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    Sessions is adjourned

    Jeff Sessions is out as President Trump’s attorney general.

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    By Josh Barro • Nov 9, 2018 • 21m Listen

    President Trump fired Jeff Sessions this week and named an acting replacement: Matt Whitaker. Whitaker was serving as Sessions’ chief of staff, but he was widely seen as a Trump loyalist — eyes and ears for the White House inside a Justice Department that wasn’t always doing what the president wanted. Now he’s running the place, but is it constitutional? Ken White joins the panel to discuss.

    The results are in from the 2018 midterm elections. The Democrats will take back the House and the Republicans maintain control of the Senate. Steve Kornacki, Astead Herndon, Jonathan Chait and Olivia Nuzzi joined the Left, Right & Center panel at a live post-midterms show to break down the results….and even talk a little about 2020.

    Photo credit: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters.

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      Josh Barro

      Former host of Left, Right & Center

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      Rich Lowry

      National Review / KCRW's Left, Right & Center

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      Ana Marie Cox

      political writer, host of “90 days with Ana Marie Cox” podcast

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      Sara Fay

      Former producer of Left, Right and Center

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      Producer, 'Left, Right and Center'

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      Production assistant, 'Left, Right & Center'

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      Ken White

      Brown, White & Osborn / Popehat

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      Steve Kornacki

      Salon.com

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      Astead Herndon

      national political reporter for the New York Times and host of the podcast “The Run-Up”

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