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Some say that you could stop all this by declassifying -- >> i could fire everybody right now. >> well, he didn't, quote, fire everybody right now but he did fire sessions or kelly fired him. as you know the president never seemed to be able to get over the fact sessions recused himself. matthew whittaker was a cnn legal commentator. here's what he said back in july of 2017. >> i could see a scenario where jeff sessions is replaced with a recess appointment and that attorney general doesn't fire bob mueller but he just reduces the budget so low that his an investigation grinds to almost a halt...

Just laid out that the special counsel is after. >> john heilemann, firing sessions, not surprising and potentially not politically perilous for the president. but naming whitaker could be like all things trump, the second half of the sentence that gets him in trouble. >> sure. although in some sense also not surprising, i think the thing so jarring -- what's jarring about this is not -- we've talked for months about the fact sessions is going to go some time after the midterms. it's that it happened today. >> right. >> and that, i -- something that did not surprise me. i think i said on the a...

President's constitutional authority. out here in flyover county we might call that sedition. >> i was going to say there was a lot wrapped up there. president trump doesn't like the fact sessions reaccused himself and doesn't have control over the russia investigation. it is actually not a definition of an attorney's success that a president is satisfied with their work. if it's working effectively there's a separation. and this is case where president trump is either confused about that or he just doesn't have respect for the rule of law. i think it's the latter, but it could be a combinatio...

Offenses. the decades old war on crime has failed abysmally, creating a system that cost the country $80 billion in a single year. but not attorney general jeff sessions. in fact sessions is introducing sentencing and drug directives that harken back to the worst days of the war on crime. he's even outmaneuvered the president's son-in-law jared kushner who's pushed for drug law reforms. the government in the netherlands close d -- the prisn population decreased by half in a decade, going from a peak of more than 20,000 in 2006, to

Least rogers went tine classified testimony but no indication that sessions is going to. >> in fact sessions was asked about that and no indication he was going to do that. they asked the justice department what is the precedent that he's questioning and they poented to 1982. one from president regan and the other from ted olsen who was then the ag for the office of legal counsel. but it was not something that sessions could site in the hearing and i think that you have this pattern here of sessions, according to our reporting, did not go to the white house and ask whether he should assert exe...