Washington veterans agree that no president has ever attacked his own Attorney General the way Donald Trump has gone after Jeff Sessions. One former Senate colleague predicts "holy hell to pay" if Trump fires the nation's top law enforcement officer. Meantime, the new communications director says he and the chief of staff are "brothers"… like Cain and Abel, suggesting one won't survive. Early in the President's term, is he heading for a "constitutional crisis?"
Chaos and rivalries in the White House and the cabinet
More
- New Yorker on Scaramucci's attack on WH leakers, Reince Priebus, Steve Bannon
- Luce on Trump, Sessions and America's looming constitutional crisis
- Bauer on a 'beleaguered' Justice Department under the Trump presidency
- French's call for Sessions not to resign
- Painter's 'Getting the Government America Deserves: How Ethics Reform Can Make a Difference'
Credits
Guests:
- Ed Luce - Financial Times - @EdwardGLuce
- Bob Bauer - New York University Law School
- David French - Columnist, The Dispatch and Time magazine - @DavidAFrench
- Richard Painter - University of Minnesota - @RWPUSA