I dont recall any discussion of the campaign in any significant way. I dont believe anybody that was in that meeting would have seen or believed that i said one thing improper or unwise. And it was really a sad thing to be attacked like that. And the reason i believed i should recuse myself is because i was involved in the campaign. To a degree, i think it would have been perceived is that i wouldnt be objective in participating in an investigation that might involve the campaign. Trish all right. I want to go to blake burman right now with more on all of this. Hey, there, blake. Hi, trish. The president down there in florida before he starts his working weekend in palm beach. But before that, he is currently in Central Florida in orlando to push School Choice, an issue that the president has lk aut here in the recent days. He did so a couple nights ago at his joint address to congress saying that education is the quote civil rights issue of our time. This was supposed to be the focus for the president on this day. But before just he got off the plane there off air force 1 in florida, he fired off a tweet that circled back to russia and Jeff Sessions and the like. It was toward the Senate Majority leader Chuck Schumer and heres what tweeted out. Quote we should start an immediate investigation into senator schumer and his ties to russia. And putin. A total hypocrite. Showed a picture with them in which they were smiling all buddy and buddy. Just a little while ago, schumer fired back and said quote happily talk re my contact with mr. Putin and his associates. Took place in 03 in full view of press and public under oath. Would your and your team, question mark . Here at the white house, they continue, trish, to stand by Jeff Sessions. They say that it was basically boils down to a mistake, not disclosing that he had met with the Russian Ambassador. But they say when he was talking to the folks up on capitol hill during his testimony, they say it was very clear that he wasnt talking about his activities as a surrogate for the Trump Campaign. The president is standing by him. The administration is standing by him. They were trying to turn a page here today to get onto the immigration talk and now weve got this back and forth on twitter between the president and the Senate Minority leader. Trish. Trish im sure Chuck Schumer eats this up. As reported, is reaccusing himself from the russian probe. The democrats smell blood and this is their new person to attack. Joining me right now on all of it, former independent counsel michael and jordan from the American Center for law and justice. Good to have both of you here. Im going to start with you, jordan, is this just a political witch hunt which one side is not going to give up . Absolutely, trish, and i think that Jeff Sessions, you know, mike flynn, Jeff Sessions, you already saw keith tweet about another cabinet official, the commerce secretary. If you are a trump official right now, you need to be on notice. I think this white house needs to be very prepared. Starting with the president but his whole team to come under this kind of attack. Its not even over for Jeff Sessions. I think that the sharks smell the blood theyre in the water and while the democrats may not have had political success at the ballot box, theyre able to rally around these issues and really stall the agenda items, as that report was just talking about. Were not getting to the real issues in policy and what were doing is responding to the issue of the moment. Not even of the week because we have the joint address this week, trish, and were not talking about it by the end of the week. Trish well, it is kind of coincidental; right . He has a really good speech. Sure. Trish perhaps the best of his political career and then all of a sudden this stuff starts to unravel. Let me go to you for a moment, michael, and just sort of get a sense of whether you think theres anything there. Is this all innuendo, is this speculation . Or is there something more to this, michael . Well, the reality is of course, trish, that we dont even know. And thats the point that the democrats are trying to make. And its worst. What this is about is russian interference with american political election with russia trying to destabilize europe. With russia trying to drive a wedge between the United States and its nato allies. So at its worst, this is a big story in geopolitical terms. Jeff sessions, whether he told the truth or didnt tell the truth, you know, thats a political inside the beltway sort of issue, which will work its way through the process. But this is not what the democrats are most with. Trish if he did or didnt tell the truth. Look, thats a pretty if he didnt tell the truth, if he actually did have relationships with russians that were trying to sabotage Hillary Clintons campaign, thats not good. Like, none of us should want that. The democrats shouldnt want that. That is bad for the country. And suggesting that we now have the obama officials getting to investigate this because of Jeff Sessions recusal so early on in this administration and this issue, he doesnt have his Deputy Attorney general confirmed yet. The acting deputy ag, this was u. S. Attorney promoted by president obama who went after the governor of virginia, republican governor of virginia and when he lost at the Supreme Court tried to get loretta lynch, the former attorney general to retry the governor of virginia. Now youve got the obama officials in charge of the investigation of a campaign we know they didnt like. Trish meanwhile lets not foet hang on, guys. Weve also been reporting he on fox that his soninlaw, trumps soninlaw actually participating in some meetings with the Russian Ambassador at the convention. So what do you make of that one, michael . How should people be adding all of this up right now . And as i said to be talking about potentially what the democrats are talking about, thats scary stuff. Well, thats right. And thats why i think that in the interest of the United States, leaving aside partisan politics. In the interest of the United States, a bipartisan 9 11type commission that holds public hearings. Not the intelligence committee, which holds its hearings in private. But a bipartisan public hearing coupled with a special prosecutor so that you do away with this issue of whether or not a democratic Deputy Attorney general is looking into it. And hes not going to be there along the president has his candidate up for nomination in two days. So i think to put it aside, to see what there is any there, the best thing for republicans and democrats is this 9 11 styled public partisan hearing and a special prosecutor to look at whether or not Jeff Sessions lied or criminal activity took place. That is a distraction. Trish i was going to say. I kind of prefer in some ways this be behind closed doors. The bottom line is we dont know a whole lot right now andyt it speculating about it. Youve got democrats salivating here at the idea that maybe there was something inappropriate. Lets all hope theres not because as i said, thats bad for the country and in many ways, jordan, youve got a very good point. It would be destructive to do this in such a public forum. They have to get to the bottom of it. They absolutely should. However, i dont like all of these dribs and drabs and leaks and speculation because we dont know what happened. And until we did, this is not something that should be so publicly discussed. Anyway, michael, jordan, good to see you guys. Thank you very much. Thank you. Trish President Trump participating in a listening session with teachers and parents any minute now in florida from the start of the campaign, the president has been pushing for School Choice, which he says is right for all americans. People should have the opportunity for their children that they deserve. Watch him here. Trump education is the civil rights issue of our time. I am calling upon members of both parties to pass an Education Bill that funds School Choice for disadvantaged youth, including millions of africanamerican and latino children. [applause] these families should be free to choose the public, private, charter, magnet, religious, or homeschool that is right for them. Trish sounds good; right . I mean, shouldnt you be able to choose the school that is best for you . And, by the way, hes got a point. This is the civil rights issue of our time. Every child deserves a chance of good education. But, you know, the unions hate this idea. Here to explain why School Choice really does work. Weve got tim phillips, president of americans for prosperity. Tim, good to see you again. You know, one thing every parent hopes is that their child will be able to do better than them. Right. Trish and a big part of that in this country is the education you receive. You live here in new york city. Good luck. Good luck on that Public School system. Youve got Public Schools in this city that are graduating kids from high school that cant read and cannot write. Dont those parents deserve a chance, regardless of their lack of funding to be able to send their kid to a good school . They absolutely do. We have seen more and more of a twotiered society in this country. Kids who can get a good education and good schools, they live the american dream. But a lot of kids from disadvantaged backgrounds, theyre stuck and failing schools. These unions battle any move to give them choices. I plaud trump on this and betsy devos as education secretary, she spent her adult life trying to give disadvantaged children a chance to make it by having a good school. Studies show this consistently, trish, that when you give parents choices, they know their kids better than the schools do; right . They know better than some trish its wild; right . To think that you can work as a teacher and, you know, as long as you show up. Right. Trish you get basically a guaranteed job for life and benefits to boot and a pension plan, and you name it. That wouldnt fly anywhere else. Certainly not in the private sector. It sure wouldnt. And too often these kids are trapped. They cant get out. Its interesting when these unions are blocking betsy devos from going into that Public School. You covered that. The irony is theyre also trying to block millions of kids from getting out of those failing Public Schools. Trump is onto something here. I hope he drives this so hard as a chance for millions of kids to actuly live th american dream. And these studies that show one of the key findings they find is that you can move quickly to take children who have been languishing for years within a year or two in a School Choice program,. Trish its amazing. Much, much more opportunity. Heres the thing. Politically speaking, a lot of democrats in some ways i think they dont want to see some of these communities succeed. These inner city communities. Because if trump comes in, introduces School Choice, you start to see some upward mobility because these kids finally get a shot in life, what happens to their Political Base . This is something where the democrats are conflicted. A lot of these elected officials who claim they want to help children, they actually want to keep them locked in these Union Schools because you and i both know the teacher unions are one of the biggest financial contributors to liberal and democratic causes and also the biggest contributor of people. Troops that go out and knock on doors and make phone calls and win elections. But lets make them make that choice. Lets have these democratic members in big cities have to choose between parents and kids in their district and helping them with School Choice or sticking with the unions. I think theyll pick the kids if we shine a light on it. Keep doing it, trish. Trish all right. A new report out showing just how bias the Mainstream Media is when it comes to President Trump. The data on this. It is going to positively shock you. Weve got it for you right after this. Why pause a spontaneous moment . Cialis for daily use treats ed and the urinary symptoms of bph. 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What about you . 88 . Ill give you one better number. Trish what . Media tenor. Theyre nonpartisan but they did an analysis of 370 stories on the cbs evening news and the nbc nightly news. 370. Trish okay. Out of those, 370, 11 were positive towards donald trump. Think about that. 97 out of 100 stories are negative. So then i talked to some people. But, yeah, trump had a bumpy first month. Yeah, i cant argue about that. But youre going to tell me 97 out of 100 bumpy . No. 60 40, ill give you that. Trish what is that . Is that just the bias of these media reporters in general and people are coming at a story from a particular point of view and thats just getting articulated more and more it used to be in the old days you would pretend; right . That youre do not middle. And now it seems as though places like these broadcast networks arent even pretending anymore. Its a reflex to the negative. You see something negative on trump, you report it. Nbc annuals wall street journal poll says that trump is at 44 approved, 48 disapproved. Historically thats the lowest of any new president in history. So that dominates headlines. But the poll doesnt consist of one question. It has several questions. Including do you think the economy will get better or worse under donald trump . 20point game. 77 say better or the same. 21 worse. Does that get reported . No. Your viewers are probably, like, thats the first time ive heard that. Trish thats a good point because theyre very selective what they put out there. Right track, wrong track. Same poll. 18 say were on the right track. This poll last weekend 40 . The number more than doubles. If im a producer, im an editor. We say, yeah, we lead with approval, i wanted to have because thats the bigger number. But the smaller numbers, like were on a business network; right . When you vote, you vote on economy. And if 41 think the economy is Getting Better and wall street is performing the way it is. Trish by the way, this is why i said from the very beginning dont count him out. People believe he has an expertise that the other candidates dont have when it comes to the economy and at the end of the day guess what . You vote your pocketbook because you want security. Economic security for yourself, for your family, for your future. And elections are decided on that, joe. Exactly. Let me give you the biggest story of his first month that everybody missed. Everybody. Signed an executive order. Tpp. Were withdrawing; right . Trish right. You know who loves that more than anybody . Unions. Trish unions. Richard loves that. Trish quite positive on that. But youre saying it didnt get enough coverage . It got no coverage. Trish it did here, by the way. Okay. Good. Jimmy jr. Says i love what hes doing on tp. Im not here rahrahing trump. Im saying that was his economic message. If he coops Union Support in places like michigan, pennsylvania, ohio, wisconsin, tell me how any democrat who runs can win an election without those formally blue wall states . It cant be done. Thats your story, trish. Trish absolutely. Well, weve said this all along right here on this network the economy would decide it all, and she did not care about those Union Workers in the rust belt of america and there you go. Actions speak louder than words. Never went to wisconsin, Hillary Clinton, probably cost her the election. Trish thank you very much. Really horrific case here in suburb new york showing just how desperately we may need those borders enforced. A crackdown on illegal aliens. Ten vicious members of a gang indicted for a wave of violence, including the murder of two teenage girls. 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