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David Axelrod: “The irony of all of this is it comes on a day when two members of Congress called for Sessions to be dismissed, and, of…”

On the recordJanuary 3, 2018
The irony of all of this is it comes on a day when two members of Congress called for Sessions to be dismissed, and, of course, that's exactly what the president would want now because if he had an attorney general who wasn't involved in the campaign and wasn't involved in this Russia matter, then that attorney general would then take control of the investigation.
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David Axelrod
Democratic · Illinois

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Axelrod comments on the implications of calls for Jeff Sessions' dismissal and its impact on the investigation.

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