Let him finish excuse me a minute. The president , of course, was known to be upset about the recusal in the first place. But look, this is on the front side of all the litany of things you heard about. At the same time, as i said, it went way beyond from the Attorney Generals perspective, way beyond wrong the recusal called for under the regulation thats just wrong. That is wrong. That is not the reading of the regulation. Read it. And the ethics rules for lawyers, rule 1. 7 for lawyers, conflicts of interest. He cannot investigate a campaign in which he was a material part of that campaign. He cannot do it under the ethics rules for lawyers or under the ethics regulations. Open and shut. He could not participate there are three types of investigations that investigation the department of justice. There are three types of ken, what are you saying . There are three types of investigations at the department of justice. Criminal and civil are what people think of most, of course. The fir
he was going to him and saying, don t get out of it. and you just heard two very distinguished lawyers who had a completely different read of this. i m not a lawyer. but i work for a law firm. and i can tell you if you get two in the elevator, you ll have two opinions. and that s what happens. some people believe that he had to recuse himself. remember it was because he wanted to protect him at all costs. not for the investigation the article said to hold out as long as you could. in terms of sessions meeting with russians, i was on the military committee, foreign affairs committee. we met with foreign policy all the time, foreign heads of state, quite often and ambassadors. claire mccaskill said i never met with one, and find out two, three months earlier she had tweet go tweeted about meetin with the russian ambassador. i didn t say there was anything wrong with meeting with russians. he mentioned the hearing all i said is it s relevant to the investigation. let s
and his reluctance to cross the president has been a frustration not just to critics of donald trump but sol republicme republ well. the best jokes always have a grain of truth. self-defacing humor he has a create personality and great comic timing. he nailed those. can i see people saying paul ryan, you should bristle at the nature of the presidency and how dare you joke about the fact that you pretend to ignore the tweets which he probably does. but it s the al smith dinner. it s a roast of yourself and everybody else. so, take it with a grain of salt and be light harted. we could all use some humor. but, i was saying bring that every day. for instance, if he s asked about the tweet go, look, guys, what do you want me to say? kind of be a little honest without kind of denigrating the
could i do something that stupid some day? i mean, i tweet all the time. and i know a majority of viewers think everything i tweet is stupid. but i mean, i just don t understand how you can even let that tweet go. the person who sent it, it was just abhorrent, i don t know where it comes from. and they have had many of these problems here at msnbc but it is beyond msnbc. we decided it is not the left. but the knee jerk instinct to accuse conservatives of racism. they saw this ad, and they said oh, the conservatives will hate it because it is a black man and a white woman together in a family. look, i think there are people on both sides who do that. i mean, you know real extreme
thing. and i sometimes think well gosh, could i do something that stupid some day? i mean, i tweet all the time. and i know a majority of viewers think everything i tweet is stupid. but i mean, i just don t understand how you can even let that tweet go. the person who sent it, it was just abhorrent, i don t know where it comes from. and they have had many of these problems here at msnbc but it is beyond msnbc. we decided it is not the left. but the knee jerk instinct to accuse conservatives of racism. they saw this ad, and they said oh, the conservatives will hate it because it is a black man and a white woman together in a family. look, i think there are people on both sides who do that. i mean, you know real extreme