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i think in many ways our institutions are under assault, both externally, and that is the big news here. russian interference in our election system. and i think as well, our institutions are under assault internally? internally from the president? exactly. in high gear add in the meantime, jeff sessions, the attorney general, and his deputy interviewed eight candidates, the acting director of the fbi, andrew mccabe, john cornyn, alice fisher who was in the justice department years ago. judge michael garcia, federal judge from virginia, henry hudson. adam lee who is the head of the fbi virginia. mike rogers from michigan, he is supported by an association of fbi agents paid a lot of people think he has the inside track. they interviewed former bush security advisor frances umbrella of the u.s. global health fund which will probably by a factor of at least ten, probably more increase the amount of money that is covered by that policy. heather: just another monday on cap ....
mcgahn. he says that sessions made a huge error, he s very frustrated. a couple people have said one of the few times they ve seen him get genuinely angry as opposed to the blufter that we know the president is prone to was about jeff sessions. he s upset about the russia recusal situation and feels angry and hamstrung about the fact that the executive order that the president himself signed related to a ban on travel a temporary ban, quote/unquote, from muslim majority nations was struck down by the court. this was within the first week of the administration and set the tone going forward and in the president s mind, jeff sessions is tied to everything. lastly, your colleagues just broke some news which is fascinating about jim comey asking jeff sessions not to be left alone again with the president or that he didn t want to be left alone with the president. it s quite striking. essentially you have the fbi director concerned about the position apparently that the presi ....
protect trump from a special prosecutor. that s right. he blames him for two things number one, the president is a combatant. he likes people who fight. so he doesn t like that instead of fighting, sessions recused himself. but he believes initial step what set in motion the process that led to special counsel robert mueller who is causing tremendous headaches for the president and his family. his understanding of the role of the attorney generalship. can you square that what most people think an attorney general should be today? man or woman since at least janet reno, they re seen as the country s attorney general, not the president s personal lawyer. that s right. there have been people very close to them as the attorney general, like kennedy. or bobby kennedy. he would be the prime example but that s not what we think of. we don t think of the attorney general being the president s lawyer. we think of him being the lawyer for the country. in a way that s very impo ....
resigned tonight. the robust way he stood up to the trump administration and to trump himself on ethics issues and the president s unprecedented financial conflicts of interest. his name is walter shoeb. he said he was not forced out of the office of government ethics. he basically says he s leaving because the u.s. governmentestics rules are not strong enough to allow him to stand up to what this president and his family are doing so he is leaving his jb at the office of government ethics in order to try to strengthen the rules from the outside. very interesting resignation today. we ve got more on that story ahead. there s a lot going on. we ve got a big show tonight. i said at the very end of last night s show we ve got a scoop to share with you tonight. this is that scoop. in-house on your staff we ve been talking about this as and inside, kind of an inside-out story. not your typical news story, not your particular scoop. but i think it s important. one of the few times ....
they are lineup, i don t know. i don t like science. jesse: hours away from total solar eclipse. we hit the streets to test your celestial knowledge. watters world where the sun is always shining begins right now. welcome to watters world, i am jesse watters. dibeg news from white house stee strategist jee steve bannon is , joining me now, rnc spokesperson, kaley mckenny, i know steve bannon personally, i thought he was a fantastic strategist and a great adviser to president, but he became too much of a distraction circumstance what that you hear? i can t speak to inner workings of the white house, but we value his contribution and his time. he is out, he was a valuable contributor with a solid point of view, it is one that our president has his views on trade and immigration, he echoed the president who put this toward. jesse: steve bannon was a good adviser. at the same time, steve bannon, very aggressively pushed american nationalism, american economic independents, ....