probably mitch mcconnell, paul ryan level. we don t off talk about them as being the backbone keeping president trump from doing something. it s not just the intuition of the president that this is something he couldn t do strategically. i think that in so much as a leader of the senate and house can threaten a president with some kind of ramification charles grassley said we wouldn t be able to confirm. mcconnell delivered that message with respect to sessi sessions. he said, you can t do this. again, who knows what that mean? but i think you reported that a couple of times. jeff sessions comes from the senate also. i don t know if mcconnell has had that conversation with the president in the last six months. these new, sort of alliances are very much sort of the post partisanship we never thought we would want or see.
cabinet secretaries have drawn. but he s the one trump is attacking and it s because trump is vulnerable on this investigation, he s always been worried about it and still is. i heard last wednesday before he sent out his attack on sessions or his desire, his request that sessions end the probe, that he was talking to friends, musing about firing him as recently as last wednesday. if he fired him now, what does that look like to the investigators? you know, i would like to think that firing jeff sessions is a line that this president cannot cross. one would hope that the folks up on the hill would finally regrow their backbones and stand up and say you can t fire this man who has had the decency and the legal accountability to recuse on an investigation where he had a clear conflict. you can t fire him over that. and that s clearly the only reason that trump would be firing him. to investigators, it adds a wholeal layer of
defending him. yeah, he is still a right wing nut and he is carrying out the trump agenda on criminal justice and civil rights or really his own agenda i think, as well, on criminal justice and civil rights to the debtmetrimef the country. but yeah, i almost find myself saying bully for jeff sessions. that s not where i usually am. i wonder if at some point years from now or months from now, days from now, we ll learn that the reason he hasn t fired sessions or rosenstein is that john kelly won t do it for him. he doesn t fire anybody himself. he just kind of has it happen or haske kelly do it or whatever. it may be that he s getting such pushback from kelly and others in the white house that they just won t do it for him. i would say that it s
president trump, postcards from the deep. a trio of threats inching slowly, ever closer in the form of robert mueller, michael cohen and paul manafort. feeling the heat perhaps, the president reupping his attacks on his sitting attorney general with this tweet if we had a real attorney general this witch hunt would have never been started. looking at the wrong people. let s start with you. the attacks on sessions are one of the weirdest things that happens on a regular base necessary this white house. what s interesting is, especially in the larger theme of today s tweet storm, you could end every one with i don t know why i hired this person to begin with. he has it in his power to fire them. what he doesn t seem to understand, for as animated as he gets here, it magnifies the weakness he has by not acting, by hiring the not best people
justice investigation because of your threats to fire jeff sessions. sure. you know, trump apparently has no impulse control here. i feel certain that his lawyers have warned him on repeated occasions against discussing anything to do with his attorney general publicly. apparently, though, he just can t help himself. and the irony is that sessions and look, i think i need to say it, and i never thought these words would come out of my mouth but i agree with trump, that sessions is not a real attorney general and i look forward to getting back to the days when we can discuss criminal justice and civil rights where sessions is failing as an attorney general. but what he s doing remarkably well is he s going ahead and putting into play trump s agenda, whether it s immigration, criminal justice, and he s doing it almost emaculately, and with very little attention and hasn t drawn the negative attention that some of trump s other