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President trump fired sally gates when she refused to send his travel ban executive order. after he fired her, he made dana boente the acting attorney general over the entire department because sessions hadn t yet been confirmed. in the months since then, he is also stepped in to be the number two guy at the department as a deputy attorney general, now he s running the national security division. he s really been part of every major justice department story, he knows how things work, any time there s a doj news story, boente is not far away, and his role in this leak probe is going to be very influential. molly: want to watch. some thing else to watch as this friday, the attorney general jeff sessions will give a press conference talking about the leak investigations. is this an effort or perhaps a way to get back in the president s good graces? it s a good question, murray reporting has shown that the justice department has been looking to do brought investigations four months, go ....
Praum problematic he faulted sessions for turning an easy question into a hard one at the senate confirmation hearing. it s a sentiment a fair number of critics agree with. he also said that if sessions hadn t recused himself there wouldn t have ended up being a special counsel, is that right. he did. a couple weeks ago the president s anger with sessions was really at the root of what he was saying had to do with other issues. he believed if sessions had not recused himself from russian there would be no rod rosenstein stepping up, no special counsel appointed. it is all the original sin from there. he was less about mueller but he was clear that he believed mueller had a number of conflict of interest one of which trump aides talked about for quite some time was that they say that ....
Quite some time. but it was a pretty remarkable statement for him to make on the record, for him to vent his ire that way and make clear that he considers what jeff sessions did, which was a recusal because he was concerned about a conflict, to be problematic. he faulted sessions for what he described as turning an easy question into a hard one at the senate confirmation hearing. actually a sentiment that a fair number of critics agree with. but it was a pretty remarkable statement. he also said if sessions hadn t recused himself there wouldn t have ended up being a special counsel, is that right? he did. baker and i wrote a couple of weeks ago that the president s anger with sessions was really at the root of what you were seeing about all the issues. that it all went back to sessions, that he believed if sessions had not recused himself from russia, there would be no rod rosenstein stepping up. there would be no special counsel appointed. ....
Of trump confidants that trump really thinks this was all put in motion, if sessions hadn t recused himself from the russia investigation, then rosenstein hadn t written the memo. if his aides wouldn t have leaned on the memo, then rosenstein wouldn t have been mad and he wouldn t have appointed bob mueller. to pull the string even further, there are far right media folks and at least one lawyer associated with the trump defense team sort of dissing mueller. i wonder if i guess my question is, is anything sacred with with this white house or are sessions and comey and mueller viewed as fair game? i think we ve seen that the president has set the tone that stuff that typically would not be viewed as fair game certainly is. you know, he likes this hand-to-hand combat. the white house has not been so organized on all of their war room strategy, but if there s one message that has been clear, it s the president is a fighter. if he feels he is under attack, ....
Meeting has happened which causes us to put a red flag up and say what do the snertsds know? why don t they send letters to the d.o.ful j. asking them. if they are going on a fishing expedition, then that is political malpractice on the democrats part. however, if they actually do know something they should come forward instead of trying to launlder it, it appears, through the department of justice. neata? i think from a an intelligence perspective, even if sessions hadn t scheduled this meeting, if he happened to run into kislyak, this is still something you would document and talk about. he didn t just run into the prime minister of the uk. it s an adversary we deal with very carefully from that perspective, you re very careful about what you discuss let alone disclose. richard, this all comes in the context of james comey. as you heard jessica report, ....