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Investigation. everyone agrees that was a correct decision, and trump's obsession with loyalty, as you pointed out, it was a big theme of his interactions with jim comey. this is why he's mad at sessions. mr. scaramucci, the new communications director said, you know, cabinet members have to have the president's back. no, not the attorney general. the attorney general's job is to be independent. the president doesn't get that. >> that's not how it went down, though. there's an important factual issue. it's not that jeff sessions realized this is taking place and i need to recuse myself. jeff s...

Hunt made it clear that sessions plans to move forward with his agenda in the department. he has no plans for resigning. while trump has discussed potential candidates to replace sessions, they have not settled on anyone. a number of senior aides including new communications director anthony scaramucci have urged president trump to sit down with sessions and work through their differences. there has been little enthusiasm for that suggestion. one informal advisor says there is another reason president trump has had to fire sessions. the president doesn't want to be seen as firing another law e...

Same things to say about him. when issues with russia came up, they were also quick to condemn him, so what do you make of the change of heart? >> i don't think there's been any change of heart. there are plenty of democrats who have been supported as attorney general. there is a difference of having an attorney general and having the president fire a guy so he could get to fire mueller. once the constitution is the rule of law and the other is a political fight for civil rights and other things so people like me disagree with sessions, i think the president has the right to fire sessions, but...

Thing, and make a decision about whether he wants his attorney general and make it public. >> i think the first reason is he wants to squash the russian investigation. he is positively obsessed with it as evidenced by his tweets and his actions. he would be better off letting us do the job. he should stop tweeting it. i guess his idea is if he fires sessions and puts in a lap dog, the lap dog fires rosen stein and mueller and either guts or ends the investigation into how the russians interfered in the democratic process. >> why doesn't he do that? just fire sessions. use the appointment in au...

Hillary clinton crimes, i want to bring in the former panel with us. the gang is all here. stanley, i'll start with you. give me your reaction. are you somebody who has been in the doj. what is your sense of what is happening over in that building dpimpb what we saw this morning from the president? >> well, i think they see the matter pretty much the way the president does, by that i mean the president's problem is not with jeff sessions as jeff session's lawyer, personal friend or attorney general for that matter, it is with jeff sessions as someone who cannot talk to mr. mueller, the special...