Trump Talked To Sessions Aide About Replacing Him As Attorney General | The 11th Hour | MSNBC

According to a new Washington Post report, Pres. Trump talked to the Chief of Staff for Jeff Sessions about having him replace the attorney general. We discuss with Matt Zapotosky, Frank Figliuzzi, & David Jolly.

https://youtu.be/T3l56_lQfwk

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-talked-with-jeff-sessionss-own-chief-of-staff-about-replacing-him-as-attorney-general/2018/10/10/e010211c-ccc5-11e8-a3e6-44daa3d35ede_story.html?utm_term=.ca5f26589eee

Trump discussed swapping out Jeff Sessions with Sessions' chief of staff

October 10 at 6:27 PM

President Trump talked recently with Jeff Sessions’s own chief of staff about replacing Sessions as attorney general, according to people briefed on the conversation, signaling that the president remains keenly interested in ousting his top law enforcement official.

The conversation between Trump and Matthew G. Whitaker was somewhat nebulous, the people said. It was not clear, for example, whether Whitaker would take over on an interim basis or be nominated in a more permanent capacity, or how definitive the president’s intentions were.

On a long list of indignities that Sessions has endured from his boss, Trump’s discussing replacing him with his own top aide stands out. Trump has wanted to fire Sessions ever since he recused himself from what is now the special counsel’s investigation into whether Russia coordinated with the Trump campaign to influence the 2016 election. He has berated his attorney general publicly and privately, and recently told Hill.TV, “I don’t have an attorney general.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-talked-with-jeff-sessionss-own-chief-of-staff-about-replacing-him-as-attorney-general/2018/10/10/e010211c-ccc5-11e8-a3e6-44daa3d35ede_story.html?utm_term=.ca5f26589eee

Trust Sessions! (I hope)

Who's been putting NyQuil in the Night Shift Covfefe??

>>3436079

I hope so Anon! My wife thinks I'm driving the crazy train sticking up for him so much…

Must be todays talking points for Sessions, its everywhere.

I'm enjoying the show!

>>3436118

I totally agree Anon, that's what I see as the play book.

He's got the best reputation and I hope he lives up to it. Fingers crossed the stealthy mother of all bombs delivered buy a gnome will blow it all open.

>>3436480

For no paywall fags

Wednesday, October 10 2018, 6:48 PM

Rosenstein-McCabe feud dates back to angry standoff in front of Mueller

By Matt Zapotosky and Devlin Barrett,

Shortly after Robert S. Mueller III was appointed to investigate possible coordination between President Trump’s campaign and the Kremlin, he was drawn into a tense standoff in which Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein and then-acting FBI director Andrew McCabe each urged the other to step aside from the case, according to people familiar with the matter.

[…]

The contentious meeting between Mueller, Rosenstein and McCabe did not settle the public questions about who should or shouldn’t be involved in the Russia probe.

Some lawyers have argued that Rosenstein should have recused, given his central role in the Comey firing and conversations with White House officials leading up to that moment. Typically, Justice Department recusals are done at the recommendation of Justicthe Ddepartment’s ethics lawyers.

Rosenstein has remained the acting attorney general for the Russia probe, and people close to the case said that is in large part because Mueller is comfortable with that arrangement.

The Rosenstein-McCabe relationship has come under renewed scrutiny as lawmakers have demanded answers about memos written by McCabe and his ­then-senior counsel, FBI lawyer Lisa Page, about the discussions on May 16, 2017, in which McCabe wrote that Rosenstein suggested recording the president and discussed the 25th aAmendment.

Lawmakers had sought a private question-and-answer session with Rosenstein on the issue onto be held Thursday, but on Wednesday officials announced that the meeting had been postponed indefinitely. The session was to follow closely on the heels of news reports that a top FBI lawyer, James Baker, had been told of Rosenstein’s comments in real time and took them to be serious — though he was not present when they were made.

http://newsdiffs.org/diff/1891009/1891031/https%3A/www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/rosenstein-mccabe-feud-dates-back-to-angry-standoff-in-front-of-mueller/2018/10/10/8a7e99fe-ccac-11e8-a3e6-44daa3d35ede_story.html