Just five days after the a. G. Recused himself from the investigation. So thats interesting timing, isnt it . And it raises new questions about why Jeff Sessions felt that he needed to recuse himself at all. We are also learning tonight that a judge in the Michael Flynn case is no longer on that case. Also tonight, brand new fallout in the media. Late today cnn was forced to walk back a story about donald trump jr. Earlier this week brian ross and abc had to do the same. In both stories it had to do with the timing and the details, which are important in these cases. And it all adds some fuel, you would say, to the fire in the white house argument that this whole thing is not a fair fight for them. So were going to get to that with the panel in just a moment. First, chief washington correspondent ed henry live at the white house with what happened today. Good evening, ed. Martha, good to see you. What a week has been both for behind up news stories that are putting President Trump in a negative light that turned out to be bogus on top of a series of stunning developments that suggest maybe people around the president are not getting a fair shake in the russia investigation. The latest example tonight, the judge overseeing the case involving retired general Michael Flynn has now recused himself from the matter without explanation. Court documents showing that judge rudolph contrars removed himself from the case only did so before he pleaded guilty for lying to the fbi. Raising questions about why he did not reveal that before happened. That move follows several other problems for special Counsel Robert Mueller this week. That increased concerns about whether the investigation is fair. New tonight, the wall street journal reporting that muellers top Deputy Andrew weissmann attended Hillary ClintonsElection Night party yes at the joint chief of staff vits center in new york. Remember earlier this week weissmann emailed then acting attorney general sally yates. Writing im in so proud and in awe thank you so much. All my deepest respects. On top of fbi agent peter strzok having to be pulled from muellers probe because he had sent Text Messages to his girlfriend that were antitrump and were cheerleading for Hillary Clinton. After strzok had served as lead agent in the clinton email probe and got then fbi director james comey to shift his summation from saying he was grossly negligent which hinted at crimes to the lenient extremely careless. Now we learned tonight despite several media reports earlier this year suggesting attorney general Jeff Sessions may have been in hot water for not revealing his contacts with the Russian Ambassador on an important security clearance form, an fbi email marked march 7th, that date was important shows sessions was under no obligation to reveal those contacts unless he quote developed personal relationships with ambassadors from russia or anywhere else. And heres why thats important. Just a few days earlier on march 2nd, Jeff Sessions put out a statement saying he was recusing himself from any investigations involving the 2016 campaign because of his role supporting President Trump. Now, the fbi email basically comes in five days later saying there was no problem with you failing to disclose this contact with the Russian Ambassador on this form. Remember, when sessions recused himself, that led to the appointment, yes, of robert mueller. Martha . Martha indeed it did. And, ed, you know, obviously thats something that the president has been upset about since it happened. Exactly. Martha it raises one question as the head of the department of justice, if he was considering recusing himself, based, you know, among other things on these meetings that he had because that had just been a big story, all that had come out and he felt, perhaps, it didnt look good for him. He had he had yeah. Martha why wouldnt somebody at the fbi had said we are working on this investigation, we dont really see any problem with those meetings just so you know before do you this. Right. In Jeff Sessions defense and why he recused himself he would probably argue because he has talked about this before because it wasnt just about that form the fbi was evaluating in terms of his security clearance. It was also his testimony before al franken and other members of the Senate Judiciary committee and whether he fully answered truthfully. There was a lot of pressure on Jeff Sessions. But if you are President Trump tonight and hearing that five days after your attorney general recused himself the fbi said well, that contact with a with the Russian Ambassador really wasnt that big of a deal, the anger that President Trump has had before about the recusal leading to the Mueller Appointment is only going to get a little hotter. Martha likely bubbling back up again. Ed henry tonight at the white house for us. Joining me now is karl rove former deputy chief of staff for president bush and Fox News Contributor. Adrienne elrod served as direct for the Hillary Hillary clinton president ial campaign. Thank you you both for being here. With regard to this cnn report, i just want to put up a statement from cnns brian stelter. He said that a cnn spokeswoman says there will be no disciplinary action in this case because, unlike brian ross, abc, mkraju followed the editorial standards process. Multiple sources provided him with the incorrect info. When you put these stories together this week, carl, what do they say about a propensity to jump to judgment without checking all the numbers and dates which are crucially important to the story . It shows the danger of trying to be in a rush to be the first. Cnn broke the story. It was then followed by cbs. And ironically enough, the media outlet that corrected them both and blew the whistle on this was the Washington Post which said you got the dates wrong. You are conflating this. Making it look like something its not. So its a problem in the media culture in which we live where everybody feels like they have got to be the first. Particularly if it sounds like its antitrump then some Media Outlets are quick to rush through it. It is an irony, cnn made the mistake. Cbs quickly followed. And the people who set them straight were the Washington Post. Martha brian ross got four week suspension without pay for his error. Cnn are not doing that they feel that their report was that they fixed it in time and thats going to be enough. Adrienne, when you look at that and look at the larger context of the stories that we have talked so much about this week with regard to the mueller team and their conflicts and, likewiseman, for example, who was at the Hillary Clinton party, which turned out to be not much of a party that night. And all of their obvious support for her, do you see that as a problem, as an american who wants to make sure that this is a fair system . Well, no. Absolutely. I mean, first of all, going back to what happened with cnn, it is critically important, there are so many moving parts in this investigation, its critically important that every media outlet make sure that they check all of the boxes, dot the is, cross the ts before they go up with some things there are s. A lot of competition out there and accuracy is incredibly important. Especially when were not even looking at this. At least in my view it shouldnt always be a democrat vs. Republican issue. We need to make sure that we as americans protect ourselves from ever being under the influence as an adversarial government again in terms of influencing our electoral process. Secondly, look, i mean therethereare a lot of moving pn the investigation. You see a lot of republicans now that praised mueller when he was initially appointed to oversee this investigation independently. And now people are saying oh, wait, we dont think he is fair. We think he is too biased when this is, again, another example of republicans trying to create chaos in a situation given the fact that mueller is getting closer and closer to determining the getting to the bottom of this investigation. Martha you know, its not so much about mueller, karl, as it was about the people he chose to put on this team. Everyone feels that you can feel however you want about candidates and how support, but it just raises the question if you feel that strongly, are you the right person for this investigation . Yeah. Look, i have confidence in bob mueller. Im one of those people who at the beginning complimented the choice. I still have confidence in him. But peter strzok removed in july. We find out about it in december. Bruce ohr removed in the Justice Department for having met with steele, the brit who was behind the socalled dossier. Andrew weissmann of the 15 attorneys that we know were involved in the mueller investigation, nine of them are political contributors and all of them are democrats. So, i thought kim strossel had a terrific column today in the wall street journal. And her recommendation was that in order to keep confidence, to build confidence in this investigation, mueller needed to have someone whose job it was to respond quickly to congressional requests for information. And make certain that when things like peter strzok happened in july, we dont find out about it in november. People in congress who are involved in these investigations find out about it contemporaneously. Can i correct one other thing though in the reporting that we have been talking about here in the recusal of Jeff Sessions . It is required by law in response to the appointment of Robert Kennedy by john kennedy as his attorney general and John Mitchell appointment, the Campaign Chairman for richard nixon, the federal statute requires that if a matter comes up involving the president ial campaign, and the attorney general had played a leading role in that campaign as an advisor or participant in the campaign, he must, as a matter of law, recuse himself and Jeff Sessions as the first republican senator to endorse trump and a senior stror President Trump had no other course of action available to him except to recuse him under the explicit federal statute governing these kinds of situations. Martha so you feel he made the right choice, given the fact that they were about to determine. These two things were unconnected. And knowing Jeff Sessions like i do, i would absolutely have total confidence in that there was never anything in his behavior that was incorrect. Adrienne, in terms of the ohr story this week. Just as one example of people who are close to the story, does it bother you to learn that he had meetings with glenn simpson, that he had meetings with Christopher Steele who came up with that dossier . Because one of the main questions that remains here is whether or not the dossier is the document that this investigation was hinged upon. Well, look, there is no proof out there that the dossier is why the fbi opened this investigation in the first place. The fbi opened this investigation because there were clear signs that russia was possibly colluding with the Trump Campaign to alter the elections results. Secondly, the does yarks i know there has been a lot of criticism, i understand that. But a lot of the information in the dossier is factbased. In my view, if anything in the dossier ultimately leads to determining what actually happened in the election to get to the bottom of what happened is a good thing. Martha karl rove and adrienne elrod, great to see both of you tonight. Thanks, martha. Martha so, we are looking live as we say in television at pensacola, florida where the president is about to come out and speak to the good folks there in a Campaign Style rally selling tax reform to america among other things. It comes as nearby alabama Embattled Senate candidate roy moore feeling vindicated tonight in some respects after one of his most vocal accusers has added to part of her story on inscription on yearbook. Our power panel chris stirewalt, guy benson marianne march here on that. More proof tonight that President Trump is making good on the promise to help the economy in the united states. Top white house official joins us on the just released jobs report. And what all this means for your bank accounts. The dow liked it today. Thats for sure. Plus the reason why a group of conservative students were kicked out of the campus coffee house. Wait until you see this video. Threatening. How . This is a community standard. You are wearing that violates. 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He will take the stage Campaign Style rally. They are getting the group all ready for his arrival there we will bring it it you when it happens. Seeing the airport where is he about to land. The alabama race is front and center. Can you see how close alabama and that part of florida are. That may be the reason for choosing that site this evening. Today, candidate roy moore hit back at one of the women accusing him of sexual misconduct. Beverly nelson has altered her story a bit about the much talked about yearbook inscription that was written decades ago. There was one line at the bottom, the date, and the location which she added later. So heres what the Moore Campaign had to say about that a short time ago. The truth is out there and until she releases the yearbook, all we know is they are not telling the truth and they have lied. Under the alabama pattern jury instructions, it says tells the jury that if you believe a witness has lied in anything, you can disregard everything they have said. Martha fox news peter doocy live in pensacola tonight. Hi, peter. Hi, martha. The Moore Campaign knows most of his backers are going to be with him no matter what. I have been texting back and forth with some moore advisors this evening who say what happened today goes a long way in helping them confirm what they have been trying to convince the public of. That this infamous yearbook inscription that one of his accusers says is the proof that moore pursued her when she was a young teen is not exactly what it seems. Nelson says she did make notes to the inscription but the message was all roy moore. Beverly, he signed your yearbook. Did he sign it. And you made some notes underneath . Yes. But his accusers attorney Gloria Al Redd now says her clients story is legitimate and she says she has proof. The expert conclud concludedt the signature in the handwritten notation on the signature on exhibits 1 and 2 were prepared by roy moore. We are very happy to be able to announce this important Expert Opinion regarding beverlys yearbook. I asked the Moore Campaign what it means for them now that this notorious yearbook inscription story has holes in it, and this is the response i got. Holes, i would say a surgery whether in whole or part is more like a crater. Judge moore has been vindicated feeling an Even Stronger get out the vote effort. I am now very confident in the victory. Galore allred, nodding in agreement everything written on that page was written by judge moore. Today, its a different story, isnt it . They are not saying that anymore. There are a lot of moore supporters here in pensacola tonight at the trump rally but he is not expected to appear with the president less than a half an hour away from the alabama border. Martha. Martha thank you, peter. Peter doocy. We will be back there shortly. Chris stirewalt joins me now fox News Politics editor. Political editor and Fox News Contributor marianne march, former Senior Advisor to former secretary of state john kerry. Great group. Thank you all for being here this evening. Thank you, martha. Martha your thoughts on what we where to see in pensacola tonight . Well, i think we will probably see classic trump. Classic campaign trump. He has been in this reasoning before. He has given speeches in mobile before. We will hear a lot about the great huge big, biggest bigly tax cuts we will hear about all of this stuff. What i dont know and this is the 64,000 question. Wi