Page 3 - Devils Advocate Question News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

>> this could have been handled in a different way. it's not good for the present, not good for the politics in general. >> jeff has been very loyal to the president and i think he deserves loyalty back. >> i would recommend against firing sessions. he was the first senator to support president trump. he stayed with president trump when he was ten points behind. >> i hope the attorney general doesn't resign. i hope he's not fired. if you look at so much of what the president of the united states wants to accomplish on his agenda, sessions is central to that. >> if president trump fires attorne...

Votes to pass. it didn't. we're expecting today they'll take a vote that will be an amendment, a clean repeal, leaders don't believe they have the votes for that either. they would need 50 votes. there's still this open question about what's going to happen next. it seems they're going to cobble together what they call a skinny repeal. the president just looking for a win. it's not clear how that is going to affect millions of americans. >> that's what john mccain was saying, we have to stop trying to win just for the sake of winning. >> i was really confused by senator mccain's actions yester...

Also the president's comments yesterday that he would have not hired him if he had just told him he was going to recuse himself from the russia investigation, which by the way russia was a big issue during the campaign, and the beginning of the presidency. the president certainly could have asked him that question but what do you make of the concept that he would have not hired him if he would choose to dot right thing in a situation like russia? >> jeff sessions was going to be a witness. he was going to be a witness in bob mueller's two principal investigations, the russia collusion investig...

That's what i think will block so there is a confirmation hearing at which i would expect republicans and democrats would raise tough questions about this ongoing russia investigation, about whether the next attorney general would agree to fire bob mueller, because i think that's what's really president trump's objective here is to put in place an attorney general who will fire bob mueller. >> you know, mark halperin, let me bring you in to ask the senator a question. before i do, i looked it up to see how jeff sessions did in 2008 because he got 97% of the vote in 2014, did not need donald tr...

Need to actually defend jeff sessions' recusal division here. >> i get it. >> they seem to be doing that. philip bump, there are a couple of things donald trump doesn't understand and they come together in jeff sessions. the first thing he didn't understand is somebody that has ethics, and independent ethical code that doesn't put donald trump at the center of their universe. the second thing he doesn't understand are people that don't need him for their survival, and we know that. he does not understand that you just don't need him. jeff sessions in 2014 when he ran for reelection not only a ...