Phil, what is the status there . Reporter alisyn, as we speak, there are firefighters in that building still trying to tackle the blaze and the smoldering ruin. That very fastmoving fire has left. No one is talking about this as a rescue operation anymore. It is at best getting rid of the fire and also a recovery operation. Authorities are warning. They expect the death toll to rise. Probably today and certainly over the comes days. Now it started in the middle of the night and moved quickly. People who realized something was going on fast enough. They were able to run through the panicked halls and star w l stairwells and get out. Others waited for the firefighters to get to them. Others still ran out of time and options. What that meant is people on the outside of the building watched as the fire moved and eventually swallowed these people or drove them to take drastic action. Take a listen to what a few witnesses said here today. It was just horrific. So awful to see. Im watching people at the windows waving and shouting for help and screaming. Then to see flats engulfed in smoke. There are actual bodies there. Kids, men, women. All as a result of them trying to jump out. Reporter witnesses heard people screaming save my children. Save my children first. The structure of the building is ongoing concern. Civil engineers are monitoring it. It is not in danger of falling. That is why firefighters are still inside there. So, moving forward from here it is a question of how did this happen. Theres a theory and thats from the locals. This building was recently renovated and had exterior adding to it for aesthetic reasons. The fire took hold the material and raced up the side of the building. Phil, thank you very much. Obviously still a lot to be done there. One of the main problems they are dealing with inside that building is the fire has destroyed any means of ingress of getting to the floors and units. Somehow do you search . How do you find people in different pockets preserved . It will be difficult and take a long time. One of the most nightmarish scenarios you can imagine. Obviously we will follow all of the breaking details from london. To our other top story. Attorney general Jeff Sessions calling the idea that he or anyone else from the Trump Campaign and thats important. The ag spoke as if he knew any possibility. He said nobody colluded with the russians. He called the suggestion a detestable lie. The attorney general did anger democrats because he did not answer a lot of questions about his conversations with President Trump and events surrounding the comey firing. Cnns athena jones at the white house with more. It was interesting. He said he hadnt been brief ed about the russia investigation, but he was steadfast that he knows that no one from the trump staff colluded with russia. Reporter good morning, chris. Thats right. The attorney general was firm on that and as you mentioned, he avoided answering a ton of questions. A slew of questions about the conversations with the president. Look for all of the reporting about the deteriorating relationship between President Trump and attorney general sessions, sessions loyalty to the president was on vivid display during the hearing yesterday. Sources tell cnn the president watched the hearing from washington to milwaukee. The spokeswoman said sessions did a very good job. At times emotional. The suggestion that i participated in any collusion is appalling and detestable lie. Reporter at times, combative. Why dont you tell me . There are none, senator. Reporter attorney general Jeff Sessions came out swinging at Senate Hearing tuesday forcefully denying any collusion with russia to interfere with the election. I have never met with or had any conversation with any russians or any foreign officials concerning any type of interference with any campaign. Reporter but for all the fireworks, sessions refused to answer several key questions. Despite the fact that President Trump did not invoke executive privilege. Sessions would not say what he spoke with the president about before recommending the firing of fbi director james comey. Im not able to discuss with you or confirm or deny private conversations i may have had with the president. Reporter or whether the russia probe was a factor in the decision. Ill have to let his words speak for himself. Reporter sessions silent on whether the president was upset over his recusal. A decision sessions said he felt compelled to make because he was adviser to the Trump Campaign. Not because of any wrongdoing. I recuse myself from any investigation into the campaign for president , but i did not recuse myself from defending my honor against false allegations. Reporter the attorney general blames the handling the Hillary Clinton email investigation. Skilled former prosecutor. It is not him that has the problem. It is Hillary Clinton. Reporter Democratic Senators lashing out over the attorney generals refusal to answer questions. I believe the American People have had it with stonewalling. You are not answering questions. You are impeding the investigation. The president has a constitutional i understand that. The president hasnt asserted it. Im protesting the right of the president to assert it if he chooses. Reporter republicans coming to sessions defense. Have you ever in the fantastical situations heard of a plot line so ridiculous that a sitting United States senator and ambassador of a Foreign Government colluded in an open setting with hundreds of other people . Reporter sessions confirmed the account of the Oval Office Meeting in february where the president cleared the room to talk to comey alone. Sessions downplayed the significance. My sense was the attorney general knew he shouldnt be leaving. I left. It didnt seem to me to be a major problem. Reporter now on the question of special counsel bob mueller, the white house said the president has no intention of firing mueller. Deputy spokesperson Sara Huckabee sanders refused to say if the president had confidence in mueller. Sanders confirmed the president interviewed bob mueller about the fbi director position one day before he was named as special counsel. Chris, alisyn. Thank you very much, athena. Lets bring in the panel. Analyst david gregory. Analyst jeffrey toobin. Editor at large for cnn politics chris cillizza. Jeffrey toobin, they know what happened with sessions yesterday. The sensitive issue becomes he was wrong about defending his honor as he said. He was not strong about defending the constitution. He seemed to preference protecting the president. He said i dont want to talk about the conversation. I will exert the executive privilege. That is not how that works. What did you think of the refusal to answer . It shows how much witnesses are in control of congressional hearings. There is no judge forcing you to answer. I thought his legal position was clearly wrong. The executive privilege belongs to the president. Congress has a right to investigate executive branch matters. The only way you are supposed to be able to decline to answer questions is if the president instructs you. I believe these conversations with covered by executive privilege and you must not answer. There is no preemptive executive privilege which is what he was saying. No preserving executive privilege for later. You exercise it or you dont. What his failure to answer did, it gave the president a double benefit. It kept the information from the congress that they wanted. It also saved the president the political heat of exercising executive privilege. Because that is something that donald trump might have been criticized for or would have been criticized for. He didnt do it. What can we do about it . We had senator blumenthal say we will subpoena him. He cannot do that with the special counsel. Sure he can. What you have to do is get the courts involved. The congressional hearing no matter which committee, even a special counsel cannot compel him . They can find him in contempt to not answer and they can solve whether he is correct in declining to answer. That is a very complex process. It takes months. It would require the republicans in congress on the committee to agree to the contempt citation which is unlikely. The grand jury, mueller might actually go to court more efficiently if he this it is important. David gregory, what did you hear yesterday . A couple of things. I dont know that the going in there was a cloud of suspicion around sessions that somehow he was involved in colluding with the russians to interfere in the 2016 campaign. Yes, there were disclosures about meetings that he was at least lax on if not worse. Now were in the zone of trying to figure out you are the attorney general. What conversation did you have with the president before he fires the fbi director and claims it is over the russia investigation while you and your deputies say no, it was about poor management of the fbi. About which you never had a conversation with the fbi director. That is what people are interested in zeroing in on and that is where sessions, frustrated the public and frustrated democrats and exposed a more partisan division on the Intelligence Committee with republicans coming to his aid. There is another piece that did not get a lot of light yesterday. His role in the National Security team of the campaign. He was exposed to general flynn and others. I think what people wanted to know is did you know attorney general sessions about what Michael Flynn was up to . Did you know the president s thinking about russia with regard to anxiosanctions . Whether messages were sent . We let it go. That is what i think they wanted to get to and frustrated on that point. We have the underlying offense that sometimes doesnt get as much attention as the russian interference. Now you have an investigation by bob mueller that is focused in large part on how the president s conducted himself with the investigation and whether he got in the way. Chris, this testimony yesterday and tell me if you disagree, would have made sense if it were a staffer. He is like i dont want to compromise the president. I wont do that unless i have to. I will defend my honor. This is the attorney general of the United States. This is the man who sat there and said i was never briefed on the russia investigation which i thought bolstered his recusal claim. He did have full confidence that i know nobody connected had anything to do with russia. How . How do you snhow . If you have not been briefed on the investigation . This was obviously self serving. Yes. I would say i dont think that self serving congressional testimony or questions asked of people who were giving testimony in congress is self serving. I would say hinrich and tom cotton who got headlines out of the hearing did self serving too. This is the top Law Enforcement official for the United States of america. That is why i was about to go with the but. Chris. You beat me to it. I had a 5hour energy this morning. I had seven of them. The reason i think it does matter, chris, this is the top cop in the United States. Number two, i just think sessions repeatedly and david touched on this. Sessions asked us to hold two contradictory notions. One is the one you point out. I wasnt involved with the russia investigation. I can assure you we did nothing wrong. Number two, you know, comey, i left him alone with the president because he knows what he is doing. He is a pro. I trust him. On the other hand, comey is a bumbling fool who is running the fbi into the ground. You cant use the absolutely contradictory images of james comey to your own purposes. He can be somewhere on the perspective, but he cannot be the pros pro and the idiot. Jim comey did this too. We are big capital j justice. We are fighting for the independence of the Justice Department in disciplined ways. You want us to believe as attorney general you never said to the president , you know, mr. President , firing the guy investigating you is not the wisest course of action. I would love to find out if that conversation occurred or if sessions said ill leave it to him. Jeffrey, lets talk about camila harris. Should i interview you the way the men interviewed her . Comey interrupted me. True. There is this now overlay of sexism at work. Some saw. Lets listen and see what you think. Sir, im not asking about the principle. Im asking im you rely on the policy. Did you not ask your staff to show the policy that is the basis for refusing to answer the questions that have been asked in. Should be allowed to answer the question. Senators will law the chair to control the hearing. Senator harris. Let him answer. They were arguing he should answer the question. She should ask the question. Remember, they are dealing with very tight time deadlines. They had five minutes to ask questions. The witnesses, especially an experienced veteran like sessions knows you can run out the clock if you give long answers and he is a slow talking guy. C camela harris, she was pressing him. John mccain, you noticed he wasnt the chairman there. He jumped in to come to sessions aid. It was the second time. It also happened in the comey testimony when harris was told be a good girl. Dont ask such hard questions. What is that . I think it is sexism. They are uncomfortable. I know something about this from my wife who is as you know a top trial lawyer and who faces this in court all the time. When a woman is asking strong questions and wants an answer, there is a different treatment on the part of witnesses. It can be the judge. It is sexism. This old fashion ed thinking an action when nobody interrupted ron white and says take it easy. They had a feisty exchange. On the same day with uber with the Sexual Harassment detailed by the attorney general and some board member cracks a joke. We know it would be better to add more women to the board, but the problem is there would be more talking as a result. A lot of women who have these moments and they say this is not a revelation. You think we make this crap up and it happens all the time. He also lost his seat for that joke. Pretty stiff price for it. We will have senator harris on the show. What does she think being interrupted was about . Is it about being a woman or Something Else . That will be interesting. Cnn learned donald trump told republican senators the Health Care Bill passed by the house is quote mean. Now, remember, the president celebrated the bill. Said it was great. Now he says its mean. And the president is calling on republicans to make it more generous, kind and have heart. Cnns Suzanne Malveaux live on capitol hill with more. The hypocrisy aside. The president has a good gut for where the peoples minds are on policy. Should his brothers and sisters in the party start listening . Reporter you know. It is all about negotiation, chris. You and i remember the moment in the rose garden and ceremony with the House Republicans bussed to the white house to celebrate the version of health care. There are some lawmakers this morning feeling they are under that bus. This after that lunch from the president and Vice President meeting with senate republicans, moderates and conservatives to do what he called put forward something more generous and kind. That was on camera, chris. He under scored that off camera. Sources telling us he called the house version mean and the son of a b the expletive. He said it did not provide the kind of money for people to survive in health care. House republicans are feeling they cannot trust this president. They understand there is negotiation going on, but clearly they dont have the kind of political cover that they were hoping for. Listen. One of the times i look at the president and say were on the same side. Help us out. We are clearly not trying to be mean. Quite the opposite. Trying to help people. Reporter where are we with all of this . There is a deadline they are setting for themselves to get something passed by the july 4th recess. There are no debates or hearings scheduled. If you talk to aides to lawmakers, they dont have the language for the bill at this time. The question is did the president help or hurt his cause what he calls his signature legislation . It is interesting to see the next steps. Suzanne malveaux, thank you. Jeff sessions refused to answers questions on his conversations with the president. Has the president invoked executive privilege in the case of your testimony here today . He has not. What is the basis for refusal to answer questions . Did senator angus king ever get an answer to that . He is here next to talk about it. Just likmarines did. The process through usaa is so effortless, that you feel like youre a part of the family. I love that i can pass the membership to my children. Were the williams family, and were usaa members for life. Are you one sneeze away from being voted out of the carpool . Try zyrtec® its starts working hard at hour one and works twice as hard when you take it again the next day. Stick with zyrtec® and muddle no more®. Tech when you schedule with safelite autoglass, you get a text when were on our way. You can see exactly when well arrive. Im micah with safelite. Customer thanks for coming, its right over here. 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