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Beschlosss, yours, mike, tom brokaw, well be hearing from him today. its not just a stain on the day, its a stain on the presidency, on the office of the presidency, on the white house and all over the halls of congress. never seen anything like it in my lifetime. dont know how they do it. still ahead on "morning joe," it was a tricky question for democrats -- were too many candidates running in california? were going to break down last nights primary results and whether the party boxed itself...

Is it just simply to remind the attorney general that hes really p.o..ed at him? is he trying to get him to quit? is he trying to emasculate him? what is the president trying to do? >> the president has made his position on this extremely clear and i dont have anything to add beyond that. >> he is so mad at jeff sessions, still, hes in recent weeks, he has stopped using sessions name, he wont say it senior aide members, have copied that. saying "him" or "attorney general." >> white house reporte...

Reinforce the values of the culture. so when our present president says, well, youre disrespecting the military or the flag ohe an them when you protest, bobby kennedy had a much different vision of are democracy and a different sense of patriotism and he would have encourageds to listen. he would have gone to those nfl players and said i understand what youre speaking about. its necessary to address the fact that unarmed black people are being murdered in this country. its necessary to address ...

I also think when you start having the criticism, a little bit of a different dynamic here than were used to with the typical eruption with this administration you have the media highlighting, democrats jumping on. its republicans right now. thats joanie ernst, one of the most conservative republicans in the senate. hes not entirely comfortable it seems there signing up for the defense of pruitt on this one. so i think when the criticism starts coming from within the party and you dont always se...

I dont understand the openness with one political party or one side of the campaign and the fact that they had shut everything down. it seems to me that that is serious. if you have russians trying to contact vulnerable young members of your campaign staff -- >> why not tell the candidate. >> why not tell jeff session whose is acting on behalf of the campaign? he was not only a sitting u.s. senator, he was one of the early adapters of trumpism and he was also someone that is a federal prosecutor...

Seemed pretty transparent, out there, recused himself immediately. and trump berating him and kind of holding his feet to the fire and you know, poor jeff sessions. that was really well-known, and this is an interesting take on this. >> it reminds me of the comey loyalty oath that president trump tried to give comey to give and back off the michael flynn investigation. both people he inherited and jeff sessions, someone who appointed himself. but it is interesting, kate, this whole story line, w...

And session refused. and the confrontation is being investigated by special counsel mueller. that is fascinating. >> yes. how furious donald trump was about jeff session. >> and to openly discuss it. >> and then basically spending months torturing the guy. this is great reporting and it goes to how president trump was very much trying to use whatever word you want, but at least very much like influence or strong arm his on attorney general into not recusing himself to the point that he knew what...

Despite the presidents claims, he is responsible for these separations. it is part of attorney general jeff sessions plan to prosecuter 100% of people who are crossing the border illegally. as the parents are detained, theyre separated from their children and this includes potential asylum seekers and undocumented workers. john kelly admitted the purpose of the separations is to discourage illegal border crossings. he called family separation, quote, a tough deterrent. theres also a different is...

Jeff session and kirstjen nielsen have said about u.s. policy about how immigrants that cross into the united states illegally will be apprehended, even if they have children with them. this goes back to the critical testimony that the man that runs this part of the program gave. >> reporter: it really does. and it begs the question, if the united states plans to separate parents from their children, will they be able to take care of them and will they be able to track them and during this testi...

Health and human services. and it happens to be that in december they checked on 7600 of those children. and they couldnt account for 1500. so were asking more questions, poppy, because so did they check on the other children, the other tens of houses of children? have they checked? are those children accounted for or not? were still asking all of those questions. what hhs did tell us is once a child is placed in a home with a sponsor, so this is a parent or a relative, then they say, quote, he ...