Honored that recusal with regard to matters pending the Department Of Justice, but i just want to comment on what may have been on anybody elses mind or offer any opinion about that because its not for me to make those decisions. Well, it is exactly, i think, why Senator Schatz asked a whole series of questions about the scope of recusal, because i am a lawyer. Senator schatz may not be. He asked better questions than i did, but i also am having real difficulty understanding the scope of the recusal, its contours in definition, and i have an unresolved question about whether or not thats why the Attorney General failed to appear before us today, is to avoid having to answer direct questions about the scope of his recusal. I do appreciate and respect your appointment of a highly talented Special Counsel, and there have been questions from both sides that imply strong support for his independence and his conduct, and i appreciate the care with which you are answering my questions, but im
Hours of testimony. Not only are the president s attorneys still in the dark about it, the president himself is rattled. Remember it was don mcgann who threatened to quit when President Trump attempted to fire Robert Mueller last june. Sources confirming that federal authorities are preparing charges against michael cohen. The u. S. Attorneys office is investigating cohen for possible bank and tax fraud as well as Campaign Finance violations for Hush Money Payments to stormy daniels. Those charges could come next week. And today, Paul Manafort served the Trump Campaign for 18 months. Hes facing 18 separate counts
of bank and tax fraud. He also faces charges on Money Laundering and fraudulent lobbying. Good evening, everyone, welcome to the program. Heres what the sources are telling cnn, mcgann didnt provide incriminating information about the president. He doesnt believe he implicated trump in any wrongdoing. Give me your assessment of this . I dont understand how they can say that so
foe tell sessions to recuse before he mcgann knew he couldn t do it. he s the guy that argues against the comey firing, he was there shoulder to shoulder, he doesn t know what mueller knows. it seems implausible to me that in 30 hours he doesn t provide factual material that s illuminating about the president s state of mind. i think it s overconfident to be saying that at this point. the real question is, why would trump s lawyers not debrief mcgann because he s given 30 hours of interviews. much of which the trump legal team is in the dark about. 30 hours is like a book on tape, isn t it? that s a lot of testimony, the white house got nothing out of this in return for letting all
examining whether sessions had an additional, private meeting with that russian ambassador back on the campaign trail, but the justice department says it never happened, period. so, you can be sure senators are going to want to question him hard about that, kate. absolutely. laura, thank you. so many questions. thank you for laying it out for us. everyone will be watching to see how, and if he does answer those questions. laura, thank you so much. peter and diane are back with me. laura jarrett laid out the main questions here. diane, let me ask you this. on the question of executive privilege and will the president tell sessions to invoke executive privilege, the white house when asked about this yesterday said it depends on the scope of the question that sessions is asked. what kind of question, with all the list that we now see, what kind of question do you think would lead sessions down that path? well, it s hard to say, but i think, certainly, if a senator were to ask a questi
all righty, we are just about three hours away now from the most significant, potentially consequential senate testimony since the last significant, potentially consequential senate testimony five days ago. oh, the times we live in right now. the hot seat still smoldering from james comey s bombshell testimony last week, about to get fired up once again. in the spotlight today, attorney general jeff sessions. he will be testifying in public before the senate intelligence committee about the russia investigation and the firing of fbi director james comey. a major question still to be answered will sessions say that he can t answer key questions, asserting executive privilege from the president? cnn will definitely be bringing you special, live coverage from washington starting at 2:00 eastern for that hearing. let s go to cnn s justice reporter laura jarrett, though, right now, ahead of that hearing, to lay out there are a lot of questions, clearly, that he s going to be facing, but