argument the president did something illegal prior to being in office but did so with the aim of gaining office becomes relevant to the impeachment discussion. i think so. i agree with what adam has to say there. an analogy to that might be when people procure their naturalization by fraud. they become a u.s. citizen but if you unwind it and look at their application, if they lied to obtain citizenship, a judge can strip someone of their citizenship. it s the same concept. if you obtain this thing by fraud you should not be permitted to keep the benefit of that fraud so i also think this week president trump has never looked more frightened and more like a mobster than when he talked about that flipping should be illegal. unbelievable. people who talk like that are people who are afraid of people telling the truth about them. i think that he is cornered and he knows it and he s very
dispensation from the attorney general not to comply with any of a variety of department of justice policies and procedures, it s not spec to this particular olc opinion. i may be in the minority but i don t see any extraordinary circumstances that would justify departure from the olc opinion here. in other words, the crux of the olc opinion holds it s unconstitutional to indict a sitting president. that s exactly what special counsel mueller would be doing, i guess, in your hypothetical so it s hard to see what the circumstances of indicting would carve out, would allow and justify the attorney general from departing from olc opinion which binds the executive branch. i may be in the minority but i don t see that as a likely scenario. mostly what i m trying to do, base we talk frequently about
clearly attorney general sessions doesn t have the confidence of the president. after the election, i think there will be some serious discussions about a new attorney general. ooh, snap. graham is not the only republican coming out to voice doubts about jeff sessions. senator bob corker said last night, moves are being made to oust sessions after the midterm elections while senator richard shelby who was once sessions co-senator from alabama admitted a lot of those jobs are tenuous when you re in the cabinet. if you re jeff sessions and you suddenly see your former colleagues and protecters in the senate saying your days are numbered, it starts to seem like a very good signal. not a good signal, but a clear signal. for the rest of us, we still have the questions of how we got to this point in an american presidency and what comes next. hold that thought. hi there. this is a commercial about insurance.
especially in the trump era when everything can go haywire in the few seconds it takes to type out a tweet. one thing has stayed constant for much of president trump s administration, that is his displeasure with attorney general jeff sessions. for a full 18 months, ever since sessions recused himself from the russia probe, the president has been complaining about his attorney general, threatening to fire him. somehow jeff sessions has hung on through all of that but today feels like a newly dangerous moment for the embattled ag. it started as do so many things related to donald trump with a tweet storm early this morning. quoting sessions himself, trump writes, department of justice will not be improperly influenced by political considerations. jeff, this is great. what everyone wants, so look into all of the corruption on the other side, including deleted e-mails, comey lies and leaks, mueller conflicts, mccabe, strzok, page or open the
the first loopty loop came over the weekend. top trump aide gives mueller coveted details. white house counsel strategy einvolved into survival tactic. monday trouble came in the form of the president s long time personal lawyer, loans inquiry may soon put michael cohen in a bind. that was a generation ago. on tuesday, wow, the president s campaign chairman paul manafort was convicted of eight criminal felonies, he s facing a decade in prison with another trial ahead. on any other day, that story would have had the front page all to itself. but look over to the left of your screen. it was pushed to the side in the relatively humble font by this pleading guilty, cohen implicates president. the president he s personal lawyer saying he committed eight different felonies with two of those felonies, quote, in coordination with and at the direction of a candidate for federal office. we know that to be donald trump. there is reason this headline is in all caps. there s a reason it stretches