from other career doj lawyers and then sessions, the attorney general, made a decision, probably the right decision at the time so the concept of him trying to stop sessions versus maybe framing it this way, sessions got legal advice from different people and made the ultimate right decision so depending on how you frame this, it could look different. we re talking about the concept of trying to stop sessions but ultimately he got a bunch of advice and made the right call. bill? scott was talking about lawyers. the striking thing about the july air force one statement of trump is that i don t think we have any reason to think he consulted his lawyers before putting out a statement swhich, as i recall, was in response to an article about his son having that meeting. no, in fact, the new york times story has the president s lawyer on hold for an hour and a half not able to get through. right. that s interesting. so at the time, though, it was there was no need for the white h
fury and the details of the decision to fire comey, the concoction of this fake reason why jared kushner and others had the meeting at trump tower, how might that impact the senate judiciary committee s investigation? i believe it s very important we continue this. you have to let director mueller do his job and these attempts to undermine it have been so concerning to my as a former prosecutor, everything from people calling on sessions to resign because of this to saying the special counsel got his documents illegally when in fact he had to come out and say that s not true and it makes me think we need to continue the judiciary committee investigations. the public has a right to know this. we have an election that is less than a year away and we have information we have to get out there about the coordination
probably the right decision at the time. so the concept of him trying to stop sessions versus maybe framing it this way, sessions got legal advice from different people and made the ultimate right decision. so depending on how you frame this, it could look different. i know we re talking about the concept of trying to stop sessions but ultimately he got a bunch of advice and i think maybe made the right call. bill? scott was talking about lawyers. the striking thing about the july air force one statement of trump is that i don t think we have any reason to think he consulted his lawyers before putting out a statement which, as i recall, was in response to an article about his son having that meeting. no, in fact, the new york times story has the president s lawyer on hold for an hour and a half not able to get through. right. that s interesting. so at the time, though, it was there was no need for the white house to respond. right? there was nothing about president trump in
this fake reason why trump jr. and jared kushner and the others had that meeting at trump tower, how might that impact the senate judiciary committee s investigation? i believe it s very important we continue this. you have to let director mueller do his job and these attempts to undermine it have been so concerning to me as a former prosecutor, everything from people calling on sessions to resign because of this to saying the special counsel got his documents illegally when in fact he had to come out and say that s not true and it makes me think we need to continue the judiciary and intelligence committee investigations. whatever we can make public we should. the public has a right to know this. we have an election that is less than a year away and we have information we have to get out there about the coordination that was going on with russia, what russia was doing to attempt to influence our
government. senator amy klobuchar of minnesota. appreciate it. my panel is with me. scott, i know you wanted to weigh in. a couple things that jumped out on me with this story tonight. the prospect that the president s lawyers are not telling him the absolute clear-eyed truth about what s happening with this investigation, tonight it s the concept that maybe they misled him about whether he could dismiss and how he could dismiss the fbi director. before that it was his own lawyers misleading him program about when the investigation would wrap up. whether he s going to be angry or not, it s the duty of the lawyers and the white house staff to give the president clear-eyed realistic information. he may get mad, he may be rageful about it but you cannot have a chief executive getting information like that that s biased. the other thing i wanted to say about this mcgahn/sessions meeting. it strikes me that what happened here was the president told mcgahn this is my view, go communicate