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Advice of Career Lawyers in the Justice Department. It wasnt just a whim of Jeff Sessions, this was a serious consideration went into this. Im sure Jeff Sessions didnt want to recuse himself but that was the advice he got. The president has been loudly lamenting sessions decision to do just that. Sessions pushing ban on his part saying essentially that the actions to have department of justice will not be improperly influenced by political considerations, thats the thing that he shot back, your ...

Stand by. but guess who it was who basically told acosta you need to leave. it was mick mulvaney. and there was grumbling on the hill. the president was willing to hold out in the midst of the controversy. the president put acosta out there saying, look, sway the american public. and it may work. but mulvaney said if you -- you got to go. and then there were members on the hill that said this dont bode well. the president was willing to hold on in the midst of the very ugly, ugly controversy. >>...

Point the mueller investigation is so far gone, they so far into it that firing jeff sessions will not end the investigation, he would have to fire rod rosenstein as well and fire robert mueller, so, you know, its too much politically going on and so i wish donald trump if he wants to, you know, keep the senate, keep the house, you know, quit talking about this, just let it take its course and talk about the successes the republicans have had, talk about great economy and longest bull market eve...

>> so get to it. >> a lot of people believe that there was a process that was a backlog. so a lot of people who wanted jobs outside of black republicans, a lot of people who wanted to serve the administration, its widely reported that the employment-filling process was slow and there are a lot of positions still to be filled. but some people believe that omarosa blocked them. >> thats got to be the last word, thank you all. i appreciate your candor and i appreciate -- listen, were all people of ...

It. lots of tentacles and nuance here. right? its not just the departure of a staff member thats controversial. chris, the presidents approval rating among black voters according to the latest pew poll is down 7%. it wasnt high to begin with. but are all these indications that president trump and republicans are going to have a big problem on their hands come 2018? because black voters and young voters may be mobilized against them. >> don, you mentioned the 98-2 vote among black women for doug ...

So what you have putin doing is essentially promulgating the deep state theory, which is nonsense, but he knows exactly what hes doing. and hes very effective at it, don. >> sean, this report that was in the "washington post" today raising concerns that the president is not treating russian meddling in the 2016 election seriously. hes not taking it seriously. and as a result his staff has sort of learned to treat russia with kid gloves around him. including at the daily briefing today. i want yo...

We have some new developments tonight in the russia investigation, more on text messages sent by fbi official peter strzok when he was still on robert muellers team. i want to bring in now cnn justice reporter laura jarrett. laura, good evening to you. what are you learning about the role this fbi agent played in both robert muellers investigation and the clinton e-mail investigation? >> well, don, im told two weeks ago, when news of these text messages first broke, peter strzok was not a househ...

Mcmaster now in a senior position though not a cabinet-level position. i think everything else was just sort of there. i dont think -- i think april makes an important point. its sort of the voices that are in a room when decisions are being made. i think donald trump diversity is not something that he is terribly focused on. in a way that barack obama was, in a way that george w. bush was. in a way that bill clinton was. i mean, its just -- its not a top-tier priority when hes picking who does ...

Other world leaders just dont bode well. >> what about the idea that -- how concerning is that to you? and that again according to "the washington post," steve. >> its concerning because i think its part of the pattern of sort of this avoidance of the russia problem because we dont want to make vladimir putin, we dont want to irritate russia. and this is the great myth, because russia can be helpful to us. theoretically can russia be helpful to us? i think thats what the administration is trying...

So the fact he then later joins muellers team for a brief period of time is being used to say the entire russia investigation has to be tainted because he trashed the president in his text messages. don? >> what about his role in the flynn investigation? what more do we know about that? >> yeah. so earlier this year, actually, my colleague evan perez reported that the fbi agents who interviewed flynn initially werent in favor of pursuing charges against him for lying in his interview with the fb...