Rachel Maddow takes a look at the days top political news stories. Whether a person is too close to the subject of the probe, whether Jeff Sessions would beak be more of a Trump Campaign surrogate who happened to be Attorney General rather than acting as an independent Law Enforcement officer. If sessions didnt recuse after that statement, it would have made him look even more like he was doing trumps bidding. And trump apparently didnt know that making that statement would also as just a general matter of embarrassment, make him look weak and out of the loop about a decision that was already done. Because there were reports that show the Internal Doj Process had already resulted in sessions accepting that nonpartisan Recusal Recommendation from the career staff earlier that week and that Jeff Sessions was already working with doj officials op writing the very rationale they would soon release to the public. In fact, it was barely an hour after trump put that public pressure on session
well, you said it was a mosaic of sorts. i wonder whether it s a self-portrait titled evidence of obstruction, given how drastically blatant it was. carol, we always appreciating your reporting and nuance. thank you so much. i turn to senator chris coons on the senate judiciary committee and rebutting giuliani s assertion that have collusion is not a crime. he re he i want to start with your view of whether what donald trump wrote on the internet today is evidence of potential obstruction. well, it s certainly evidence of his state of mind how he views the ongoing mueller investigation and of what he thinks should happen. his saying this morning that jeff sessions should shut down the mueller investigation which he calls a rigged witch hunt as