mr. sessions refused. the confrontation is being investigated by the special prosecutor robert mueller, iii, as are the president's public and private attacks on mr. sessions and efforts to get him to resign. and tonight axios is reporting, quote, president trump pressured attorney general jeff sessions to reclaim control of the russia investigation on at least four separate occasions, three times in person and once over the phone, according to sources familiar with the conversations. jonathan swan's axios report said quote the sustained pressure made several officials uncomfortable because they viewed it as improper and worried it could be politically and legally problematic. axios says trump's conversations with sessions about reversing his recusal occurred throughout last year and that trump told sessions he'd be a hero to conservatives if he did the right thing and took back control over the russia investigation, according to two sources with knowledge of their conversations, trump also told sessions he'd be a hero if he investigated hillary clinton. and today we got the first taste of the cohen tapes as rachel and i were just discussing. the michael cohen tapes, as was