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Bickering and you talk about it. between his chief of staff and him. and john kelly. michael who is often on the show. says the president he always has the power of firing at the table. he doesnt like to fire people like his character that he played on the apprentice. he has trouble with that. >> he likes other people to do it. he likes to keep people uncomfortable. i think john kelly kind of knows hes twisting a few months ago it was jeff sessions. he was goij to be out any day. there had been ...

Wray to fire deputy director andrew mccabe. axios says that wray threatened to resign if mccabe was removed. what do you think? >> good for wray. this is his first big test. weve already had what looks to be obstruction of justice with the president firing james comey. the idea that jeff sessions would even contemplate this to go down to mccabe, who theyre upset that his wife got some money from the democratic party when she ran for office in virginia. it was a long time ago. he recused himself....

Seek to get rid of him, and that jeff sessions, after all he has been through, would go along is very disturbing. >> it has been said that the white house was concerned. they said they were concerned about how this would play in the media. they said understandably, they were gun-shy after the comey debacle. they didnt want that scene. so mccabe remains because they didnt want another scene after the comey debacle. >> they should have. >> salena, what are your thoughts on the report? >> im right ...

Has left the white house. and that has -- and its very hard for them to get new people. so that means the least -- the bottom of the rungs have risen up. stephen miller is one of probably two key advisers to the president in the white house. stephen -- steve bannon called stephen miller my typist. in other words, this is -- were in a reality so inverted at this point. >> but the truth of the matter is stephen miller is not a neophyte. neither is kellyanne conway. you write about both of them, th...

Russian ambassador. >> jared kushner met with the russian ambassador in secret. >> in response, the president would invert the revelations about russia flooding propaganda and disinformation into the campaign. he flipped that. he denounced main stream american journalism as fake news. >> the leaks are absolutely real. the news is fake. because so much of the news is fake. >> by late january, the white house had been warned that the presidents national security advisor michael flynn had been comp...

Trump expressed disappointment with attorney general jeff session recusal. heres what he said eric holder was more loyal to president obama. quote. alex, is this a direct diss to sessions right here? >> reporter: absolutely. he has been holding sexes out to dry fmonths. and that bam seat that is now occupied by a democrat. jeff sessions vacated that to become attorney general even though it was trumps choice, trump tends to still blame people. but you know, he really believes and i think he got ...

Holder protected president obama, totally protected him. when you look at the things that they did and holder protected the president. and i have great respect for that. ill be honest, i have great respect for that. of course this issue of loyalty has been a theme with president trump. you will remember back with the flap between me and the former fbi director james comey, comey testified at one point the president called him in and suggested that if he was going to stay in his job that the pres...

Mueller will treat him fairly. but adding the russia investigations make the u.s. look very bad and the sooner it is worked out the better it is for the country. more now from cnns ryan nobles in west wapalm beach. the president implied he should be more like president obamas attorney general eric holder. >> these comments are pretty revealing. it shows hes smarting from attorney general jeff sessions decision to recuse himself in the russia investigation. the president repeated numerous times i...

Impression that the president thinks he could do whatever he wants with the justice department. when we look at what happens in other countries with regard to their ability to abide by democratic principals, we look at the ability for justice systems to operate independent of politicians. and so in this country i think we need to uphold that principal and i think the president has struggled to do that with some of his interference with the justice department. >> one word that has been used a lot...

Question from reporters hes not going to fire mueller. does this fit into, i dont know, ive been thinking about it, the category of jeff session, which is im going to keep him around but blame and shame him whenever it suits me. >> i think the president is aware that the consequences of firing bob mueller are far more grave than would be the consequences of firing jeff sessions who truly does serve at his pleasure. that being said, you see from the president and his allies including members of t...