2016 president ial campaign. Theres growing call from both the democrats and the republicans for sessions to recuse himself from the russia probe. Should he do it . Attorney general sessions, hes still maintaining his innocence. He says and i quote for the very latest, go to our own blake burman live at the white house. Hey, blake. Reporter hey, trish, the important part of that quote that you read was about the campaign. Here at the white house, they are pushing back by saying thensenator Jeff Sessions was able to talk to ambassadors, in this case, ambassador, an ambassador of any country under his duties as a member of the senate. However, the other part here and which is a problem for sessions is the testimony he gave during his confirmation hearing which he said and i am quoting, i did not have communications with the russians. To that end, many republicans are calling republicans keep in mind are calling for the attorney general, should he be overseeing an investigation into russian meddling into the election to recuse himself. One of those being jason chaffetz, he sent out this tweet, ag sessions should clarify his testimony and recuse testimony. When asked about this, House Speaker paul ryan wasnt calling for sessions to recuse himself unless there is a specific stipulation. If he himself is the subject of an investigation, of course he would. If hes not, i dont see purpose or reason to doing this. Honestly, we meet with ambassadors all the time. Reporter james comey met with members of the House Intelligence Committee, after the meeting, devin nunes said he was told or from what hes heard at this point he has seen no evidence of contact between officials and Trump Campaign members. He wants more information from the fbi as it relates to any possible investigation. In order for us to do our investigation in a thorough and credible way, were going to need the fbi to fully cooperate, to be willing to tell us the length and breath of counterintelligence investigations theyre conducting. At this point, the director was not willing to do that. Reporter trish, keep in mind, as we talk about this, we await the president down in virginia to board the navy air carrier. This should have been a layup for the president on this day, going to the air carrier, having this opportunity, speaking about defense spending. Instead, the narrative that is hanging over the administration and the department of justice at this point is the story about Jeff Sessions. Trish you know, makes you wonder about the timing of these things, he did so well in the speech, and all of a sudden, the leaks get planted and the story is the sessions russia issue. Were going to talk about it. Blake burman, thank you so much. Joining me now Fox News Contributor and former chief of staff to president george w. Bush. Karl rove. Good to see you. Important story today, i question whether there is an amount of political theater here, what do you say . Enormous amount of political theater. Al franken, senator al franken, d, minnesota in hollywood, what would you do if you found out members of the Campaign Staff were in communication with the russians . And Jeff Sessions, senator sessions, answered it correctly. Im not aware of the activities and dont want to comment on a hypothetical. Senator leahy sent a written comment have you had conversations with the russians about the 2016, he said no. He acknowledges he met twice with the ambassador but met as his role as the Senate Armed Services member but not as a campaign member. Trish he was on the Armed Services committee, you would, as a member of the Armed ServicesCommittee Meet with ambassadors from various countries at any given time. Isnt that sort of what you got to do . Well trish they were talking about the campaign, and hes made it clear. No, they were in different capacity. Looks, it doesnt happen a lot. You would anticipate having taken a highprofile role, its a National Security issue adviser to candidate trump that ambassadors would be trying to climb over the walls and get a meeting with him. This is just a lot of this is abject politics. My personal favorite is senator Claire Mccaskill in missouri who got all up in arms, called for him to resign and said ive been a member of the Armed Services committee for ten years and never had a call or meeting with a Russian Ambassador. That was today. Ian prior at senate leadership, a super pac im involved with found her tweeting out in 2015, im looking forward to meeting personally with the Russian Ambassador, and got jump on it and get on a call with a Russian Ambassador. A lot of this is politics. Having said that, i do think that if the fbi investigation goes forward and finds something and makes a referral to the justice department, it would be right for senator sessions, attorney general sessions to recuse himself from it from this perspective. He was an official in the campaign. This may touch people who were involved in the campaign if there is something there, and it would just give people confidence if he said, i was acting. I hear you. I played a role and step aside and let my deputy make decisions. Trish you are concerned about any appearance of impropriety and you dont want to have those doubts seeded in the american public. Absolutely. Trish in your view, take the high road, but so you all feel better about it, i will recuse myself. I think he signalled that this morning. He was caught by reporters, getting into his car, and he said in essence, i would do the appropriate thing, and look, ive known Jeff Sessions for a long, long time. He has a great sense of integrity and no doubt in my mind if the investigation were somehow going lead to something, that he would understand that his role in the campaign would require trish in other words, a little convoluted in relationship to the ties and the relationships he has. Yeah. Trish have you known him a long time. What is your gut sense of whether or not this could have happened at all . Look, Jeff Sessions is not the kind of guy i would back this thats why i want to be fair. I looked at the franken question, what would you do if you found this out . Trish i think weve got it. Let me play it so the viewers know exactly what youre talking about. If there is any evidence that anyone affiliated with the Trump Campaign communicated with the russian government in the course of this campaign, what will you do . Senator franken, im not aware of any of those activities. I have been called a surrogate at a time or two in that campaign, and i did not have communications with the russians, and im unable to comment on it. Trish all right, that is the sound bite in question, that is the moment there. Franken is focused on the campaign. Trish wasnt aware of the activities but said ive been u two with the campaign and havent had communications with the russian. Thats where he may get tripped up a little in the semantics. Inartful. Trish he meant Political Communications with the russians. In the context of campaign activity, and it was inartful, and youre right. This is something if something emerges and the fbi comes to main justice and found information that would lead us to believe that you know about this, he should recuse himself. Franken, remember, what would you do if . And it wasnt did you talk to him . Leahy specifically said have you had contact with russian officials about the 2016 campaign . And he says no. Because the contact he did have was apparently in his rolesa the Armed Services committee member. Trish which is normal. If youre in the Armed Services committee, you meet with ambassadors from Different Countries and made the point about Claire Mccaskill who seems to forget she met with the Russian Ambassador and tweeted about it. I want to be clear. Having been through a couple of president ial campaigns, particularly the general election, ambassadors and representatives of foreign governments are desperate to make a contact with both candidate, republican and democratic president ial candidates and the campaigns, so whoever wins they begin to develop a relationship with them. Theres no doubt in my mind that jeff oo another members of the Armed Services committee were not visited during the same time frame and one of the reasons was jeff was the National Security issue chairman, adviser for the Trump Campaign. Of course, theyre trying to get a chance to plant themselves in front of him and begin to develop a relationship. Trish karl, quickly, before i let you go, so im completely clear on this. Do you think he should recuse himself now . No, no, no wait, wait, wait, look, this is all in the hands of the fbi, and adam schiff, the ranking democrat on the House Intelligence Committee is making a mistake if he is demanding the fbi in the middle of investigation turn over information so he can have a News Conference and be hot dogged. Leave it in the hands of the fbi, in my opinion, the senate Intelligence Committee, the House Intelligent Committee ought to look at question of russian involvement in the election. I trust the senate Intelligence Committee more, you have richard burr, a sensible democrat, the House Intelligence Committee, adam schiff is one of the highly partisan members of the committee. He is highly irresponsible at times, ill go into that at a later time. I will feel better about the senate Intelligence Committee going into this han the house. Dont force the fbi to prematurely cough up whatever they have. Let the investigation take its course. Trish have you all the unnamed sources and leaks, et cetera which also has many questioning the motives here. All timed coincidentally to right after the phenomenal speech that the president gave at joint session. Thank you so much. Trish, trish, sometimes youve got your deeply suspicious of human nature. What happened to your youthful idealism . Thats all ive got to say. Trish ive been talking too much politics, i guess. Absolutely. Thank you. Trish good to see you. You bet. Trish turning to the story that is captivating wall street right now. Snap, the parent of the disappearing message app snapchat is make its wall street debut today and everybody is super excited about it. The social media stock is trading higher since opening at 24 per share and investors jumping on the bandwagon. High volume is important to note. Making it one of the most heavily traded stocks of the day. Lots of momentum, it will stay . Cheryl casone is live with more on it. Hey, cheryl. Reporter hey there, trish, i have to talk local politics. We have protesters in venice beach that dont like snapchat. They dont want a company that just went public because theyre unhappy with the way snap handled business in venice beach. At the same time, the ipo so far today has been labeled a, is yes, trading started by 11 30 eastern time today. Once the stock hit the market at 17 a share, jumped right up. You had 24 a share price and change after that. How it will close, weve got to wait a couple hours. Have you millionaires and billionaires residing in venice beach. If you look at evan spiegel, hes worth 4. 9 billion. 26, 28 years old, these two respectively that cofounded the company. In 2011 when they called it pictaboo. Photos that disappear. If you look at todays trading activity, the facebook ipo was a bit of a stumble, mishandled by nasdaq, we dont like to bring that up for the folks of the nasdaq, but the stock gained 6. 1 that day. The twitter ipo gained 7 for the day, twitter stock after that stumbled. Youve got a lot of disagreement about the company and how they handle the ipo and how they handle their presence in venice beach, the corporate, Community Partner fushlgs. When all is said and done, they pulled off one heck of an ipo, wall street, investors and the media were loving it. Whatever happened to the stock today, its been a heck of a day for the ipo. Trish cheryl, thank you so much. Were going to talk about snap more coming up. Breaking right now, the Senate Vote Coming in confirming rick perry as Energy Secretary by a vote of 6237. The former Texas Governor has gone the support from nearly a dozen democrats during the confirmation process, so he is indeed the new Energy Secretary, you will recall, that was the department he wanted to eliminate. Hows that for irony. Democrats calling for the resignation of attorney general Jeff Sessions over his contacts with russia. The timing, i gotta say, is extremely curious. Its happening 24 hours after the president gave the best political speech his life. So is this a witchhunt or part of a greater scandal with russia . Were going to talk about it. Plus have you got a question youd like to ask me . Coming up at 3 30 p. M. Im answering them. You can ask me anything, i am hosting an ask me anything forum over at mogul. The website is on mogul. Com. On mogul. Com. Go there and ask me anything you want. Im getting questions about whether or not i still sing opera. Did you know that i did . What i watch on tv and questions about my shoes. Ask me anything you want, 3 30 p. 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The white house is condemning the report saying and i quote its no surprise senator al frank sen pushing the story as the democrats waste no time pouncing on all it. The fact that the attorney general, the top cop in our country lied under oath to the American People is grounds for him to resign. Is grounds for him to resign. He has proved he is unqualified and unfit to serve in that position of trust. After this, its clear attorney general sessions does not meet that test. Because the department of justice should be above reproach for the good of the country, attorney general sessions should resign. Jeff sessions should clarify some of this, as i said, this is now a contradictory, these are contradictory statements and i think that he should immediate low recuse himself from any of this. Okay, you get the picture . Immediately recuse or resign. Joining me with thoughts on all of this republican strategist Ford Oconnell and democratic strategist john rally. You heard karl rove say this is more political theater. Whats your thought on that . Is that whats behind this . This is a smoke screen for the democrats to hide true intentions which is to upend the Trump Presidency at every turn using all means necessary. Look they dont care about russian contacts, they care only because he won the election and had a good night on tuesday night and for nancy pelosi and Chuck Schumer to run out there and go berserk and say he committed perjury, should resign and barking up the wrong tree. Guess what . Theyre eating up the news cycle. Trish they are, trump is going to be speaking momentarily. Well be watching for that aboard the navy warship that he said he has full faith in Jeff Sessions. So hes standing behind him. You know, it seems to be a little issue of semantics as well here. You think back to the questioning that al franken did with Jeff Sessions, mr. Rally. He said if there is evidence that affiliates the Trump Campaign with russia, if they communicated, what would you do . He said, look, im not aware of anything like that, he said ive been called a surrogate a time or two and have not had communications with the russians. What he seems to have meant is didnt have Political Communications with the russians. Obviously, as a member of the Armed Services committee, have you meetings, do you not, john, with ambassadors from many Different Countries, including russia. Listen to the tape. This is a skilled lawyer after years, he totally misled the Senate Committee and the slaw pretty clear trish by the way, this is donald trump that the viewer is looking at. Hes shaking hands as he makes his way through, over to the podium there. Were going to be take his speech live as soo