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Let me keep it a hundred. i'm not a big fan of sessions. when he does something that's concerning i don't want the credibility to be undermined when folks complain about it. >> laura, i want to give you the final thought. >> let's be clear. i'm not questioning rod rosenstein's ethics in the case. i'm questioning the ethics of someone trying to parse words on a highly ethical issue about whether or not he is limited to personnel issues or whether or not he had some part and was aware that his recommendation was going to form the basis of the president's decision to terminate based on the russia...

Question we are going to ask senator casey. senator casey, how far are democrats willing to go to press their demands for a special prosecutor? >> we've got to focus on this urgent issue, which means if we have to take steps to get the administration to focus on reporting a special council, i think it's necessary of them to do that. i asked them investigate the alleged lings between the trump campaign and the russian government before. but we keep hearing that they're not prepared to do that. 24 american people want answers, then this is one way to press them to do just that. >> so what are yo...

Russians. >> reporter: did you actually talk to him beforehand? >> no, not on the committee -- i'm not on the judiciary committee that does that. but i read the testimony and talked to others who were, particularly senator blumenthal, and said i couldn't go for it, because he had not in my view made it clear enough that he supported having a special prosecutor. well, times have now changed. now, it is the case the fbi director announced he had an active ongoing investigation and asked for help from the justice department for that, has been fired. and now it is clear. and i think that should be...

Puts a aderholt on it. what does this say to you about the underlying principle of this ban? >> well, you know, ultimately i think what's happened here is time after time in the court they're pushing back and saying that the constitution is something that you have to look at. and that was one of the points we actually made in court today is there a statement where donald trump talks about muslims are pouring into the country and syrian refugees are converting our children to isis. one of the statements he then made was i refuse to be politically correct. we're not actually criticizing trump fo...