waters, we will see if they will work for you. he is expected to be the next house judiciary chair, tweeting that he wants answers about who is now in charge of the mueller probe and suggesting more endless investigations. that is really going to help the american people. joining us now, author of the new york h times best selr the russia hoax, fox news legal analyst gregg jarrett. also, author of the deep state, another new york times best seller, fox news contributor jason chaffetz. sara carter, investigative reporter. fox news contributor. where is your book? how come you don t have a book? i m going to have a book, sean, you g know it, too. sean: i know, almost immediately, recusal, recusal. gregg jarrett, you probably have been the single most outspoken person that sessions has to go, what do you think of the interim attorney general? do think he is going to recuse, god help us? or will the president now appoint a full-time replacement? now that there is no recusal
guy who served time, i seem to recall, through watergate. now he is a contributor to cnn, msnbc, what does he say? it is like the president is plotting to kill somebody, a murder. so he gets rid of sessions, what, so what happens? he has an acting attorney general, then i hear these so-called experts, he can t do that, there is a rule ofr succession of course he can do that. moreover, they say it is like the saturday night massacre how? i did he fire mueller? did he order the attorney general to fire mueller? did he order the deputy attorney general to fire mueller? he hasn t ordered anyone to do anything to mueller, mueller is still roaming the countryside looking for people to prosecute and challenge and so forth and so on. nothing has happened. a but chuck schumer is there, i think we have a constitutional crisis. let me tell you something, this is an important point. i have said that the appointment of mueller is unconstitutional and violates the appointment
s sean: joining us now with the very latest on the resignation of attorney general sessions, the election, and, of course, poor jim acosta, fox news chief intelligence correspondent, report from catherine herridge on sessions. what is going on, catherine? house chief of staff john kelly asked attorney general jeff sessions to resign, and the news was public after the president s news conference. whitaker is well-liked by the president,th not seen as an fbir justice department insider who came up through the ranks with special counsel robert mueller, deputy attorney general rod rosenstein, and others. whitaker, who was sessions chief of staff at the doj, ithe it is now rosenstein spas, already under scrutiny tonight for tweets, an op-ed he wrote last year about a redline special counsel mueller should not cross, it does not take aut federalr even a former prosecutor like myself to conclude that investigating donald trump s finances or his
the president and sessions, they just clashedd from the get-go. and it started with the recusal, whichet shocked everybody, especially the president. and i think this probably was not the right job at the right time, if that was his intention from the get-go. but i do think he is a good person, he has served his country honorably. sadly, sessions was m.i.a. on one of the most important issues ongoing inside the halls of the doj. in the first few weeks of taking office, sessions recused himself from all things russia. he should ve told the president, in my belief, ahead of time. that ultimately led to robert mueller s special counsel and a witch hunt, spending months, over a year, digging and digging and digging into everyone associated with trump. no evidence a of trump-russia collusion found, paul manafort in prison over bank applications and tax fraud from years ago. young trump campaign staffer george papadopoulos, lieutenant general michael flynn, convicted of lying to investigator
according to a recent d poll ranking 2020 democratic presidential contenders, none of the above actually topped the list. more on this throughout the show. and i will tell you, this is a huge deal. one thing we promise on this program, we are going to watch every day, and we are going to watch their actions and their rhetoric, and we are going to see, what will they try to do ti help the american people? or is it just revenge? is it about hating trump? we turn to another huge story, broke just hours ago, jeff sessions is now out as attorney general. in a letter, he wrote, i have been honored to serve as the attorney general, and have worked to implement the law enforcement agenda based on the rule of law that formed a central part of your campaign for the presidency. one thing of commentary here, i have known jeff sessions a long time, t i personally thought he would be aha great attorney general. thought it was a great choice. i know him to be a good man. i know that for a fact. for