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Interviews with newsmakers and roundtable discussions cover the top news stories of the day. Interviews with newsmakers and roundtable discussions cover the top news stories of the day. Simply the fact that this strategy on the part of mueller and the other district of new york prosecutors may be working right now. One interesting question will be to what extent will there be information relating to state law charges against some of these people and that is legally significant because the presid...

Presidency. mueller has had cooperation from manafort, cohen and flynn. think about that. so he knows everything. he may or may not have discovered things that would be legitimate grounds for impeachment, either on collusion or obstruction. i think hes probably discovered enough hed feel hed have to let congress know what hes discovered. so one way or another, i think were looking at presumably, fairly soon after the election, the next two or three months after, a mueller report one way or anoth...

Oust his attorney general, jeff sessions. politico reports that trump is mounting, quote, a furious lobbying campaign against sessions, which has also worn down his lawyers. politico also notes that while trump has been warned that firing sessions with the mueller probe still active might open the door to an obstruction charge, quote, trumps legal team has become increasingly convinced that mueller will make that case, regardless of whether the president fires sessions or leaves him in place. in...

Good to see you. thank you. >> thank you, take care. >> harris: alert on the escalating war of words between president trump and his own attorney general. the president and jeff sessions going back and forth in a public battle over the attorney generals recusal from the russia investigation. the president tweeted this most recently. department of justice will not be improperly influenced by political considerations, hes quoting jeff sessions there. he says, jeff, this is great, what everyone wan...

Saying, please, jeff sessions, stay where youre at. what youre doing is good for the country and good for everything. and, you know, its hard to disagree with that. again, another distraction, another situation where were not talking about the presidents agenda here. and i think they can get off of all of this stuff and focus on health care and tax reform, which theyve tried to do today, later today, thats where they need to be. thats where they can unite republicans. >> sent a tweet out last ni...

Welcome to "the lead," im in for jake tapper. we begin with the politics lead. the uncertain future of attorney general jeff sessions. lindsey graham warned there would be holy hell to pay if trump fires sessions. now he says the relationship is beyond repair, suggesting the attorney general be replaced after the midterm elections. graham telling cnn this, just minutes ago. >> here is what i know, that trump doesnt like him. and that this relationship is soured. im not blaming jeff. he cant go o...