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United states. again, imagine that s your boss. he went after jeff sessions yesterday. now he s done this in fits and starts for the last year plus. but in the last 48 hours or 24 hours, the president again has decided to make clear to jeff sessions, i wish you would go away. right? you don t tell a key deputy you accuse him of betrayal unless you want him to go away. right? i think it s pretty clear that trump wishes that jeff sessions wasn t there, but why is he still there? it s because the president doesn t want to or feels he can t fire him. and that leads me to believe that jeff sessions actually has some leverage in this situation and it s precisely because of the mueller obstruction of justice probe. he does have leverage, and listen, this is rudy giuliani yesterday asked this question. he met with reporters. he had a pool of reporters outside the white house. he asked this question, is the president going to fire jeff sessions and rod rosenstein? ....
Clear that jeff sessions message to don mcgahn look if this occurred you would have a revolt on your hands in the justice department. and that would be a real problem. and that sessions was very happy to learn that in the meeting that rosenstein had with the president last friday in which we are recording that rosenstein apparently told the president that he had no legal jeopardy in the michael cohen case, that the president was pretty happy with that news and maybe with rosenstein. maybe now he won t fire him. and zwref sessions will be happy. rich, would be it a problem politically for the president if he fired rosenstein and sessions quit? yes. yes it sure would. anything i does to move against mueller almost any form now would risk causing a semi collapse in his justice department. he won be able to get confirmed aj or a deputy ag to replace him. so it would be a crisis of legislate macy in his justice department. ....
Our panel, is here ton. gloria this move by sessions, would that be good news to president trump, the idea that jeff session wos resign if rod rosenstein was fired. he might think two for the price of one here. because he doesn t like jeff sessions and he doesn t like rod rosenstein. he might think okay well i didn t know that. maybe i should do that. on the other hand, it s very clear that jeff sessions message to don mcgahn look if this occurred you would have a revolt on your hands in the justice department. and that would be a real problem. and that sessions was very happy to learn that in the meeting that rosenstein had with the president last friday in which we are recording that rosenstein apparently told the president that he had no legal jeopardy in the michael cohen case, that the president was pretty happy with that news and maybe with rosenstein. maybe now he won t fire him. and jeff sessions will be happy. rich, would be it a problem politically for the president if h ....
States who knows nothing. who has been a witness to nothing. who is not a target of the investigation. what we are seeing now is conduct by two public officials, robert mueller and rod rosenstein that is unethical, unprofessional, an embarrassment to the united states government and is undermining equal enforcement of the law. sean: there is no doubt. because of what they are doing to a president of the united states. rod rosenstein single-handedly has taken away from the sitting president of the united states 16 months of his presidency by incompetence. you know why rod rosenstein appointed mueller? he didn t want to make the tough decisions you would have to make if you were supervising a case being run by a united states attorney like huber. rod rosenstein is a coward. he is a disgrace to the department of justice. it s a shame. sean: you can t fire him. it s a shame the president cannot fire him because of the political consequences. they can t fire him. ....
Incompetent and fearful conduct. you know why rod rosenstein appointed mueller? he didn t want to make the tough decisions you have to make if you were supervising a case being run by a united states attorney like huber. rod rosenstein is a coward. he a disgrace to the department of justice. it s a shame. and you can t fire him. it s a shame the president cannot fire him because of the political consequences. steve: they would also like the unredacted fisa warrants to figure out what went on. apparently a couple weeks ago a congressional liaison told the committee that they would not give them the unredacted materials. there is too much sensitive stuff. devin nunes is saying i know it s not highly secret. so can you release it because also people in the department of justice and the fbi have been leaking to the press, so we can see it unless we got it by april the 11th, you re going to be in trouble. brian: the chairman of the oversight can t get it, who can get it. ainsley: take l ....