he was the first cap nbinet appt of of president-elect donald trump s. now, he could be the first attorney general to be fired by a president. presidents before asked their attorney general to resign. some quit on their own. gonzalez in 2007. firing is different. at one point in our history, it wasn t legal. nobody is making that argument now. president trump seems to want to take advantage. his legal team has apparently talked him out of it. i m told he agreed several months ago not to take any action on sessions until after the special counsel investigation is over. if and when after that the president does sack sessions, he might not get as much pushback as you might think from republicans on capitol hill. even richard shelby, also from alabama, who was by sessions side in the senate for two decades, is telling the washington post, nothing lasts forever. nbc s hans nichols is at the white house. hans, i know you had a chance to
would produce a lot of trouble here. we should add another element, there is a difference between anna s point, that there are policy considerations here around bigness or power, and politics. hours after the president called out google, facebook, and twitter, his campaign put them into a fundraising pitch, saying conservative voices are being suppressed. republicans have used it as a rallying cry ahead of the election. that has tech companies unhappy. thanks for coming on set. appreciate you making the trek down to the studio. we want to pause and turn to breaking news that s coming out. yes, it involves a presidential tweet, but it also involves presidential personnel. it has been widely expected that white house counsel don mcgahn would leave the white house in the fall. that is according to multiple sources outside of the white house based on our reporting. the ultimate source is confirming this. donald trump is tweeting, yes, the counsel will be leaving his position in the fal
got masmaller amounts. if you add up all the votes in the democratic primary, you re looking at somewhere around 1.5 million votes in the florida democratic primary. by comparison, the last time they had a primary, statewide office in florida, 2014, what were you looking at? you were looking at about 830,000. that s the energy. when you talk about a candidate who appeals to the passions, who gets the energy going, look what it does to turnout. democrats come out of that and say, that s one thing. maybe not the swing voters necessarily, thinking of with gillum, but you are thinking of the energy. i have to show the flip side in the republican race. again, the passions of the base, the trump kacandidate, desantis wins. add the votes. what does it come to? right now, it is more than 1.6 million on the republican side. what was it four years ago when they had a primary? about 950,000. the same story in both parties.
talk with kellyanne conway about that this morning. i spoke with rudy giuliani today, who says within the last couple minutes, he believes at this point, the agreement that the president made with his legal team still stands. that the president says he won t take action on sessions. if he does, it ll be after the mueller investigation is over. reporter: it gives sessions a bit of a lease on life, but it is clear he is remaining in limbo. when i asked kellyanne conway this morning whether or not he had the support, sessions had the support, the confidence of president donald trump, she refused to answer. listen to how she thought jeff sessions is doing. how we feeling about mr. sessions this morning? oh, he s great. i talked to the attorney general yesterday. he s working hard on ms-13 gangs, the opioid crisis, immigration. they have this great initiative you probably haven t read about or covered at least. reporter: does that mean he still has the president s confidence? he s t
that staying away from making this a referendum on trump for gillum is going to be a winning strategy, in a state you know very well? i don t think he ll be able to stay away from it. hallie, he s already hit back at the president for tweeting at him this morning, just in the last hour. gillum basically said, bring it on, mr. president, if you want to have this conversation. i ve spoken to officials on both sides of the aisle overnight, late into the night last night and this morning. both sides are optimistic. democrats, they actually have a candidate now that can electrify this race. that can nationalize this race in the way that republicans have been able to do with ron desantis and donald trump. in a way that now you might see folks like the obamas and bernie sanders and others come into florida. t this will be a showdown. republicans on the other hand are saying, we have our guy. donald trump s guy. yup. to be honest, in florida politics, tallahassee is a relatively small to