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One doesn’t need the memory of an elephant to recall when politics didn’t drive decisions in the United States Department of Justice. Think back to former U.S. Attorney Jeff Sessions’ principled decision to recuse himself from participating in the investigation into the Trump campaign’s involvement with Russian agents. Sessions made this decision, knowing that it would likely infuriate President Trump because he took to heart his oath to defend the Constitution and the laws of the United States. Session understood that it was not in the job description of attorney general ...

Donald trump believes it's his right to order investigations into anything. me spent all of jeff session's term as attorney general tweeting about what and who to investigate. the current attorney general william barr seems to be going along with it. the attorney general of the united states must be an independent guarantor of some foreign vehicle to justice that does not submit to the political wlems of the man in power. but william barr appears to have been corrupted and that is the true danger here. i'm joined by michael, now a senior fellow for the center of american progress. someone who ...

Donald trump believes it's his right to order investigations into anything. me spent all of jeff session's term as attorney general tweeting about what and who to investigate. the current attorney general william barr seems to be going along with it. the attorney general of the united states must be an independent guarantor of some foreign vehicle to justice that does not submit to the political wlems of the man in power. but william barr appears to have been corrupted and that is the true danger here. i'm joined by michael, now a senior fellow for the center of american progress. someone who ...

Said she would not. she said she would report it to the fbi. if i thought it was legitimate enough to have our law enforcement dedicate their time to it. additionally hicks said she was very surprised to learn there were over 100 contacts between the trump campaign and people connect ted to the russian government but hicks was repeatedly blocked from discussing the president's obstructive behavior. she also did not address michael flynn's resignation, jeff session's recusal, james comey's firing or the president's attempt to remove robert mueller as special counsel himself. i'm joined by cynth...

The house has asked whitaker more questions about this. we'll see if he ever responds. >> so here's a question. what's the implication of this? it didn't happen, right? the president asked for it to happen. what's the implication as to why it didn't happen? >> well, i don't know what the implication about why it didn't happen is. i think what it does show is there are certain constraints at the justice department that are operating free or independently of the wishes and desires of the president. it's an incredibly unique situation to watch the justice department function under trump as he tri...