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Seemed pretty transparent, out there, recused himself immediately. and trump berating him and kind of holding his feet to the fire and you know, poor jeff sessions. that was really well-known, and this is an interesting take on this. >> it reminds me of the comey loyalty oath that president trump tried to give comey to give and back off the michael flynn investigation. both people he inherited and jeff sessions, someone who appointed himself. but it is interesting, kate, this whole story line, we leard things overtime and nuggets that don't come out. this is something that i imagine the trump ...

And session refused. and the confrontation is being investigated by special counsel mueller. that is fascinating. >> yes. how furious donald trump was about jeff session. >> and to openly discuss it. >> and then basically spending months torturing the guy. this is great reporting and it goes to how president trump was very much trying to use whatever word you want, but at least very much like influence or strong arm his on attorney general into not recusing himself to the point that he knew what would be coming down the line to the possibility of a special counsel getting appointed. i am offer...

Despite the president's claims, he is responsible for these separations. it is part of attorney general jeff session's plan to prosecuter 100% of people who are crossing the border illegally. as the parents are detained, they're separated from their children and this includes potential asylum seekers and undocumented workers. john kelly admitted the purpose of the separations is to discourage illegal border crossings. he called family separation, quote, a tough deterrent. there's also a different issue at play here. what some are calling missing children. hhs officials confirmed the u.s. offic...

Jeff session and kirstjen nielsen have said about u.s. policy about how immigrants that cross into the united states illegally will be apprehended, even if they have children with them. this goes back to the critical testimony that the man that runs this part of the program gave. >> reporter: it really does. and it begs the question, if the united states plans to separate parents from their children, will they be able to take care of them and will they be able to track them and during this testimony, when that question was asked, will they do anything to track these children, the answer was no...

Health and human services. and it happens to be that in december they checked on 7600 of those children. and they couldn't account for 1500. so we're asking more questions, poppy, because so did they check on the other children, the other tens of houses of children? have they checked? are those children accounted for or not? we're still asking all of those questions. what hhs did tell us is once a child is placed in a home with a sponsor, so this is a parent or a relative, then they say, quote, he or she seizes to be in the custody of the united states government and all hhs provided subsisten...