conviction. because of this, $100 million arms contract $110 billion. it s extraordinary. thank you for the reporting. we ll be right back.