story last night. now ken dilanian reports, quote, other white house officials called him and urged him not to disqualify himself from running the probe. as dilanian describes it. it was a full court press to get sessions not to recuse himself because donald trump wanted what he viewed as a protector in charge of the russia investigation. all raising more questions about whether the president obstructed justice. and meanwhile, there is more trouble ahead. the associated press reports key staffers are looking for the exits and the administration is struggling to fill jobs. this afternoon, heading to camp david for the weekend, the president tried to look on the bright side. the tax cuts are really kicking in far beyond what anyone thought. the market is good. the jobs reports were very good. and we think they re going to get really good over the next couple of months. we re making america great again. thank you. thank you very much.
know, we thought this presidency could work, we thought donald trump was an interesting character and we might be able to do something here, and they saw over that time come to the conclusion he cannot do this job. the president threatened lawsuits and demanded the book not be published. the white house called it fiction. but then they had trouble pointing out specific falsehoods. and the president s whole week became rockier still with reports that white house council don mcgahn lobbied attorney general jeff sessions, urging him not to recuse himself from the russia investigation. the new york times broke that story last night. now ken dilanian reports, quote, other white house officials called him and urged him not to disqualify himself from running the probe. as dilanian describes it. it was a full court press to get sessions not to recuse himself because donald trump wanted what he viewed as a protector in charge of the russia investigation. all raising more questions