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Callan, form "new york times" homicide prosecutor. okay alice, you have been talking to sources, i understand, inside the doj, how is sessions responding to these public calls for his ousting? >> he's not letting it deter from his day-to-day activities. he is focussed on the job at hand and continuing to execute the president's agenda. he has a high priority on dealing with immigration, certainly with the opioid crisis and others and those are going to be his top priorities. and certainly reducing violent crime. he is not distracted by any means by many in washington who are being encouraged b...

Really upset about that. he really thought that sessions betrayed him by not acting as a firewall between them, and he talked for a while. it was clear he was trying to push sessions out, shame him into quitting so he could replace him with a new attorney general who was not recused, who could then fire mueller. one of the ironies of that is that sessions has been one of the most effective cabinet members for trump in pushing trump-style agendas into the bureaucracy, whether it's cracking down on immigration or curtailing civil rights enforcement. nevertheless, as the mueller investigation con...

These firings, push sessions out, put a lackey in his place, somebody willing to fire mueller, i wonder if republicans would just go along with that because, again, if they could put in an ag who suddenly declared, we've investigated, we've found no wrongdoing, case closed, how would the washington media disentangle themselves from a new attorney general saying there's nothing there? >> listen, we had an e-mail that came out two weeks ago about that june 2016 meeting with donald trump jr., can jared kushner, paul manafort, top, most senior, most intimate advisers and it said they've colluded, ...

Where this could actually play into an obstruction issue, to be trying to push sessions out, which could lead to the firing of rod rosenstein, which could lead to a domino effect that would affect the mueller probe? >> well, i think that this theory is alive and well, and i think we're going to have to wait and see what mueller finds. but if i understand what mr. cohen has said, the president directed him to essentially commit a felony. and that's obstruction of justice. so we're going to have to wait and see. >> under the laws that now obtain, there doesn't necessarily have to be a hearing to...