the country that doesn t want a constant focus on negativity and on getting rid of the president but who also is not fully aware of the fact that as james clapper recently concluded in his book facts and fears the government under vladimir putin may actually have stolen the election. that s something that people don t really believe yet because the facts aren t all out there. you have a president going out screaming witch-hunt, witch-hunt and making it he knows how to do it. he is a very effective entertain enary gradually gets people to believe what he says as long as he says it often enough. in your book you point out before the 2016 election republicans were talking about impeachment. you reference the washington post article written a day before the election. senior republican lawmakers are openly discussing the prospect of impeaching hillary clinton should she win the presidency. you say republicans use these
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issues. that could be one reason why this president has not made any moves. and we could get to ask sarah sanders about that within the hour. kristen welker doing a good job battling the white house lawn mower for airtime today. kristen welker, thank you very much. natasha bertrand is a staff writer for the atlantic and an msnbc contributor. jake sherman is the sior writer for politico. and chuck rosenberg is a former u.s. attorney, senior fbi official and msnbc contributor. natasha, i want to pose a big question to you. if president trump is so unhappy with jeff sessions, why in the world doesn t he fire him? you wrote a story about this very thing, i believe, last month. right. this is really the big question. and there are a number of competing theories. the first is that it would be, obviously, politically explosive for him to fire his attorney general. jeff sessions is additionally very well liked among republicans. so it would just be, it would just not be good for the presid
asylum in orange prison jumpsuits and as you said shaelked, their hands and legs shackled. they are basically being processed all at the same time. at lot of these people are people who came over with kids. according to the reporting that s out there they are people who came over with kids to seek a better life. they are fleeing just horrible violence in the countries they are coming from, including the woman that you described in your piece. the judge doesn t seem to know that the children are being separated. you talk about that in the intercept piece. and doesn t seem to understand that the kids are not going to go back to the parents. unfortunately, sfz just started talking. but debby please come back to talk to us further about this extraordinary important story. retract his allegation that the fbi was spyin on his campaign? clearly there istill cause for concern that needs to be looked at. the deputy director of the fbi was actually fired for
the president believes is his. ego is on the line here, so the president has often been angry when someone else is trying to claim credit for something. and two, he went after his family, personally, directly. ivanka, of course, jared kushner as well here. so those crossed two lines. but it was extraordinairy that statement there, and we re told it was dictated by the president himself, in part by advisers, but it s important to know the history here. there s bad blood between steve bannon and the children of the trump family here, so a lot of that is underlying all of this. the question here is this, will the president be able to not talk to him going forward? of course, steve bannon has said he is going to play a central role in the midterm election campaign. as for now, one adviser here said he can t imagine him speaking to him again, but we ll see. they ve tried so many times to quit each other. it hasn t happened yet, erin. all right. thank you very much, jeff zeleny. and of cou