exchanged starting with sessions's recusal from the russian probe, the president didn't want a special counsel. isn't the fbi director james comey firing what led to that and it wasn't necessarily sessions' fault? >> i think that's true. it was a tumbling cascade of events. institutionally there's always been a strain between attorneys general and the white house. sometimes attorney general is close to the president going in and by the time they finish that relationship has become frayed. we saw it with nixon and his attorney general john mitchell who didn't want the job. but within time that became a very difficult relationship. so white houses have a tendency to really test friendships and relationships. >> so, justice department spokeswoman says sessions isn't stepping down. we hear that frustration has