chairman of the traditions of the senate. i hope he stays because i think it s been a great chairman. i am saying on national television the obvious. jeff sessions and donald trump do not enjoy a healthy relationship. i m not blaming jeff sessions. i think he is highly ethical. i think he is very competent. but this is not working. at the end of the day, the people in the department of justice, the president deserves an attorney general that can that has his confidence. i m not suggesting that he fired jeff sessions because he s not a political hack. i am suggesting if he can t work with jeff sessions, he has the right to pick somebody who is competent. the burden will be on the president. shannon: the next time you play golf which is probably soon, let us know if he has in the names. give us a list. we will see what he does. i hate that it came to this but it s pretty obvious to me something has got to give. shannon: senator, always great to have you with this. thanks for comi
do you think he thinks he has a pretty complete understanding, those meetings. congressman heck, or do you so i think especially if there think that he is really may have been things going on really doesn t know and is just trying to put a good face on it? that otherwise lawyers wouldn t well, probably more the do either, i could see that latter, erin. but here s the deal. if, in fact, the president gave michael cohen may have foreseen him a complete 100% readout on that there might be a time when he would want to protect that meeting, then it really himself. well, interesting. begs the question, why wasn t when you talk about bad memory the secretary of state in that in meetings, you ve got to meeting to begin with? wonder if that s what jim mattis because the fact of the matter, and mike pompeo are worried throughout all of history, that about, when they re getting is the norm, not the practical briefed by the president about of this president, which is to what happened with
a long standing relationship, which has been well reported, between ami, mr. pecker, and mr. trump, and in which they have helped each other from time to time, and both favoring mr. trump and killing other stories. what they did with the mcdougal story was they paid her 150,000 and then kill it had story and tried to tie her down with that contract. that s an abusive situation in which they said this is a story that s going to run. you don t pay $150,000 for a dog and then they didn t run it. the only person who profits from that is candidate trump. and so these conversations they did that in august. so these conversations in september only a month later seem to fit naturally with an ongoing scheme. should we now pay her directly? should we buy the rights to the story from ami or the enquirer? that shows a continuing knowledge of what s going on. all the denials by trump are after that. and megan speak to the point that michael cohen may have had
breakfast with cohen this morning, michael cohen knows a lot of people and he keeps telling everyone things making it seem like he s getting ready to cooperate. i believe at the end of the day michael cohen is going to do, i ve said this before, what you would do, what i would do, to do what s best for him and his family. i think whatever comes out involving michael will have to do with what with some stormy daniels things, possibly, perhaps there will be missing links to solve the problem with russia. are we seeing a kind of a rollout that lands with him testifying before bob mueller or before the sdny, and if so, do you find a way to get him in front of the congress if demes retake the house in the midterms? i suspect we are seeing that unless we re seeing the final begging for a pardon before the president with his testifying to mueller in the absence of that pardon. as to whether we ask for testimony, i think we would wait
indict anyone on the obstruction charge because otherwise rosenstein would have to recuse hi hymn. we have to turn to avenatti. this is involving has been president, michael cohen and current adult actress, stormy daniels. her attorney michael avenatti talked with our colleague last night about the trump tapes, how michael cohen may have recordings of president trump speaking about this. take a listen. you re calling these the trump tapes. that is very interesting. that s very exciting. but you don t, in fact, know whether donald trump is or is not on any of these tapes yet. i know for a fact that donald trump is on at least one of these recordings. i m not going to how do you know? i m not going to get into details of how i know. would you say that in court? absolutely. you re saying as a matter of fact you know that at least one occasion, he s ochbt tape? yes. and you know that because you ve heard that tape?