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Conversations privately. i'm at the white house for most of the day. i have some of these conversations privately, too. i want your take right now on what you hear from the people in and around the president, not just in the west wing but in his orbit about the depth of their concern about what he's doing vis-a-vis the russia investigation right now. hiring a guy who's claiming -- who spouts off conspiracy theories, some fear that he might be interested in getting rid of rod rosenstein who we've read that he believes is sort of engaged in mischief as well. what do you hear? >> well, i think th...

Between russian officials and trump officials. >> that wasn't the whole truth. after all the talk about michael flynn making false statements to pence, there is a question about whether bob mueller cares about that statement which mike pence made to the world. with me now, the former federal prosecutor. will bob mueller care about this? >> well, he certainly will. i think he will carry about what the president discussed with mike pence. particularly after he had that explosive conversation with pence and others. i think don mcafghganncgann, wh found out that sessions had recused himself and mu...

Do. it was clearly the appropriate thing to do. >> ironically rudy guiliani and newt gingrich, others who he might put in would also have to recuse. >> i don't see why there would be a distinction there. you know, they worked personally on the campaign, they were campaign surrogates. and if the investigation, as, you know, we now know it does, involves then candidate trump's campaign, i think they would be under the ethics rules required to recuse. >> what if he tries to get rid of mueller or fire sessions, put in an appointee who doesn't require confirmation as a recess appointee? there are w...

I mean, this whole mess sounds -- it tells a truck load about the president's character. for one, his weakness, his lack of backbone. if he wants to fire sessions, man up and fire sessions. don't just stick around and taunt the man on twitter like you're trying to be a playground bully and you're not tough enough to do anything about it. second, it tells us a lot about his ethics. what is the president hiding that he feels like he has to rig the system for investigators not to find, and why does he feel he has to go around the system to do it? >> jon: the notion of him firing sessions, it does...

Temp then they come together and get the job done. this is part of the process, they are taking tonight. we hope we can pass and we can move forward from here. >> martha: there's a number of fronts where it looks like the president is getting a lot of pushback. one of them is on this health care bill. another has to do with jeff sessions. lindsey graham, who i know has had a good relationship with the president over the course of the last several months, said in very strong language said it's the president tries to nudge sessions out or fire sessions, we are not going to move forward with any ...