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Thats different than his, perhaps, more gran yu thats different than his, perhaps, more gran ylar daily gripes on twitter where hes talking about former fbi employees, lisa page and peter strzok or bruce ohr, someone whos currently at the Justice Department who hes threatened w withdraw his security clearance. Those are individual cases. The Justice Department doesnt comment on those. Today it was digit becaufferent it was about the Attorney Generals control over the Justice Department and felt like it was time to push back and this, oching of courf course, i. He rarely does this. He always, as every single event, sessions goes out of his way to praise the president. To talk about furtherering his agenda. But the one time that he did push back was back ....
Again, the time when attorney general jeff sessions hit back and so i think that s what we re seeing. he s not going to react every single day to every single tweet. but when his integrity is questioned, he will have something to say, ana. laura jarrett, we know you re continuing to dig into this. thank you. joining us now to talk more about it all, kaitlyn huey burns, national political reporter for real clear politics. cnn legal analyst and former prosecutor paul callan. and robert bianci, former prosecutor in morris county, new jersey. first reaction from everyone, paul. this is cowardly back stabbing by the president of the united states against an attorney general who has shown enormous integrity and backbone in standing up to mr. trump. the president s been trying to force a resignation of jeff sessions when he, the president, has the right to fire him if he wishes to do so. but the president is too fearful of doing that because it may subject him to obstruction of justice ch ....
hamilton fame. and kelly mentioned that the president won t see this not being in washington, d.c., but it will be very difficult to ignore the pictures, if you have 50,000 people here in washington and thousands more in cities all across the country which is the expectation this will be a nationwide movement with its center here in washington, d.c. but the idea being to draw attention to this issue in as many communities as possible. alex? okay. garrett headache where all the action gets under way shortly. thank you for that from washington. joining me now, kaitlyn huey-burns, political reporter for real clear politics. and alex siteswald. alex, are these protests more symbolic, or do you think they have tangible impact? i think they re largely symbolic, alex. but if you go back to the women s march, the first one that kicked this off the day after trump s inauguration last ....
Vetted? well ideology is certainly a factor. trump has indicated that he would choose from a list of conservative judges, largely vetted by the federalist society. conservative judicial group. and trump in 2016 remember, said very controversially that he would only appoint a justice to the supreme court who would overturn roe v. wade. so there s already a lot of concern about that on the left and a lot of excitement on the right. these are people who have been fighting to overturn roe v. wade for decades. and action turning to the states where people are looking to enact state laws to protect abortion rights should roe v. wade be overturned. down the line there s so many things that the supreme court touches, that the president has to be careful as he played in the clip where he can t necessarily ask these judges how they would vote on specific things if they were confirmed, but you can look at their case rods, can you ask around the question to get an idea of whether they re with yo ....