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Firing people for all of this talk about what a bad job he is doing, yet he had the option of firing him. he got a resignation letter from him last year and got that back. their hope is they can get sessions to resign and they might. >> doesnt seem like they want to have it happen before the mid-terms. >> they dont want anything to happen before mid terms. >> the only thing protecting jeff sessions right now is mid-terms. jeffrey, hang on. there are interesting nuggets in this interview. margare...

The follow-up question is okay, what about after the mid-terms he didnt want to touch. maybe its to his credit he didnt want to touch it. didnt want to tease it or have that become the news. he didnt say, no, this is all overblown, everything is fine, instead he turned back to this idea that -- you could see throughout the conversation hes so frustrated with jeff sessions he feels thats why there is this ongoing probe of him. >> not related i understand the topic of impeachment came up, did he s...

Attorney general through the mid-terms, he will probably also remain the presidents punching bag. trace? >> trace: thats probably accurate. john roberts live on the north lawn. thank you. yeah, we have breaking news right now. president trump speaking in charlotte, north carolina. he is talking about the executive order on retirement security. lets listen. >> im going to study that over the weekend. its good time to study it, labor day. lets see how they do next week. a lot of people were agains...

Yet jeff sessions continues to hang in there month after month after month. maybe we say yeah, he goes out after the mid-terms, but maybe not, right? >> thats right. weve seen this president change -- i would think that sessions probably is going to go out. there was a story in the paper today that said its personal. the president doesnt like the way he appears on tv. we know the president is very concerned about having able spokesmen for his cause go out and represent him on television. he make...

Challenge in the house, democrats have a similar challenge in the senate side where they are looking at potentially losing a couple seats there. republicans can come out of this thing interestingly with a couple more seats in the senate than they had going in. >> good point. >> historically this makes it a very strange year. normally, the party out of the presidents power would pick up seats in both. it looks like democrats could either cut even or they might lose a little bit. that speaks to th...

[applause] thank you. great job. great job. >> trace: were going to keep monitoring the president there. hes about to sign that executive order on retirement security. meantime, i want to bring in chris wallace from "fox news sunday." so far, chris, it doesnt appear the president has gone off script there in charlotte. this idea that he says -- in john roberts reporting, that yeah, jeff sessions job is safe until the mid-terms or after the mid-terms. he wouldnt comment beyond that. not a resound...

Even better. but i think it is going to happen. and weve really developed a very good relationship. >> the administration under severe pressure to get something done before the mid-terms so it can claim victory even if its a hollow victory. >> jon: doug, thank you. >> sandra: potentially more problems for bruce ohr amid new reports of a mueller deputy being kept in the loop about the trump dossier. congressman adam kinzinger is our headliner and he will weigh in on all of this at the top of the ...

These kind of demands. ironically were in a place where attorney general sessions was forced to recuse himself because in 1978 democrats concerned about the political use of the justice department under richard nixon and republicans concerned about the political use of the justice department under john kennedy whose brother was attorney general, passed a law requiring standards to be set for recusal. the number one standard is has the attorney general been involved in the political campaign of t...

And theyre bracing for it. right? we saw axios reporter that there is a spread sheet created of all the areas they fear democrats will investigate in the trump presidency if they take back the house. i think that there is a sense that trump could be, i dont know what it would be. i dont have inside reporting on it but theres a expense there would be a brief window of opportunity. if trump will do certain things or try to get rid of certain people, theres a ticking clock here. he has to do it bef...

Of constitutional law coming up, and legal terms, even if it is with congress. >> i agree. really rich stuff. and at the end of the day, it is interesting politically and criminally. this is about national security. so what todays headlines make me wonder if the president is willing to do this for the "national enquirer" to pay off the "national enquirer," what is he willing to do with the russians? >> thank you for your time. after the break, the president claims he has no plans to fire jeff se...