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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. ....
With that finding and the ag reports mueller doesn t have to report to us. he only has to report to the ag, and it comes out there s nothing there, it will be suspicious. if sessions were there, and he has recused himself, it gives an air of legitimacy to that finding that the president may lose the benefit of the he gets rid of sessions. yes or no? yes, absolutely. i always thought for republicans and donald trump but especially congressional republicans hoping to get beyond this at some point, the special counsel is the best possible option in that, if bob mueller comes out and says we looked into it, there was some stuff here that wasn t great, but there s no crimes here. there s no collusion. that s the only possible way i think in the american public s eyes that they get beyond this issue. again, chris, this goes to the point, we have a tendency, and because he won, when most people ....
Civil rights, voting rights, you can argue about whether this is a good thing. it s certainly the trump agenda. what it s all about is russia and how fixated the president is on the unfairness he proceeds of this investigation and he blames sessions for it. policy doesn t matter. it raises the question of whether playing checkers is a smart move in a chess game involvings is. he is why. if you don t get rid of sessions, mueller comes out with his findings and it is we found this and this, but nothing really major. he is a back stop for president trump. if he removes sessions and you put in someone else who is invariably going to be seen as a dupe, when mueller comes out ....
Everybody in his cabinet. i don t understand the only thing that i like that sessions has done is the only thing that trump hates that sessions has done, he followed the law and recused himself. i m not a lawyer, but every lawyer i know says he did the legal and ethical thing. i assume he fires him and tries to put in giuliani or one of his cronies, or christie, somebody like that, somebody bombastic that will do trump s bidding and sneak him in in august under a recess appointment. senator sherrod brown, thank you very much for all your thoughts on what s happening today and in the future. great to have you here. chris. a critical election in venezuela. that country has been on the verge of civil war. some would say it s actually tipped over the verge. we have a live report on that crisis next. day 13. if only this were as easy as saving $600 ....
In life. loyalty is a one-way street with donald trump. the president and attorney general sessions need to work this out. this is about rule of law, not the rule of trump. this is new day with chris cuomo and alison. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. this is wednesday, july 26, now 8:00 in new york. senate republicans are going to continue debating the future of health care in america in just hours. the senate failed to advance a plan to repeal and replace obamacare last night. nine republicans voted against it. the today, they re going to vote on a plan to repeal with with a two year delay in replacement meaning people would lose something and not know what comes next. meanwhile president trump is intensifying his public attacks on jeff sessions. the president refuses to say whether he ll fire him calling the recusing unfair to the ....