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You peel back and you look deeper, there is an event like this where the president is going to him and saying, look, you have recused yourself, but can you come back? can you come back and be in charge of the investigation? i give the president some creative points for, you know, coming up with such a novel idea that most lawyers would never, ever think of. >> but there were a lot of guardrails around the trump/sessions relationship. and theyve all been before bob mueller so there are a lot of p...

Understanding of what witnesses like hope hicks and don mcgahn who has been down to muellers offices multiple times who has really been in the room for a lot of these things, how much mueller knows and how much trump thinks he knows, whats the gap there? >> i think its really important to go back and look at that sessions relationship, especially this week as weve been really scrutinizing the relationship between the president and deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. all of the wrath against ...

Hill, agree with him, that he should not have recused himself. two conservatives today, jim jordan, mark meadows of the house freedom caucus, both of them coming out and saying very clearly that sessions should not have recused himself and sessions should resign. but also an interesting twist is that democrats, on the other hand, theyre saying he should not resign because if he were to resign presumably trump could put a loyalist in. >> i think were at a point where democrats dont want sessions ...

President was the only one who was kind of left there not knowing that. sessions certainly, i think, got to that decision very quickly. so the idea that mcgahn sort of didnt under that and couldnt explain that to his client, the president, is remarkable. >> i heard from a lawyer from a previous administration who said they had explicit rule the president would not correspond, communicate with the ag -- >> theres strict protocol between the white house and justice department for good reason. they...

Inauguration of donald trump. >> we are live in chicago tonight. >> on the same night president barack obama was giving his farewell address to the nation. >> we have breaking news in the nations capitol tonight. i want to go straight to jake tapper. >> a team of cnn reporters broke a stunning story. >> jim sciutto, evan, perez and carl burnstein and i have all been working on this story. claims to compromise the president-elect donald trump. >> the president-elect and the out going president ha...