to go out and commit additional crimes while you re under indictment. they recommend against that. we ve heard on this network all night from experienced attorneys who say paul manafort has good loiawyers, expensive lawyers, who have said to him there s a bunch of things you re not going to do. this is one of them. to have done this, to have increased his legal peril, it s a huge development and also i ll bom one of my co-panelists today on nicolle s show, who noted maybe nicolle, it does sort of betray the notion this is not a man who is convinced he s going to get a pardon. because if you re convinced you re going to get a pardon, why engage in witness tampering. ? yeah, that s a serious offense. michael, other than the sheer almost daily as we ve noted release of steam on the sessions issue, is there any case to be made by anyone around this president that this continued attack on his a.g. while they re
crimes while you re under indictment they recommend against that. we ve heard on this network all night from experienced attorneys who say paul manafort has good lawyers, expensive lawyers, who have said to him there are a bunch of things you re not going to do. this is one of them. and to have done this, to have increased his legal peril, giving robert mueller even more of an upper hand than he already has in terms of leverage to try to get manafort to flip on donald trump.it a huge devepmenn i ll borrow from one of my co-panelists today on nicolle s show, who noted maybe nicolle, it does sort of betray the notion this is not a man who is convinced he s going to get a pardon. to go to your third topic. because if you re convinced you re going to get a pardon, why engage in witness tampering? yeah, that s a serious offense. michael, other than the sheer almost dailys we ve noted release of steam on the sessions issue, is there any case to be made by anyone around this preside
the white house. let me share with you this quote from sally yates, an op-ed that was in today s new york times, former attorney general issued this new warning. the president is attempting to dismantle the rule of law, destroy the time honored independence of the justice department and undermine the career of men and women who are devoted to seeking justice day in and day out regardless of which political party is in power. if we are not careful, when we wake up from the trump presidency, our justice system may be broken beyond recognition. now, again, check the source. this is a woman who the president fired, so obviously she s critical. but we ve also seen a number of republican lawmakers this week openly critical. it was lindsey graham saying the bit about there will be holy hell if sessions is fired in that white house. is this a trend of more and more people, both left, right, and center standing up to the white house? i do. i think the sessions issue has inspired sort of
senators, putting them on notice on twitter, having ryan zinke come out and go to them, why not ute the bully pulpit to advocate for a policy, for a solution giving more americans health care if they concede the affordable care act is irrevocably broken? and they don t believe the president will ever have their back. ever. he turned around on the house republicans and called their bill mean. in didn t go over with with house republicans on senate republicans. they believe this is a president who has loyalty to one person. himself. and not to them. so i don t think the threats help. i don t think the fact they believe he s not loyal to them and will turn on them and threaten them, and will hurt them, helps either. and i don t think the sessions issue helps at all. there s been no consistent coherent leadership from the president. happen it existed for vice president mike pence? yes, tom price, health and human services secretary, sure.
some people say the president, charles, is a master manipulator of the media, and even on this sessions issue, as he continues to tweet, and everybody is trying to read between the lines, what exactly is egg doing, sessions is not leaving, and yet, democrats who called him a racist, and said that they weren t going to vote for him, now are stepping up for sessions. listen to a couple of examples. the wrong person for this job, we need someone one questioned strength, values and integrity. jeff sessions stuck his neck out for this president. the only, the first senator to endorse him, and now look what the president is doing to him, chopping his head off. because of his relationship with mr. trump and his history, i m just not sure he would give the independent advice that this president desperately needs. when you take the oath in this country, your oath is to the constitution.