Procedure to remove a blood clot from above his left eye. It revealed he has giablastoma. His doctors say the senator is recovering from surgery well and his Underlying Health is said to be excellent. Joe, your thoughts . John mccain obviously a giant in washington, d. C. But hes been a giant in American Life for a very long time and he served his entire adult life for the United States people in vietnam and being a prisoner of war, someone who was allowed by the north vietnamese to leave because his father was a powerful add mir in the u. S. Navy but john mccain refused and said he wasnt going to go until all of his men came home with him. He did come home physically broken but mentally and spiritually tougher then ever. He was a fighter his entire life, a fighter when he was with the rag va reagan administration. Im not so sure that the most important work hes done hasnt been over the last six months when hes been fighting to uphold the basic tenets of u. S. Democracy, championing checks and balances and making sure senators were reminded every day who our friend were and who our enemies were. When i went to talk to him in february, he showed me pictures of dissidents who were assassinated by Vladimir Putin. He is a voice that we desperately need in the senate and this country now more than ever. Youve spent a lot of time talking to john mccain. Tell us your thoughts, mike. Joe, what you just referred to is called character. And theres a lot less of character than there use to be be in the United States senate. John mccain has always symbolized character and honor. Ive been fortunate to spend a will the of time with him over the years, ive been to the hanoi hilton and stood where he spent seven years as a prisoner of war. My memory of covering politics and Political Campaign stretches a long way back. It would be hard to talk the winter when john mccain was running for office, heelect electrified. All of us, our thoughts and prayers are with him. He is an American Mobile man. A lot of people are retweeting the same video right now and thats the video that remind us of john mccains characterism. When someone started to question barack obama as patriotism and faith in the 2008 campaign, john mccain went over and politpolit said barack obama is a good man, a good father, we just have different views of governing and thats why im running. My god, what we would do to have a leader like that in the white house today. All of us are thinking about the senator and his family. Pretty simple for me. Anyone who knows john mccain, who has the privilege to spend time with him has always found it to the one the greatest experiences you can have. I have to say as i suggested and as mike suggested, that campaign he waged in 99 and 2000 and fell short was one of the most remarkable times i have spent covering anybody. And he has shown people by example what it like to be a patriot, what it like to be someone who works hard and were all competent if anyone can beat this horrible disease, its john mccain. Were all praying. Now to the interview the president gave to the New York Times and the message to the department of justice. Trump expressed disappointment in his attorney general, Jeff Sessions. Sessions gets the job. Right after he gets the job, he recuses himself. Was that a mistake . Well, sessions should have never recused himself. And if he was going to recuse himself, he should have told me before he took the job and i would have picked somebody else. Michael schmidt, give us some context to this. Seems like he regrets hiring sessions . It seems that it has cast a shadow over him, the problem he has with mueller staring him down and he looks back at sessions, one of his early supporters, as one of the things that really bothers him. Hes very upset about this and about the muller investigation and he thinks a lot of things could have been done about this. He believes hes his best spokesman on this. He was really pushing this issue yesterday. I think hes very upset with Rod Rosenstein, he comes in and points mueller. So hes clearly frustrated by this. The interesting thing is what does this mean for . Sessions will now have to go out and act as the attorney general knowing that the president basically doesnt want him there. And jim, you look at the came of Rod Rosenstein and more specifically the case of Jeff Sessions, here is a guy that donald trump and the entire Trump Campaign would tell you every day this is the greatest guy in the world, this is the smartest man weve ever met, theyd go on and on. But they dont obviously donald trump doesnt understand the concept of conflicts of interest. I guess his entire life is testimony to that. But he doesnt understand what is so basic to everybody else th thats been in the law or been in government before, that if you have a conflict, if your integrity may be called into question in an investigation, theres only one thing to do, recuse yourself and yet donald trump sees that act of character as a disqualification. He sees it as weakness. Hes been frustrated with sessions for some time. He thought he was weak. He thought that he recused himself, bowed to political pressure and put him in a jam. Its the trump definition of loyalty. In the minute that he felt he was disloyal, he did want him out. Hes made it clear hes dissatisfied with his performance. Hes never going to blame himself. Mueller is not just digging in to obstruction of justice. Hes not just looking at russia. In that interview with New York Times, he knows hes going to start digging in to his business dealings. He sees sessions as being weak and putting him in that position. Other than ivanka, theres not a Single Person i can think of that he has not said publicly or priva privately that hes dissatisfied with. Theres nobody around him that he feels close to, who that himse himself. In the New York Times interview, the president also had a warning for special Counsel Robert Mueller saying there are areas that shoud be off limits to the former dire direct fbi directors examination. The president said he has not done business in russia other than the Miss Universe pageant, but asked again if he would fire mule fer he went outside of what his charge is, trump responded i cant answer that question because i dont think its going to happen. Joe. I mean, donald trump is saying the only business ties that he has with russia for the Miss Universe pageant, yet his sons prove to be. Eric trump in an interview talking about investment and golf courses said russians love investing in their golf courses. Its crazy saying the Miss Universe pageant is the on question theyve had. Is it donald trump that doesnt know how washington works but hasnt been looking at history for the 71 years that hes been on this planet . Spiro agony want run out of office because of watergate. They started to investigate and found high had been paying the taxes he was supposed to pay. We dont even have to talk about bill clinton. We know where that investigation ended up. And right here bob mueller is into the going to put walls up around all these different areas of inquiry. You raise a good point. What happens with the special counsel is they turn over every rock and look at everything. What we dont want to happen is that they closed up shop and then it turns out theres something that they missed. What became clear yesterday from our interview was trump is hes watching very closely. He believes thats what it is. But if mueller is going to step outside those lanes, thats what trump considered he called it a violation. And he said it was a red line. So if youre trump, youre closely watching mueller, seeing what hes doing but at the same time you see mueller hiring folks that trump thinks have expertise in areas that areout side of the russian meddling. He looks at mueller, hes concerned about muter. This is your obsession. Kristen, hes attacking the attorney general, attacking the Deputy Attorney general, atta attacking comey and now hes attacking bob mueller. Its almost as if donald trump finally, finally six months. Well, donald trump always trying to run the strategy of saying whoever his enemies, discrediting them as much as possible early on so that if or when that immediate wins he can immediately believing its invalid a. This is not the first time those in trumps orbit tried to discredit trump. I remember a fire pack conferring the young conservative fire brand where she mispronounce is his horrible a lot and talks about how many conflicts of interest there are. This interview is just the latest in a series of things hes doing to try to make the case that anything that comes out of this investigation will be illegitimate. I dont know if thats because he expect there is will be something that comes out of this investigation. But its not a new strategy and it not even in the interview, he knows something bad is come he knows. He knows. It like at the end of billions, they talk about pulling on that led. He knows can cant pull on that thread too hard or Everything Else ushs happen be. You look at the poll numbers and even republicans suggest that he stay away from attacking bob mueller. How effective do you think an allout war against Robert Mueller, the fbi director that got us through september 11th would be . I think theyre one of the most remarkable interviews with any president ive ever read, for a lot of reasons. And i wonder if theres any method to what he did in this interview, if theres anything he was thiing about, if he said if i said this, its going to improve my life kaylee i think there isly downof that, which i think is him drawing this line and saying this investigation shouldnt go on with his poll now. The question was was he venting or does he have some threedimensional view of his chest thats not anding out yet. I think one of the best tweets in the past month has been that perhaps hes playing four dimensional hungry, ungri hip hippoand those of you who were subjected of the investigation are. Lets forget the legal side of this for a second and just look at the political side. If youre Mitch Mcconnell oh, my god. If youre republican senators, if you are paul ryan, if youre republican members of the house, if youre actually somebody thats running a hospital in Rural America in, oh, i dont know, lets say in rome, georgia and youre trying to figure out how you continue to take care of the elderly or if youre running a nursing home in peoria, illinois and you dont know how youre going to take care that people have dementia in your nursing home . There are people in the senate and house who desperately know they need to pass a Health Care Reform bill. What are you thinking this morning as you see this bizarre ram blink interview that donald trump gives to the New York Times . I mean, just put a camera on his lawyers, watching that. Can you imagine . We havent even scratched the surface including one at that he says ps also, his current take on napoleon and at that even prp and rand paul will be our guest coming up. Youre watching morningio owe o. 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Tylenol® yeah, and i can watch thee bgame with directv now. . Oh, sorry, most broadcast and sports channels arent included. And you can only stream on two devices at once. This is fun, were having fun. Yeah, we are. No, youre not jimmy. Dont let directv now limit your entertainment. Xfinity gives you more to stream to more screens. More now from the New York Times interview, and this is stunning. The president looked to put to rest the questions surrounding his second discussion with Vladimir Putin at the g20 dinner. It came to light that the two leaders met and that the president was not staffed by any american personnel. Shes sitting next to putin and somebody else. And thats the way it is. So toward dessert i went down just to say hello to melania and while i was there i said hello to putin, really pleasantries more than anything else. Actually, it was interesting, we talked about adoption, russian adoption. It was interesting because he ended that years ago. It was interesting because that was a part of a conversation that don had in a meeting and most other people call up and say, by the way, we have information on your opponent. I was just with a lot of people, they say who are you taking a meeting with . Um, i just dont know really where to start right there. I think all the people that were in the meeting, mike schmidt, should be asked whether they told donald trump they would have taken meeting with russian Intelligence Officers and with two russian interpreters in the room. Thats remarkable, which is going to lead and should lead to a flurry of followup questions to see whether donald trump was telling the truth or not there but also adoption issue. This meeting with Vladimir Putin, this meeting that he said was 15 minutes, others suggested it might have lasted close to an hour. He said they talked about adoption. That was actually the day before donald trump signed off on something that later was disproven. That was a statement that that was what don jr. s meeting was about as well. We tried to press him as much as we could about what he talked to putin about and that was all that was said, this thing had come up with don jr. And the conversation just starts veering in Different Directions and all of a sudden he would try to move it back. So we sort of left there not having a full total understanding what the meeting with putin was about. So that was a bit frustrating. But as we went from there, the conversation went in Different Directions. What he is clearly irritated about are the stories about don jr. He was trying to use his meeting with the republican senators that afternoon to show that it wasnt a big deal, that this was just simply an information gathering meet that any politician would have taken, including his colleague he had had lunch with, the senators, and that this is just politics as normal. He said he did not know at the time, which he has said before, he did not know about the meeting but that if he had known, he probably would have said go ahead and do it. Mike barnicle, they got caught in a lie, the president of the United States and don jr. About what that meeting was about when they talked to the New York Times on saturday. That was a lie. It want about adoption. And why donald trump would stumble back into that mine field, oh, yeah, they talked about adoption, the same thing don jr. s meeting talked about. Its already been proven in don jr. s emails and everybody that was at the meeting and now everyone was add that meet, the members of the United States senate, whether they told the president it was a good idea in the middle of the campaign to get dirt from former russian Intelligence Officers and other who is proved to be agents from Vladimir Putins government. The interview is incredible. I dont think ive read an interview with a sitting president of the United States. Despite their great represeabil he was not under oath. If he was under oath with a skilled prosecutor, he would be in trouble. And the other thing is if listening to the president in the context of everythings that been going on for six months now, it seems like the white house is almost a man alone without any real friendships other than his family. Not just friendships. Hes a man alone without lawyers. Theres a reason he has tension with the white house counsel. Theres a reason he has tension with his personal attorney. Because he does interviews like this. Theres no lawyer in a america who would consult a client to go out and freelance on a topic, on a sprawling investigation. Thats why when you talk to anyone in the white house, the reason he does those things in the interview is they do think somethings going to happen. Theres nobody around donald trump today, other than maybe his daughter, who doesnt think this results in charges against. And he knows that and hes worried about that. And he thinks he can talk his way out of anything. And he does have this ability to believe his own reality. He fees that the russians didnt interfere in the election. He thinks it was fake news. It doesnt matter what his advisers or lawyers tell him, its what he thinks. He believes his guts in negotiations in the situation is better than anyone elses. Well see. And if it goes on. Theres so much more here, i dont even know what to think. The president reflected on napoleon bone part the president said, well, napoleon finished a little bit ahead but i asked that. He said he did so many things, even beyond. The his one problem