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.
Axelrod comments on the implications of calls for Jeff Sessions' dismissal and its impact on the investigation.
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I do believe that you are elected not to advance the interest of your party but advance the interest of your country.
Trump sends out a tweet saying they ought to pass a clean CR with a debt ceiling -- raising the debt ceiling, because as Adam says, he doesn't want to be blamed for it.
I think there's a lot of concern among Republican officeholders. Governor Pawlenty could speak more readily to this than me.
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