obstruction of justice aspect. you cannot have a witness lead and oversee an investigation. this is kind of recusal 101. i think the sessions decision to recuse himself was sort of a no-brainer. it was clearly the law and policy. and he was left with no choice, and i just want to point out in addition to the president s threats as trying to undermine mueller s investigation, he s also witness tampering. he s actually bullying a witness. he s bull ying jeff sessions and part of the reason may be that the president is trying to send a signal to jeff sessions if you step out of line in testifying against me in either of these twos pillars i am going to take you out. mr. crowley, while we ve all been talking about this, in your beat, there has been great progress along the topic of russia sanctions. kind of quietly moving through congress and now the administration is faced with a very interesting decision. bring us up to speed on
policy. and he was left with no choice, and i just want to point out in addition to the president s threats as trying to undermine mueller s investigation, he s also witness tampering. he s actually bullying a witness. he s bullying jeff sessions and part of the reason may be that the president is trying to send a signal to jeff sessions if you step out of line in testifying against me in either of these twos pillars i am going to take you out. mr. crowley, while we ve all been talking about this, in your beat, there has been great progress along the topic of russia sanctions. kind of quietly moving through congress and now the administration is faced with a very interesting decision. bring us up to speed on everything. yeah, brian. this hasn t gotten a lot of attention with everything else going on but this package of sanctions has moved through congress and they are sanctions on russia that the congress has imposed that among other things, tie donald trump s hands so that
he s bull ying jeff sessions and part of the reason may be that the president is trying to send a signal to jeff sessions if you step out of line in testifying against me in either of these twos pillars i am going to take you out. mr. crowley, while we ve all been talking about this, in your beat, there has been great progress along the topic of russia sanctions. kind of quietly moving through congress and now the administration is faced with a very interesting decision. bring us up to speed on everything. yeah, brian. this hasn t gotten a lot of attention with everything else going on but this package of sanctions has moved through congress and they are sanctions on russia that the congress has imposed that among other things, tie donald trump s hands so that if trump tries to undo any of the existing sanctions on russia, there s an automatic congressional review, and beak, it means that trump is not going to be able to undo any of the sanctions even the ones that