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Gave different elements of that. >> what do you make of his lying? he took great umbrage when he came before a senate committee anyone would impugn his motivations or integrity. he took umbrage today at you and said because youre where you are you cant be sued, which is true, in a technical sense. what do you make of that? do you think thats sincere? >> i dont. and by the way, i do have advice for the attorney general. he said i dont recall so many times that i think he should go see a doctor. b...

Actual story is. the factual bases just does not merit special counsel, a. and an excellent point you just made, which i had almost forgotten about, the mercer-backed clinton fact book, the people who fund breitbart and bannon paid for this book. that was investigated by the fbi already. they have already been through that. >> yeah, been there, done that. doj and fbi career professionals said its not there. >> do you trust -- there was a lot of interpretation yesterday about that sessions letter...

Pants. that there were some amateurs involved. well, my response there would be that collusion can have all of those flavors, as well. it could be amateurish, it could be chaotic. it could be fly by the seat of your pants. and frankly, when you put the pieces together, thats exactly what we have seen, a real hand-handed effort, it seems, to collude with the russians. >> one of the other things sessions did today which was interesting was a kind of frustration, resentment being asked to recall th...

Newly unsealed court documents revealed that he was informed during the campaign of efforts by george papadopoulos, a campaign foreign policy adviser to connect with senior members of the russian government. both sessions and the president attended a march 2016 meeting of the campaigns national security committee, which was chaired by sessions, where, according to those documents, when papadopoulos introduced himself to the group, he stated, and im quoting here, in sum and substance, that he had...

Approach by wikileaks, and it also really destroys any notion that wikileaks was this impartial truth-teller and not an instrument of the russian government. an instrument of the russian government that don jr. was all too happy to cooperate with. >> eric smallwell had a question, do you love don jr. he said no. it seemed as much as sessions was close to the president, theres a fair amount of daylight between the two men as time goes on. >> the president called him beleaguered a couple months ag...

You lying now? >> plus -- >> hes obviously not fit to be in the united states senate. >> roy moore vows to stick it out as even steve bannon has second thoughts. and why democrats are ringing alarm bells as tax reform sneaks into an attack on obamacare. >> this literally flew in out of nowhere in the last 20 minutes. >> "all in" starts right now. good evening from new york. im chris hayes. there is a lot jeff sessions doesnt remember about the trump campaign, and its various contacts with ru...

In jeff sessions court. the travel ban, so many things he wanted to hit hard on that the justice system has made it difficult to do and he blames jeff sessions for so much of that. so its all snowballing now. >> yeah, it will be interesting to see how the relationship continues. ned price and vivian, thank you both. next, jeff sessions, as vivian was just saying, faces pressure from republicans in congress, and the president to appoint a special prosecutor. sessions fiery response to tough que...

What we have seen, a real hand-handed effort, it seems, to collude with the russians. >> one of the other things sessions did today which was interesting was a kind of frustration, resentment being asked to recall these specific things from over a year ago. and it occurred to me, you run department of justice. assistant u.s. attorneys are doing this all across the country every day and every interview they do with people, asking them very specific questions about what were you doing a year ago. ...

Russian investigation. president trump wanted to see him sort of full-fledged fighting the good fight for him and the justice department. but theres a number he have other things, too. so many executive orders the president wanted to see carried through, basically the ball was in jeff sessions court. the travel ban, so many things he wanted to hit hard on that the justice system has made it difficult to do and he blames jeff sessions for so much of that. so its all snowballing now. >> yeah, it w...

Members, claiming that sessions advanced an agenda that will do great harm to black citizens and communities. today louisiana congressman had the opportunity to confront sessions face-to-face before the house judiciary committee. >> how many african-americans do you have on your senior staff? >> i do not have a senior staff member at this time thats an african-american. >> of all of the u.s. attorneys that have been nominated or confirmed, how many have been african-american? >> one in alabama. ...