Sessions Will Not Appoint Second Special Counsel | MTP Daily | MSNBC

The MTP Daily panels discusses whether Attorney General Jeff Sessions' job is in jeopardy and what his firing would mean for Trump.

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[HEllis-qunn]

Sessions is a monster but he has at times shown some sense of moral fiber and patriotism whereas Trump seriously has no real loyalty to the USA

[JETWTF]

A great leader surrounds himself with people that have opposing views, a terrible leader surrounds himself with Yes Men. A great leader listens to the opposing views before making a decision, A terrible leader makes decisions and the Yes Men praise the decisions. Great leaders want to be told by their closest staff that a decision is bad and be told why, terrible leaders want a Yes to every decision because they think that only they can make the right ones regardless of knowledge on the subject.

We do not have a great leader.

[pertyone]

It will be wonderful to see those gaudy gold curtains replaced with the traditional blue.

[AV-gzbu]

The strange moment when you feel sympathy for sessions..

[ParalysedGekko]

Keep in mind: it's possible that Sessions expects his replacement after this. A new Attorney General will not be recused from the Russian investigation and might therefore fire Mueller. PLEASE keep that in mind before applauding Sessions on this interesting move.

[bokani]

People, stop giving him ideas. He watches tv, you know.

[imtheboss]

Sessions might actually end up being the good guy. He knows so much and could bring TRump down. Maybe, just maybe, he has morals and will act on them, hopefully.

[vvMathematicalvv]

"I want a cabinet full of people who agree with me" - trump .... when really he shoud surround himself with many different views to see the clearest overall picture and make a responsible decision. Just another reason trump is a national security threat.

[Ashli-eshi]

No need to. He already has a top prosecutor investigating the FBI.

[bobshred]

The next time you break the law and a cop is arresting you just fore essentially what trump would be doing

[NeoRipshaft]

wait... why in the world are the comments acting as though sessions has done some moral act here... I mean why abandon what we already know to reach a contrary conclusion - the most likely explanation until demonstrated otherwise is that he's unable to appoint a special counsel, or there's a liability to appointing a special counsel for this task.

The reporters seem to be talking as though trump asked him to appoint a special counsel and he said "no, I'm not going to do that"... is there any reason to think this? I thought the news today was there was already a lower appointment working on this witch hunt - meaning that any claim about not appointing a special counsel at this point in time is not credible.

[samsonian]

One of the few things JB Sessions has done that I agree with. For all Sessions’ viewpoints Democrats disagree with he has certainly shown, for the first time in 14 or so months, true honor and commitment to the rule of law; not party politics. I can’t believe I’m saying this, but I agree with his latest moves.

[Chad-uncz]

Special Council will be too slow to get information out. Appt of a commission or fed judge will get info out quicker.

[keepmoving]

Equal Justice under the Law - it is written in stone. When this crumbles, so do checks and balances.

[joannemorris]

Way to go Jeff your doing the right thing.

[bobchannell]

I really like the elf like character they've created for Jeff Sessions on "Our Cartoon President".

[fofk]

"Precedent, " not "predicate."

[kumainu]

I hope Chump will fire Mueller very soon. :)

[de]

Sessions has been all about surviving as AG until Trump is out, figuring Pence will need to keep on some of the cabinet. It's why he recused himself immediately despite likely having little to do with the Russians. He saw there was shady stuff going on and wanted to distance himself.

[puntabachata]

Unlike that Devin Nunes clown, Sessions understands the word recusal. Although, he may not remember having done it 5 minutes from now