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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20180829:00:26:00

An investigation, which frankly, any responsible member of the bar would have done, seems to be what got jeff sessions in big trouble. and it s unfortunate that a former close colleague on the senate judiciary like senator graham, who has worked with senator sessions for something for the greater part of a decade, would be so quick to throw him under the bus here. well, and also, i mean, i think people haven t quite reckoned with how crazy things get if sessions goes. right. because the pathways go in a bunch of different directions. it could be a perfect consensus caretaker person put in that position that is uncontroversial. or it could be someone who very clearly is being put in with the job of shutting down the investigation, mimi. right, exactly. and that s where this whole, you know, this could be a sort of leg of obstruction comes in. that he wants to put someone in who s going to be, you know, in his words, loyal. but they re not supposed to be loyal to him as the per ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20180829:00:22:00

However, what we re hearing on the hill is that a lot of members of the senate, republicans in the senate, who had kind of been the wall against this kind of move, this kind of ouster by the president, that wall is crumbling. they are starting to prepare for what they believe is the ultimate eventuality, is that the president is going to boot his attorney general. it sounds like you ve got lots of quotes in that article from some interesting folks. lots of quotes from senators saying, he s going to do what he s going to do, and not sounding like they re going to sort of ride herd on this. but you ve also got rudy giuliani on the record telling you, we think we ve got him convinced not to do this. well, rudy said a slight differentiation of i would differentiate slightly. he basically said, look, we ve come to an agreement that this is not going to happen until the investigation is concluded. he doesn t want to go into the details of his conversation with the president, which i re ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20180829:00:21:00

President trump has privately revived the idea of firing jeff sessions this month, adding, quote, his attorneys concluded that they have persuaded him for now not to make such a move while the special counsel investigation of russian interference in the 2016 presidential campaign is ongoing. here with me now is one of the washington post reporters who broke that piece, msnbc contributor, carol lenig. carol, what s the context for the president bringing this up again? well, the president has been fuming, now we understand, since august 1st. you may remember a pretty interesting tweet. he tweelt scolded at his attorney general, the head of his justice department, that he should shut down the rigged witch hunt right away, in other words, the mueller probe. and now we know that he conferred with his attorneys, that he planned to and threatened to fire jeff sessions this month, more than once. and they have counseled him that that would be a terrible idea and believe that he has agreed ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20180829:00:23:00

Unprecedented that the president still wants to fire his attorney general, while he s under investigation for possibly trying to thwart the probe and now this is a move that could be viewed, as well, as another step, another, another leg of the stool of obstruction. all right. carol leonnig, as always, great reporting. thank you for joining me. thank you, chris. all right, i want to bring in msnbc legal analyst and former federal prosecutor, mimi rocah, and former deputy assistant attorney general, eliot williams, who was in the quote/unquote justice department. here s my first question. when carol says he consulted his attorneys, she does not mean don mcgahn, the white house counsel, the counsel to the president in his official capacity, she means his personal criminal attorneys, rudy giuliani and jay sekulow. that s a little odd, isn t it? that s a good point. this is about white house business affairs of state. right. ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20180829:00:33:00

Rico. up until this month, the official death count as a result of hurricane maria was 64 people. but according to a new study out today, commissioned by the puerto rican government, almost 3,000 people died in the five months after maria hit. the wildly understated death toll by this administration has not been the subject of any major staeustained congressiona investigation. and that also seems worthy of a little looking into. and now tonight, we have another scandal republicans may want to add to the list. it has to do with the president of the united states directly intervening with the development of the fbi building, which happens to sit across the street from the trump international hotel in d.c. joining me now to explain this, jonathan o connell, reporter at the washington post, who has been covering donald trump s interest, one might even say obsession, with the fbi building for years, has a new piece out this week on the subject, and ann wiseman, chief foia council is here. ....

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