job you were going to recuse yourself, you should have told me before i gave you the job. that s right. and, you know, there is a corner of what trump says that makes a certain amount of sense. what really led sessions to recuse himself is that convoluted and false answer he gave which the president criticized him. to al frank from minnesota. he which he denied meeting any russians. which put sessions under the russia investigation, which meant he did have to recuse himself. there s no doubt that sessions made the right choice, the ethical choice in recusing himself. but that led to the mueller investigation, which is plaguing donald trump. he was on the campaign. he was a surrogate for donald trump. so even had that not happened, he probably still should have recused himself from this case. i think jeff sessions in that
to recuse yourself and you knew all along that you couldn t deal with russia, tell me before i made you attorney general. he thinks that jeff sessions works for him. exactly. i agree with you. but i m telling you i m channelling the president here as hard as that is, but that s his point of view. that s right. e he thinks everybody works for him. the presidency, the white house is about him. he doesn t care about health care he can have a nice lunch and elbow some people in the ribs he doesn t care about the agenda that jeff sessions is implementing as the head of the department of justice, he views him as his personal lawyer and he s not doing his job. he doesn t see the mueller investigation as an independent investigation. he wants mueller to know he retains the right to get rid of him if he cross it is line. say what you will about donald trump you know what s on his mind. he doesn t sugar coat it. it s clear. he approaches its like a job interview. if you knew before you
presidential meeting with vladimir putin they made no effort to actually disclose. first we have breaking news on the three participants on the other undisclosed meeting. the one at trump tower last year billed as an attempt to get dirt on hillary clinton. we learned that donald trump jr., paul manafort, and jirk have dates to testify on capitol hill. they ve been called before the senate judiciary committee that s been scheduled on wednesday however paul manafort s spokesperson has confirmed he s been invited. we haven t heard from donald trump jr. s representatives. but senators expect both men to appear. the testimony by donald trump jr. as well as paul manafort that will be in public. it will be in public. if they both appear as requested it will be the first time senators will be able to drill
least twice now. to disclose meetings with the russian ambassador, the chairman of the bank and the june 2016 meeting. so a lot of questions there, but that one while it s definite it will playout behind closed doors when jared kushner goes before the senate intelligence committee. thanks for that. the white house gave another one of their no cameras allowed press briefings today. they used some of it to talk about the president s previously revealed meeting with vladimir putin. it seems silly, said sarah huckabee-sanders, that we would disclose a dinner that he was already participating in. keep in mind the dinner isn t the issue, that was known. the meeting was not and the white house made it no effort to make it known. it s one in a string of previously unknown contacts big and small and people in donald trump s circle and russias. the undisclosed meeting with
yet at what is on the president s mind, the russian probe the man in charnl of it had to recuse himself. the president spoke to the new york times. the headline only hints at how much news he made. he expresses anger with comey and sessions and mueller. this interview is something. i want to start with what he told you about attorney general sessions. what did he say? he was clearly frustrated with jeff sessions he said that he would not have appointed him if he had known that he would recuse himself from anything russia related. he would have appointed somebody else. we know that donald trump has been angry with jeff sessions for quite some time, but it was a pretty remarkable statement for him to make on the record, for him to vent his ooire that y and make clear that he considers what jeff sessions did, which was a recusal because he was concerned about a conflict to be