that person, his staff should have. the red flag should have been pushed and said, yes, we did have that meeting. let s clean this up with the senate confirmation hearings. and if you didn t clean it up then, why didn t you clean it up when the washington post came calling? why did we go hours and hours and hours where jeff sessions who was approached with the camera, i don t know anything about that, it s false? why are we getting this information now where it would have helped him 12 hours ago? those are the questions i m asking myself. it s interesting. let s go back to the two meetings that he had with the ambassador. one, he says was at the convention and it was just like a lot of avenue bass doors coming to him and shaking his hand and he didn t realize that the russian ambassador was one of them. let s give him the benefit of the doubt just for the sake of conversation. second one, meeting in the office in his senate office in september, this is deep in the throes of the presi
and parsing going on. i didn t meet with russians to discuss anything having to do with the political campaign. that doesn t mean he didn t speak to the russians about crimea or sanctions or any number of issues that might be relevant. right. and that s why it s very important for a.g. sessions to clarify what the conversation was. washington post describes two conversations, one that was inside the r nickell robey-coleman c. i don t think that is the one that is being scrutinized. it s the conversation jeff sessions had in his personal senate office. there seems to be some dispute whether the ambassador met with sessions in the office face to face or whether that was over the phone. but the content of that discussion, session seems to be maintaining that it was not related to the campaign, but to have a conversation with this person on september 9th in the midst of the campaign in the midst of the leaks is sort of, is unbelievable that something around the campaign was not discussed
has a real keyboard, so they can do real work. they can use bing smartsearch to find anything in the world. or last night s assignment. and the battery lasts and lasts, so after school they can skype, play games, and my favorite.do homework. change is looking pretty good after all. . in just about an hour, president obama will announce his fix that would help americans keep their health care plans if they like them. we re getting details about what
the president is expected to make some sort of statement on obama care 11:35 eastern, about an hour and a half from now. of course, we ll report it when it happens. there is a new scandal rocking the secret service. the washington post reporting at least one of president obama s secret service supervisors is under investigation. it all started in a bizarre incident at this upscale washington hotel. according to the washington post, an agent reportedly left a bullet in a woman s room. and then he tried to get back into the room to get the bullet. that led to the revelation of even more possible misconduct. this time, involving sex and e-mail. cnn s joe johns is following this story. it sounds so house of cards, doesn t it? reporter: it does, carol. we re getting differing versions of this. this is a story first reported by the washington post last night. a secret service review was launched as a part of the newspaper s inquiries. a government saurs says the
legal jep party and whether his repeated attempts to put up smoke screens constitutes obstruction of justice. robert mueller is looking at that question which goes back at least to trump telling nbc s lester holt on camera that he fired fbi director jim comey because of the russia investigation. so does this revealing new reporting in the washington post last night further that case given the time line as he now understand it. that s the question. joining us now, former u.s. attorney for alabama. thank you for being here, ms. vans. i ll start with that question. could donald trump dictating this statement of the way that he wanted donald jr. to respond about this meeting, in and of itself constitute obstruction of justice in. well the way prosecutors build cases is by compiling all of the information about a course of conduct and then making an assessment about whether they can prove from that