now you have a series of statements from jeff sessions he said under oath that are contradictory to it the facts. and you have increasing calls on congress for him to come back and retestify. what you don t see is republicans or any big movement to have him removed. and i think part of the reason for that is, no one if you re a republican, you don t want another hearing for an attorney general. if you re the president, even if you re unhappy with him for a number of reasons, kind of don t want to give in. punctuating that point here s what the democrat from minimum manipulate, al franken, said on this topic. he has contradicted himself so many times in the last since january that it really is hard to believe that he s been telling the truth at any one at any one point. sam n your latest piece you write about the rise of george papadopoulos. we all got make sure we now say papadopoulos perfectly.
president trump making light of the temporary shutdown of his twitter account after a twitter employee briefly deactivated the president s page last night. the president, you may have seen, responded this morning. he said, my twitter account was taken down for 11 minutes by a rogue employee. i guess the word must finally be getting out and having an impact. i thought about that one for a little bit. joining us now, nbc contributor sam sty. sam, first of all, the president right now en route to asia. in the past we would have policy stories for days on end. instead we re talking about the president s tweets as he flies