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Russia controversy by sharing new details about a proposed meeting between then candidate trump and russian president vladimir putin. george papadopoulos the former foreign policy adviser pleaded guilty to lying to investigators in october of last year. but on friday his legal team told the courts that during a march 2016 campaign meeting, papadopoulos suggested a summit between putin and trump and then candidate trump nodded his head approvingly at the idea and deferred to attorney general jeff...

Papadopouloss new revelations. theyre directing reporters to sessions testimony before the house judiciary committee. this is all coming against the backdrop of tensions between president trump and attorney general jeff sessions. the two have been feuding for more than a year now. but president trump has recently said that attorney general jeff sessions is safe in his position at least until the november elections. sara westwood, cnn, at the white house. >> lets talk more about this now with sco...

Say in november of last year about this proposal. >> i have no clear recollection of the details of what he said at that meeting. after reading his account and to the best of my recollection, i believe that i wanted to make clear to him that he was not authorized to represent the campaign with the russian government or any other foreign government for that matter. >> now, the department of justice is not commenting on papadopouloss new revelations. theyre directing reporters to sessions testimon...

We touched on new polling at the top of the program that shows strong support for the mueller investigation. that same polling from abc news in "the washington post" also shows this difference of opinion concerning the presidents dispute with attorney general over the russia probe. 62% backed the actions of attorney general jeff session. by that, i mean his recusal. only 23% side with the president here. as for his job approval, it stands at 36%. 60% telling pollsters they disapprove. thats the ...

His administration because she stood up for the rule of law and if he goes and tries to fire jeff sessions, what were watching now is a slow motion saturday night massacre where hes really getting rid of all of the department of justice and legal officials trying to get him to abide by the rule of law. >> how do you think it will affect the mueller investigation, especially don mcgahn being replaced? >> i think it is not a good sign because don mcgahn was one of the reasonable folks in the white...

>> i hope his days are not numbered, everyone though i disagree with sessions on many policy issues, hes preserved the independence of the justice department and if donald trump would fire jeff sessions, that would be obstruction of justice because trump is not firing sessions because he disagrees with him on immigration. hes firing him because sessions is not interfering with the special counsel investigation and trump wants to put in someone that will interfere or conspira conspiracy. >> presi...

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>> i think it is very telling that a republican u.s. senator is basically telling donald trump dont do this. and thats because again, mr. mcgahn even though i disagree on policy, in terms of the rule of law he clearly understands it and understands the president is not above the law. he was trying to get donald trump to follow the law and it seems like donald trump wants to get rid of him because of mr. mcgahns views on the law. >> lets talk attorney general now, congressman, if you will. im tal...

Least for. so lindsey graham said yesterday the relationship between the president and sessions is beyond repair. and that the president probably should replace him after the midterms. why the change? why the change do you think? and without these republican senators supporting jeff session, do you think that gives the president the political cover to fire him? >> well, just to be clear, other republican senators said recently that this was a terrible idea, that the attorney general should not b...

Is for the law. roue gee ghoudy ghouiuliani doe know how to defend the law. maybe he keeps both of them, you know, one for the public city stuff and one for the legal stuff but its got to be an improvement over what he has now. >> michael, here is what po politico is reporting. they are engaging to get senators to turn on their former colleague, attorney general jeff sessions. the quote is trump raised the prospect in a phone conversation with graham according to two capitol hill aids who said g...