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Welcome back. were following the breaking news, including president trump abruptly firing the attorney general of the united states, jeff sessions, earlier today. lets bring in our political experts and get some analysis of whats going on right now. dana, we watched this all very closely. a lot of people were bracing for -- at some point, sessions to leave. but it was a surprise it happened so quickly, only hours after the midterm election. >> that was the only thing that was surprising about it...

This is another move to shut do you know down the mueller investigation, that is something well have to seriously consider. i think many folks in congress, both democrats and republicans, have been waiting for bob mueller to produce his report and perhaps the actionable items in that. but if the president is not even going to let bob mueller get to that point, then, yes, that becomes a problem. that combined with the fact with how he fired comey, what hes done on mccabe, rod rosenstein and other...

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You have an opportunity to do something very damaging to that investigation. as i mentioned. but then to your larger point, the crisis a little bit is what does congress do when youre in a lame duck period? and so, you know, i think that it may be the case that things are done that shouldnt be. that the investigation is constricted in some way, that it doesnt become public immediately. and its some months before -- at least one house of congress can exercise its oversight responsibility and make...

Today. john kelly called jeff sessions before that press conference that the president had today, asked him for his resignation, and were told by sources that jeff sessions asked if he could stay until the end of the week. john kelly was very firm to him, according to laura jarrett, he could not stay until the end of the week. that it had to be today. which raises the question, if he did that before the press conference, why during that press conference did president trump duck that question abo...

And im just going to stay in charge of this. and so then, of course, it becomes an issue for people outside. and whether or not they want to pressure him to do it otherwise. but really, its going to be up to him whether or not he wants to listen to the ethics office. in the case of jeff sessions, he was part of the campaign. there was an obvious conflict there. and sessions has said it millions of times. he said, i had no choice. the president didnt really seem to buy that. but sessions really h...

With that russian attorney at trump tower in june of 2016. at one point, matt whitaker telling my colleague, pamela brown, that anybody would have taken that meeting. that is almost word for word from what we have heard from the president when hes talked about his own son having that meeting with that russian attorney at trump tower in 2016. one other thing we should point out, wolf. the letter of resignation from jeff sessions. again, a forced letter of resignation from jeff sessions. put that ...

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Those blue-collar interior states, potentially, for losses in the fast-growing diverse sunbelt states where democrats are probably favored to win nevada, toss-up in arizona, and texas may be on the pathway if they dont get there tonight. and that is, as i said, the costs of the trade, the benefits have been there for trump, but the costs of it, i think, and the question i have tomorrow morning if in fact they lose these suburban places not only in the obvious places but in atlanta and dallas and...