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Playing that kind of game to the courts, good luck getting search warrant. >> it is an erosion of trust between the officers of the court and the attorney general and his staff. you have a piece on the national review on line. this is not the first time there is a breach of trust by eric holder with the public and with the congressional law makers before whom he testified. you take it all the way back to the confirmation testimony when he was confirmed in '09. viewers may know who mark rich is? >> mark rich was one of the ten most wanted fugitive. he was a tax cheat and et cetera, and he was s...

Race has something to do with it. i can't tell you how. we don't have any evidence. but trust us, race has something to do with it. the fact he's able to do this actually goes all the way back to clarence thomas stepping into the hearings. we were all there. we had no idea what i was going to say, how he was going to respond to this. the last thing most of us thought he was going to do is wrap himself up in a history of racial discrimination, of lynching, no less, when he'd been a person who had repudiated all of this discourse about discrimination. but, you know, nothing sort of breathes a ci...

Recollection. >> in her solicitor general testimony, her confirmation testimony for her current job, she was asked about one of these memos, and she said, i was just a 27-year-old pip-squeak when i was writing these. and i think that's an accurate description of most law clerks. they think they are more important than they are. but it's really the justices that make them important. >> they are after they leave. >> and when you're 27 years old, it's hard to actually think that someday one of your memos is going to be thrown back at you when you sit before the senate judiciary committee. to be c...

Above for his own sake that leads directly to an inference of corrupt intent and doesn't allow for the sorts of other inferences he could at least argue about for different conduct. >> john heilemann, we've noticed that jeff sessions has real friends among republicans in the senate. they certainly behaved that way during his confirmation. they got him through the challenges to his confirmation testimony, which some people thought included perjury. >> yep. >> and here is another piece of "the new york times" reporting tonight, which i think it contains a new fact that maybe we believed but did ...

Investigation ray recently fired fbi deputy director andrew mccabe over his comments about russia. sessions, you may remember, terminated mccabe friday. he sessions lawyer is denying there is or was in the investigation. plus, today, the current fbi director is weighing in on mccabe's firing. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge is on capitol hill with all the details. good evening. >> thank you, bret. the attorney general's personal lawyer told fox news that jeff jeff sessions is not under investigation for lying to congress, adding the office of special counsel told him, "afte...