after all this, sessions says it still wasn t a close call. i felt i had to recuse myself. and i felt very comfortable that that was the right thing. i thought if i m going to have any integrity and any respect within the department, i would have to recuse myself. but now that the report is out and we ve seen the evidence how trump has tried this investigation, trump is trying to hold everyone back from answering congress s question on obstruction. he never answered them himself. you didn t answer questions on obstruction. wait a minute, wait a minute. i did answer questions. i answered them this writing. not obstruction. i don t know. i answered a lot of questions. they gave me questions. i answered them in writing. > not on obstruction. george, you re being a little wise guy which is typical for you. just so understand, it s very simple. there was no crime. there was no collusion. there was no crime. now, this is the heart of it. if donald trump gets what he wants, th
whatever was helpful. after all this, sessions says it still wasn t a close call. i felt i had to recuse myself. and i felt very comfortable that that was the right thing. i thought if i m going to have any integrity and any respect within the department, i would have to recuse myself. but now that the report is out and we ve seen the evidence how trump has tried this investigation, trump is trying to hold everyone back from answering congress s question on obstruction. he never answered them himself. you didn t answer questions on obstruction. wait a minute, wait a minute. i did answer questions. i answered them this writing. not obstruction. i don t know. i answered a lot of questions. they gave me questions. i answered them in writing. > not on obstruction. george, you re being a little wise guy which is typical for you. just so understand, it s very simple. there was no crime. there was no collusion. there was no crime. now, this is the heart of it. if donald trump
man, it could be the democratic party decides the man is a woman and to beat trump we need to it to be a fill in the blank but can t go man-to-man. if biden wants it to be man-to-man what can he do? a number of things. i thought he was real defensive and came off a little entitled mostly because he was not doing a lot of press avails. he was not answering a lot of questions. when you re going to sort of shield yourself from the tough questions, when you re actually asked one by a reporter, best not to snap. best not to act like how indignant that you d ask me this. so what he needs to do tonight is defend his record without being defensive. answer questions. you might not think you owe it to us because we ve known your record for 40 years. you a do. the parties changed and the country s changed and you are
trump was trying to still get sessions to unrecuse. he goes up to him after a cabinet meeting and says i don t know if you could unrecuse yourself and saying i m not going to do anything or direct you to do anything. this is what the democrats think could make a difference if they had it in hearings with those actual witnesses. evidence trump was trying to kneecap the probe, do whatever was helpful. after all this sessions says it still wasn t a close call. i felt i had to recuse myself. and i felt very comfortable that that was the right thing. i thought if i m going to have any integrity and any respect within the department, i would have to recuse myself. now that the report is out and we ve seen the evidence of how trump tried this investigation, trying to hold everybody back from answers questions on obstruction. he also never answered them himself. you didn t answer questions on obstruction. wait a minute, wait a minute. i did answer questions.
paul manafort, rick gates, people who pled guilty who are not former white house officials who can t rely on and lean on that executive privilege claim. so democrats on the judiciary committee are certainly considering whether these people are more likely to talk and sit down, answer questions, turn over documents in a way that the white house officials or former white house officials won t. but lewandowski, gates, manafort, christie, what if they say no? they can t just say no. if they re compelled to testify, if they get a subpoena, they would have to answer to that subpoena. they would have to sit down and talk or they d be held in contempt of congress. that was something that jerrold nadler was given full authority to do in the house, take these people to court. obviously corey lewandowski did meet previously with congressional committees. it could be that these meetings happen in private at first as democrats size up what they have to share.