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The answer is simple. ill do what ive always done... dream more, dream faster, and above all... now, ill dream gig. now more businesses, in more places, can afford to dream gig. comcast, building americas largest gig-speed network. breaking news, a source tells cnn president trump has pressured attorney general jeff sessions to overturn his decision to recuse himself from the russia investigation. obviously sessions has refused to do so. "outfront" now, harry sandick, former assistant u.s. att...

Alleviate -- you own stock in a certain company, you sell it, now youre able to participate it. now here, he got out because he was viewed as being a partisan of the president and maybe had meetings with russian leaders during the campaign. >> john, is there anything wrong with the president of the united states multiple times pressuring the attorney general to unrecuse himself? is it obstruction of justice or not? >> i dont think so. i think whats going on here is president trump, sounds like h...

Professor, that john yu wrote that memo. we take that legal advice from the olc. we implemented what you americans and what you the federal government told us to do. and now youre going to turn around and put it on us? well, james bivey is a federal judge and john yu sits at berkeley. >> whione of the things we lear is there are cia agency personnel who were in these detention sites conducting these tactics and were very upset what they were doing, really wanted guidance from above and said do w...

Gina haspel than tom cotton. >> yes. >> at least some people who have led the cia in the past and who loathe this president say she will push back if not about torture, about some of the other institutional prerogatives of the cia. >> people in the cia love gina haspel. that has come across people that i have talked to. >> its tribal. >> well, no, but i think she has very good reputation there. i think its a little more than that. >> shes also backed the rank staff in destruction of the videotap...

Your bosss bosss boss. she could have been in trouble for some of the things kasie was talking about had not president obama at the time stepped in. >> i think, look, the obama administration made the decision to look forward, not backwards. we made the conscious decision to affirm that torture sil legal everywhere, wherever it takes place inny form. but at the same time there was one single law enforcement investigation, the durham investigation that recommended -- that came forward without rec...

Absolutely. im confident that he will do that. i received assurances that his firing is not even under consideration. >> dana: lets bring in john yu from the bush administration and attorney michael moore. so glad to have you here. michael, if i could start with you. can you explain the process of how it works that the mueller team would try to negotiate with the presidents lawyers to figure out what the interview scope should be? is that a normal occurrence? is that something afforded to the pr...

Going to be a long day and a long process. >> dana: john, i have to run but its not a terrible thing to win in the court of public opinion as well, right? >> all of these things, independent counsels in particular in impeachment of a president are a combination. trump would be smart to bring in other guys. if he hires them, hes bringing in the gold gwen state warriors of prosecution. joe was a special counsel. ted beat a special counsel. >> dana: all right, john. i have to run. john, you and mic...

Injustice, lawrence. petes reporting is accurate, and there is a serious mark on mccabes record. the record overall, though, is 21 years of exemplary service and respect by everyone in the department. what really stinks about this one is the rush to get this done by friday, which was only motivated in a petty way take his pension away from him. compare this with john yu, the author of the torture memos, the same thing happened to him. opr recommended and then it wercwent to the attorney general....

Unless they short circuit that process and that means no way they can do it unless its by political pressure from the very top based on spite and mean spiritedness. >> thats interesting. what im hearing from you you view this as a jam job. that trump tv has been railing against mccabe. youve got the process that hasnt played out yet. the white house sort of berating the ag and how sessions might be next to go. basically this is the white house attempting to get this done via vendetta. >> 100% ja...

Harry lipman in the department of justice, former attorney general. this is the entire conundrum of this president. on the one hand, an internal review that seems to indicate mccabe may have misled investigators about allowing his people to the press and should be fired for it, on the other hand, the president has been railing against him and it is hard to trust the good faith here. what do you make of it? >> its impossible to trust it because the fact is, yes, there was an internal review but t...