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Inner sunny core lenoe and being upset that his attorney general is not the kind of war time conciliare that he thinks barack obama and jack kennedy had and he needs acy sillian like roy kohn, one of the most reviled human beings of his generation, to be his conciliare here, his attorney general. and a complete misreading of what the function of the attorney general of the united states -- >> just for those who arent as familiar with "the godfather"er. sonny was the worst of the sons in terms of...

But whats striking also is the presidents fundamental misunderstanding of the role of attorney general. >> yeah. >> he wants someone to protect him. a roy kohn, a fixer, a henchman. that is certainly far from what the attorney general of the united states should be. and ill be very blunt, anderson, i was one of the first members of the judiciary committee to oppose jeff sessions as attorney general. i voted against him. and ive differed with him repeatedly on policies. he did the right thing by ...

Staff is putting a stamp on what jim comey had testified to. and the issue that came up about the comey letter, this is a letter that the president wanted to send to comey to fire him and the very first sentence mentions russia. now, the wording on that was changed in the final firing letter where it says i appreciate you telling me on three occasions that im not under investigation. the original memo specifically mentioned the russia investigation aunld called it politically driven. >> all righ...

The report says when sessions did recuse himself, quote, the president erupted in anger in front of numerous white house officials saying he needed his attorney general to protect him the way he believed robert f. kennedy had done for his brother john f. kennedy. he said wheres my personal one. kohn died in 1986. he had been disbarred. according to the "times," this is one of the episodes that their sources say special counsel bob mueller is looking into. matt, to you first, what you and

Letter. that letter is a pretty good evidence of current obstruction of justice. it really is a very interesting revelation in this article because it was really intended to mislead the fbi and misleading the fbi is a federal offense. but going back to roy kohn, he was the evil lawyer involved in the mccarthy hearings and he was a monitor to roger stone and donald trump. asking for his own special roy kohn is a sign of desperation, its a sign somebody will pull every treek nitrick. it was a very...

That would have his back. those are the names he mentioned. kohn, kennedy and holder. its not as corrupt necessarily. so, you know, to andersons question to me, is this going to be of interest to mueller? absolutely. will it be despositive of an obstruction of justice case? probably not. another interesting fact of the road were going down. >> someone who was the white house council under nixon, don mcgahn is at the center of a lot of conversations, knows a lot about the inner workerings of the ...

And protect him from what? what is it that the president feared? i do think this is going to add momentum to whatever already a roaring fire here. >> it is fascinating, given jeff sessions early sign-on to the trump campaign, traveling with the president, it is fascinating that president believes he appoints him attorney general and hes going to continue being his roy kohn or bobby kennedy. >> there is no doubt thats what he believed, that this was his role, to protect the president. irony of al...

Remember, at least according to the times story, if its accurate, the reason he went -- he tried to get sessions not to recuse himself is because he didnt have someone like roy kohn there protecting him. he wanted the attorney general to protect him. that is a corrupt motive. >> that is not why the attorney general -- its not the job of the attorney general, so its not i think it -- if again, if the times story is accurate, its a lot less benign than youre making it out to be. >> it could be ben...

Worked in the white house and knowing how scrupulously people dealt with the justice department, the fbi, the notion of a president sending his white house counsel over to persuade the attorney general not to recuse himself -- we knew that trump wasnt happy with that decision. but now this act of actually involving himself through his counsel and trying to persuade him is new information. and whats particularly disturbing is this description of trumps reasoning. attorney general so protect him. ...

Strike back and strike back hard. thats what his father did. and for sure, that was roy kohns style, were going to see that more and more now as more and more revelaions -- i dont know if there will be indictments, i suspect there. more and more news from mueller theres a level despite his desire not to feel it, trump is very, very, very anxious that muellers going to get him. ive said before, and ill say it again, i believe he will. interestingly, i dont know that mueller will get trump for rus...