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Callan, form "new york times" homicide prosecutor. okay alice, you have been talking to sources, i understand, inside the doj, how is sessions responding to these public calls for his ousting? >> hes not letting it deter from his day-to-day activities. he is focussed on the job at hand and continuing to execute the presidents agenda. he has a high priority on dealing with immigration, certainly with the opioid crisis and others and those are going to be his top priorities. and certainly reducing...

Really upset about that. he really thought that sessions betrayed him by not acting as a firewall between them, and he talked for a while. it was clear he was trying to push sessions out, shame him into quitting so he could replace him with a new attorney general who was not recused, who could then fire mueller. one of the ironies of that is that sessions has been one of the most effective cabinet members for trump in pushing trump-style agendas into the bureaucracy, whether its cracking down on...

These firings, push sessions out, put a lackey in his place, somebody willing to fire mueller, i wonder if republicans would just go along with that because, again, if they could put in an ag who suddenly declared, weve investigated, weve found no wrongdoing, case closed, how would the washington media disentangle themselves from a new attorney general saying theres nothing there? >> listen, we had an e-mail that came out two weeks ago about that june 2016 meeting with donald trump jr., can jare...

Where this could actually play into an obstruction issue, to be trying to push sessions out, which could lead to the firing of rod rosenstein, which could lead to a domino effect that would affect the mueller probe? >> well, i think that this theory is alive and well, and i think were going to have to wait and see what mueller finds. but if i understand what mr. cohen has said, the president directed him to essentially commit a felony. and thats obstruction of justice. so were going to have to w...