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The president is a businessman. he wants to work you and cater to you which is how he does business. in terms of the leak, think about it. the highest level of security clearance of these people were on that call. this is a very small group of people. to do that and have back stabbers at such a high level of the white house and the national security apparatus is so dangerous and so scary, it makes me understand why the president is constantly thinking about shifting personnel because he doesn't have a team together that he can trust. the team surrounding him is obviously trying to undermine hi...

>> shannon: major announcement just minutes away. attorney general jeff sessions will walk us through his latest efforts to plug intelligence leaks and to talk about prosecuting leakers. tom despres junior is a former assistant attorney general and kind enough to join us with legal expertise today. good to see you. the attorney general 11 bells if he is on time as we expect will tell us about what they're doing. stepping up prosecution. what can the doj do? >> they can start investigating and potentially prosecuting leaks but the thing is it's very hard to do. typically leakers don't leave fin...

I am shannon bream. attacking attorney general, jeff sessions saying he is taken very weak position on prosecuting leakers and hillary clinton. calling on lawmakers to come through on health care. last night, seeing if heads could roll inside his administration if they fail. >> you will get the boats. they better get them. he better get them. otherwise, they will say, you are fired. >> bill: that was in front of 47,000 boy scouts in west virginia. good morning. he was talking about secretary of health care. but what is happening with jeff sessions? >> it is becoming incredibly difficult to see...

She was found and arrested. according to prosecutors, she did admit to going ahead and leaking this information. we will hear more from her in court maybe later this week. >> yeah, absolutely. so, she is charged with breaking the law. >> right. >> from as clear cut as it appears to be and the fact that she's acknowledged this, seems to have admitted some fault here -- >> right. >> is it safe to say, mike, that this is not a unique prosecution that would be sought by a trump presidency, that this would be sought by any president, obama, keep going back? >> no, president obama and his administra...

I'm the political gatekeeper, not the person who should be involved in that conversation. >> president trump tweeted today, said the fbi's totally unable to stop the national security leakers who have have on u.s., find now. not only is it his prerogative, but the obama administration was very aggressive in prosecuting leakers, why shouldn't he be as well. . >> if there are leaks that gener jeopardize national security or operations in the field, that is true. i'm not sure the chief of staff calling the fbi calling to quash stories classifies as a classified matter or national security. we hav...