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Democratic party. why do it today? >> i think it's critical. this is all happening before the midterm elections, and that is important because warren wants to get out and inoculate herself against these charges, potential lines of attack in 2020, because we all know who work in politics and political media that as soon as the midterm elections pass, the national political spotlight is going to turn to those 2020 candidates and warren wants to be able to say, if and when she's attacked on these issues, look, i've already addressed that, put out my dna. the other point worth considering is that ...

Welcome back. we want to turn back to the top story of the evening. the three americans freed from north korea. joining us now bobby gosh. obviously a very significant moment but put in context with what we've seen in the past. skeptics may look at this and say this is not anything different than what we've seen over the past 20, 30 years of negotiations starting hostages taken, released. do you see something different this time around? >> this is wide regimes like north korea and iran take these hostages for precisely moments like this. they use them as bargaining chips so we shouldn't be sur...

Maybe there's wiggle room. it looks bad because of what trump has said in the past, pressuring and badgering sessions about recusing him on russia. >> it feels like you're possibly inviting the president to labby you. >> yeah. i mean, it's going to put sessions in an unbelievable uncomfortable position because i mean, donald trump we know he called cohen the next day. he's not going to be able to control himself from asking sessions what's going on. the other point worth making here is you know, now that this is in the southern district of new york, i realize this is an extremely high profile ...

He should recuse himself. he has a little wiggle room right now i think. you know, the problem with this is that so you know, he's not saying i'm not recusing myself forever as i understand it. i'm going by the reports. he's saying right now and i'll look at it later. maybe he's buying himself some time. maybe there's wiggle room. it looks bad because of what trump has said in the past, pressuring and badgering sessions about recusing him on russia. >> it feels like you're possibly inviting the president to labby you. >> yeah. i mean, it's going to put sessions in an unbelievable uncomfortable...

Not a surprise. the fact he released it in the mueller investigation in terms of the obstruction of justice probe and the fact comey is a key witness in that, is it appropriate for him to release the book now? >> i mean, you know, he's a pry rid citizen. he has first amendment rights. there is no legal bar to him doing it. he exposes himself to some criticism for his timing. you know, as u swn who is a book writer myself, the notion that he is, you know, the shocking thing that he's trying to get people to write by his book and trying to put interesting stuff in there so people will want to re...