jeff: world's oldest man. [laughter] jeff: that is a famous line i like. the real thing is, it will be whatever it is going to be. i will be proud of the things -- i live my life in such a way that when i in a quiet moment of reflection, thinking about on my life, i have as few regrets as possible. what will my legacy be? i have no idea. i do not even want to spend a lot of time thinking about it. david: do you intend to give away the bulk of your fortune at some point in your life? jeff: i don't know how much i will give away. i will give away a lot of money in a nonprofit model, but i will also invest a lot of money in something that any rational investor would say is a really bad investment, which is blue origin, but i think it is super important. if i cannot make blue origin a for-profit, maybe i will convert it to a nonprofit at some point in the future, but i would not want that. i would want it to be a thriving ecosystem like ups. david: let's close with your wife. we have not mentioned her. jeff: we met in new york city where we worked. we got enga

jeff: jeff hunt. lemonis: hi, jeff, how are you? are you the owner? jeff: yes, sir. lemonis: nice to meet you. jeff: my son, taylor. taylor: taylor. lemonis: taylor, how are you? taylor: doing well. nice to meet you, marcus. lemonis: you're looking sharp today. taylor: thanks. i dressed up. lemonis: this is interesting. i wanted to get, like, a chance to just look around for a minute. look, if i had to describe this store in one word, it would be "barren." there are no accessories for sale, no point-of-purchase system, and zero food. it's almost like they did the absolute bare minimum and then said, "yeah, this is good enough." why'd you do a tea business? jeff: i just thought there was a need, you know. obviously, it was starbucks. i just feel that it's only in the upper 1% type malls and areas in our country, and i felt there was a need to bring it to the regular mother of four. lemonis: and so what is your relationship, the two of you? jeff: i'm still a dad first and a boss second. lemonis: how old are you? taylor: 23. jeff: 40. lemonis: so, he was born when you w

we heard how he wanted to fire jeff sessions. this is not coming as a huge shock to people in washington. i talked to a source familiar with what had happened to jeff sessions, who said before the midterm elections there were discussions inside the senate gop caucus about whether the president would try to do this somehow before the mid terms and the message was being sent from the white house that the president would, in fact, wait until after the mid terms. they didn't expect it to happen so quickly, perhaps later on at the end of this week. i think the president saw an opportunity to change the news cycle, change it away from the results of last night where he lost the house. now he has somebody overseeing the russia investigation. matt whitaker can oversee the russia investigation. somebody who is really a critic of this russia investigation is now in charge of it, wolfe. >> thanks very much jim acosta at the white house. more on the breaking news right now. our analysts and experts are joining us. you're at the justice depar

a lot of people in alabama look back and criticize jeff sessions, people who used to be loyal to jeff sessions. now criticize him, because they believe he made the wrong decision to recuse himself. but going back to that point about if matt whitaker is advised to recuse himself from this, jeff sessions had been advised to recuse himself. he didn't physically have to. but it would have looked really bad if he had not recused himself. >> he was part of the campaign. >> and that was his argument. president trump didn't see it that way. so even if matt whitaker is strongly advised, you need to recuse yourself because of the comments you've made about the mueller investigation, it raises the question of if he feels he has the backing of president trump and doesn't have to, will he do that? >> and his temporary status really is a disincentive for even the ethical offices at doj to say that he would be required to -- if it was not the appearance. jeff sessions was slated to be the attorney general for presumably a four-year term if not for consecutive terms, if the president got re-elected.

don mcgahn, who is gone, jeff sessions, john kelly. he's surrounded by people telling him not to do it and he's listened to them so far but he has been getting rid of these guardrails one after the other. >> you would appreciate this. the thing about sessions, too, that's amazing, first supporter in the senate, such a hard line guy, what he understood i think the president forgets about the presidency is that his job as attorney general is bigger than him. whether you like sessions or not, he held up to that principle and then gets treated like this. >> it was a protracted saturday night massacre. i will not give the president credit to think perhaps he is now just throwing caution to the wind. he knows the midterms are over and consequences politically are gone. there's hope because mueller anticipated this. so what do you got, mueller? time is up for you to take a protracted approach to this at this point. >> and a lot of us are wondering what rosenstein himself might do. >> one of the questions given the fact that matt whitaker at l

jeff sessions is out. his letter of resignation says that he's resigning at the president's request. >> what does that mean to you, pete? that's the first line, at your request i am submitting my resignation. >> right. meaning that he didn't want to leave as attorney general and he's only going because they have asked him to. i think this was the plan all along. my understanding is that jeff sessions assumed that this was going to happen in some form after the midterm election, that he would get a call from the white house saying it's time to go and that's apparently what has happened here. so someone -- the chief of staff or someone called him up and said, okay, time for you to pull the plug. i think mr. sessions anticipated this. there were signs in the last couple of months that he was realizing that his time as attorney general was coming to a close, so, you know, as i said earlier, i think the only surprising thing about this is the timing, happening the very day after the midterm elections. >> i hear

jeff: $70 looks pretty strong to me. alix: part of that will be on the year to make this about execution. how do you do that? jeff: i think the tougher for the bigger opportunity is around how to make wells more productive. at the same time that gets to near wellbore fracking as far as far field, diversion, and some of the things we do that i think will make, makes the core good but it makes not the core the core effective as well. that is the long-term opportunity for halliburton and customers is how we solve for those things. alix: does it make more competition? jeff: it is a competitive market. everywhere in the world. a lot internationally as well. there is a lot of demand for our services because of two things, service quality and performance and technology. alix: we are seeing acceleration decline rates in the wells drilled in 2014 and 2015. are you seeing that in wells drilled last year? >> we were exploring until last year. a huge resource base and still a lot to learn. alix: did you feel like we are seeing a spi

we're waiting for the attorney general, jeff sessions and departing attorney general jeff sessions to depart for the day leaving the department of justice. the speed of events is note worthy. that extraordinary news conference from the east room where the president clearly made the turn from fighting with the democrats, which he had been doing, now they have take -- shifts the focus now to the media. even for the president, a testy news conference. the likes of which the east room has never hosted, never in history. since then the immediate resignation of the attorney general. the immediate announcement of a replacement and interim replacement, the almost immediate swearing in of that replacement. the departure here, the arrival of rod rosenstein to john bussey now, associate ed to from the wall street journal. this is like a roller coaster. >> it's moving. we're about to see what happens to the mueller investigation by seeing what happens to rod rosenstein. so part of this is animus between the president and sessions. this has been a dead man walking, a dead cabinet member walking no

>> glor: okay, jeff pegues outside the d.o.j. tonight. jeff, thanks. the democratic leaders of the house and senate immediately called on whitaker to recuse himself from robert mueller's russia investigation. paula reid has been covering that from the very start. rie's in arizona tonight, where she was covering the senate race. wat paula, you have been covering jeff sessions now for two years. what does this mean for the future of this investigation? >> reporter: well, clearly, the cite house wanted new leadership to oversee the special counsel investigation. if they were happy with the job that rosenstein was doing, they would have left him in charge. g, now the question is: why whitaker? before whitaker joined sessions' staff, he was publicly critical of the special counsel investigation. de suggested its scope should be eimited, and that its resources could potentially be limited, the money they get to conduct their investigation. and now whitaker, he has final say over any charges that are and at a time when the president is under increasing scruti

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it's no surprise he got rid of jeff sessions. did you expect rosenstein, though, to step up into the role? >> i think that rosenstein has been surpassed by whittaker's appointment unless whittaker recuss himself. but more important what we saw today is a kind of coup against the rule of law. the kind of action you see in a tin pot dictatorship. now we have a president of the united states who clearly from the beginning has been trying to shutdown, bury the mueller investigation. he is on the road to doing it. he has done it the day after the election, under the cover of night as it were. and this is anti-democratic in the sense of lowercase "d," in the sense we now have a president of the united states who is willing to totally undermine the system of justice in this country for his own ends. >> laura, i mean is there anything to stop if whittaker wanted to do what he said on television and cut the budget for robert mueller's team, is that possible? >> well, he could limit and try to hamstring the nature of the investigation. rem

president donald trump attorney general jeff sessions the amount spent comes just hours after trump's republican party lost control of the house of representatives and chief state's midterm elections they would also increased its majority in the u.s. senate we'll have much more on the election and its aftermath in a few moments but first particle hain has this report on the man who was one of trump's earliest backus but his time at the justice department was troubled almost from day one. attorney general jeff sessions was an early and enthusiastic supporter of donald trump's bid for the white house. now when that bid succeeded president appointed his loyal supporter attorney general. but in his confirmation hearings sessions failed to tell the whole truth about a campaign error meeting he had with russian ambassador surrogate his lack session stunned washington. in with this statement in march of two thousand and seventeen and that is to do with it is was there any. investigations even. if. you know. sessions move enraged trump who saw it as enabling the probe into whether his campaig

much as it was under for jeff sessions. jeff sessions, ultimately, decided on his own per the ethi ethics counsel at the department of justice that he should recuse himself. the ethics folks could go to whittaker and say, hey, we see issues here. the president put me here, i'm doing what the president told me to do and essentially taking over this investigation and this deparetment of justice which is going to be entirely, everything there will be overseen by him. >> yeah, shimon, stay with us. joining us now is former federal prosecutor laura coates and former nixon white house counsel john dean. carl bernstein. and cnn chief legal analyst, jeffrey toobin. jeff, you say this is the president, himself, essentially taking over the mueller case. explain that. >> well, the -- robert mueller is an employee of the department of justice and understood the regulation he is to be supervised as an employee of the department of justice which means it's usually the attorney general unless the attorney general is recused. now because t

i like jeff sessions very much. i've known him since he was a united states attorney in mobile, alabama. this is his dream job. >> neil: and you're very old. >> not as old as i look. but every lawyer who serves in the justice department has this deep respect for the attorney generalship. it's as old as the republic. edmond randolph, the first attorney general, through some ups and downs. so it's a venerated position that people in the department respect and want to respect and admire the attorney general even though they don't agree with the policies. it's one of the great anchors of the rule of law. so the other issue that will come out with respect to integrity of mr. whitaker and his relationship with the president of the u.s. there's nothing wrong with my view that the president knows him and the president thinks well of him. with that. history shows robert kennedy's outstanding service under his brother, john and john kennedy says he needs to get some experience before he goes out and practices law. so that was

just -- listen. >> jeff sessions should have never let it happen. he should have never recused himself. i think it was a disgrace. jeff sessions never took control of the justice department, and it's a -- sort of an incredible thing. the attorney general made a terrible mistake when he did this and when he recused himself. i'm very disappointed with the attorney general, but we will see what happens. time will tell. time will tell. >> look, this may have been a long time coming, pamela, but i mean, you're also reporting not only the white house but justice officials were kind of kept in the dark on this one as well. >> that's right. again, the president had publicly ridiculed jeff sessions, so there certainly was an expectation at the justice department and the white house that eventually sessions would go, but aides have been urging the president to wait until after the midterms. however, timing was surprising at the justice department as well. in fact, u.s. attorneys across the country, d.o.j. employees only found out because they watched tv, they

this tension between himself and jeff sessions is that jeff sessions was a part of the campaign, and in fact, a noted surrogate. and the campaign itself was being investigated. that was the basis in which the people eternal in doj said you should recuse yourself. i will say, however, the idea is best practices. that's absolutely the case. but the thing about this particular individual is that he has not only done what people do not want a justice department to do, which is to show that lady justice is not blind. he has preconceived notions on the individual case and i want to hold him to his actual words. he's absolutely right. rod rosenstein and robert mueller should be held to the four corners of the investigation which includes whatever follows from the collusion investigation, including finances. that's part of it. and if he wants to be held to his word, then he should welcome any opportunity to venture past the initial. >> i was going to say, remember, we used to have this independent counsel statute that both sides got rid of it. it was a license to fish. very narrow. this is s

president donald trump forces his attorney general jeff sessions to resign a move that democrats have branded a gross abuse of power. hello i'm barbara starr and this is al jazeera live from london also coming up on the program. that's enough put down the mike you are rude terrible person well i'm not a big fan of yours either side of trump clashes with the media during a fractious press conference after the democrats' victory in the house of representatives in the midterm elections. seventy eight school students kidnapped in cameroon are freed but their principal and the teacher are still missing and the bare facts the grisly reality naturalists say lies behind that cute video. the u.s. attorney general jeff sessions has been forced to resign from his position at the request of president trump it comes just one day after the midterm elections which have handed control of the house of representatives back to the democrats the relationship between donald trump and jeff sessions soured almost as soon as sessions took office even though he was one of trump's first high profile supporters

attorney general jeff sessions is fired. it ends a rocky relationship between president trump and his top legal offici. the timing comes hours after the results of the midterm elections poured in, giving democrats the house and the republicans a greater margin in the senate. plus, it was a night ofs firsts . across theav country, voterse sent a diverse new group of people to congress. laura: welcome to our viewers on public tel around the globe.and the beleaguered u.s. attorney general jeff sessions has been fired. it follows months of a dysfunctional relationship mr. trump and hisop legal official which became strained after mr. sessions recused himself from the russia investigation. but today came the final blow. just hours after the results of the midterm elections. here's a look at how things played out. essions: make america great again. laura: jeff sessions was an early trump loyalist, the first u.s. senator to endorse s presidential run. but postelection, he ran into trouble after his confirmation hearing as attorney

i agree with jeff. i caution, it's unacceptable when we have, we move from legacy computer systems to upgrade and i caution that this is a challenge in the private sector and a challenge in government. we did something when we were going to dod and va, are going to come together on one electronic health record. we put together, hadn't been done in a long time, we put an extra subcommittee in the va that is totally responsible for the oversight of that, hiring people from google and the companies to come in as staffers that will oversee that. jeff is right, it has the potential to save, to be efficiencies, but it also has the potential to go awry and the cost overruns in the private sector and government are huge if you're not careful. >> trying to keep you guys on your toes, i want you guys to ask each other a question. would you like to ask congressman walz a question right now? >> i will ask the same question i just asked. you made tons of promises for spending. what taxes will you raise to pay for th

attorney general jeff sessions has been fired. it comes hours after the midterm elections, and was an abrupt end to the tumultuous relationship between the president and jeff for more, i'm joined by a federal andhi-collar criminal defense attorney. what does the departure of jeff sessions mean for theer probe? >> it is hugely consequential, and first i would like to say that this is not surprising in and of itself. i think the timing of it is quite surprising, but we know that trump has been harboring ill will, shall we say, with jeff sessions since the beginning. he alw that he recused himself on the russia investigation, which prompted deputy attorney general rod rosenstein to oversee the probe. now all of a sudden in firing sessions, or asking him to resign and him accepting the resignation, that leaves it open for trump to put somebody in the position of overseeing the probe other than rosenstein. laura: we know that the acting attorney general willma bhew whitaker, who has set in the past that d replacement for sessions could

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i love jeff sessions. my point of view the country is not being served. >> it would create a constitutional crisis. this is a prelude to ending or greatly limiting the mueller investigation. help president trump though, close he listens to will refrain from that. >> as for replacement he noticed that some republicans were lost to could fit into his cabinet. perhaps someone like chris kovach who lost the governor's race. there has been speculation about a more elder station like bill barr, his lawyer rudy giuliani who could be seen as being too close to the white house. or lindsey graham, a senator who can be easily confirmed by colleagues in the senate. perhaps tell mike he said he is not interested in the cabinet, chuck grassley likely to take over the finance committee. he is likely to take over the panel or his friends would have the power to oversee the confirmation. as well as, any other supreme court nomination. it's a big job. >> shannon: a lot of folks imply they are. and the supreme court in many

matt whitaker basically seems like the exact opposite of jeff sessions. sessions also posted a photo of himself power lifting but it wasn't as impressive. ( laughter ) we've got to get all our short jokes in now. now or never, they're done. apart from being former u.s. attorney and looking like bane during the off season, one other thing about whitaker that probably makes him the perfect pick for president trump, he shares a similar passion for business ethics. >> matt whitaker the now acting attorney general after jeff sessions was fired, he's now linked to a company referred to as a scam. rule patent marketing billed itself as helping investors secure patent and whitaker was hands on showcasing a hot tub invention for a company that has since been shut down and slapped with a $26 million fine from authorities snowho. >> trevor: he will be interrogating bad guys like, tell me who your partner is! you are. yeah, we had a good run, didn't we? ( laughter ) if you think whitaker looks familiar, you either just cleaned your bedroo your bathron watching a ton

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i'm jeff glor. this is our western edition. we are going to get to the first winter storm of the season in the east, in a moment. it has already turned deadly. also, the wildfires in the west. but there is news that is just coming out on a figure who has been all over the news in thepa a law enforcement source tells cbs news that michael avenatti, stormy daniels' lawyer, has been taken into custody by police in los angeles on suspicion of domestic violence. avenatti, a frequent trump critic and possible 2020 presidential candidate, also represented a kavanaugh accuser. jeff pegues has just confirmed details on this. he is in d.c. wh late today police in los has taken on president trump. in a tweet police said, we can confirm that today l.a.p.d.Ñi detectivesÑi arrested avenatti. the restxd stem fromÑi an inc) involve a woman. investigators did not offer more information about avenatti who took ororha cou >> it's always been our intention to make sure theq proceeded expeditiously and as much as inf

i'm jeff glor. before we go here tonight, we do annt to thank our senior news editor jerry cipriano. jerry is retiring today after 34 years on the job. a is a mentor, friend, and a master craftsman who has written ore first draft of history for more than three decades here at cbs news. by our count, more than 8300 broadcasts. jerry is a great writer. he is also maybe more importantly, a good man. i will miss him. we all will. thank you, jerry. have a successful retirement. you can start right now! ( applause ) captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org minutes before the fire erupted. we have a series of reports from >>> breaking news a possible cause for the deadly camp fire. >> pg&e said it had a problem minutes before the fire erupted. >> we have a series of reports from the devastation at paradise. >> and flames raging in malibu, the daring firefight to protect homes. kpix5 news at 6:00 begins right now with breaking news. we are awaiting the details from

jeff sessions out. not surprise here. the news was delivered to jeff sessions by chief of staff john kelly. matt whitaker, he is acting attorney general and he will oversee the russia investigation. president announced promotion for whitaker via twitter after sessions submitted his resignation letter. the president assailed sessions more than a year after sessions excused himself from the russia investigation. the president said before all this became public, no one should be surprised if changes are coming with his cabinet. listen here. >> as we make changes we'll sit down and talk to you about it. there is no great secret. a lot of administrations mick changes after midterms. we're happy with this cabinet. we're doing a good job. reporter: that was wide-ranging news conference hour 1/2 he would work with democrats over the next couple years. i asked the president about the possibility of middle class tax cuts and whether or not he would be open to the idea of bumping up the rates, the tax rates for corporations and the

a day after the election, trump fired attorney general jeff sessions. manyiring has led to comparisons between trump and former president richard nixon. on wednesday, cnn's jake tapper called sessions ouster another chapter in "a slow-motion multi-monthed saturday night , massacre." he was referencing the infamous saturday night massacre in 1973, when then-attorney general elliot richardson and his deputy resigned after president richard nixon ordered richardson to fire the special prosecutor investigating the watergate scandal. amy: for more, we continue our conversation with elizabeth holtzman, former u.s. congresswoman from new york who served on the house judiciary committee that voted to impeach richard nixon. for over 40 years,s, she had the record of eating the youngest woman ever elected to congress. her new book "the case for , impeaching trump," is out on monday. still with us, david cole. massacre.ay night as you are watching this unfold yesterday, liz, you must have -- you must have been flooded with memories. >> oh, yeah. it is not just hap

jeff flake or not. and that's just the reality, the political reality for the republicans who i know we just had an election. but the republicans -- the landscape for republicans in the next election, in 2020 -- never mind the presidency, in the senate, is much less positive for the gop. and they have to start looking. >> remember -- but remember, the republican caucus is now more pro trump than it used to be. >> true. >> jeff flake is leaving. bob corker is leaving. you know, john mccain, of course, is gone. the people who remain are the real hard core trump loyalists. so the idea that mitch mcconnell is going to feel pressure to protect robert mueller seems remote. >> mitt romney is in the senate. remember that. >> we'll see what mitt romney, the incoming senator from utah, has to say. everybody stand by. much more on the breaking news right after this. er the mess, irobot has your everyday solution. roomba vacuums up dry debris and pet hair throughout your home. and for wet messes, say hello to the b

privately calls jeff sessions "mr. magoo." >> i'm very disappointed with the attorney general, but we will see what happens. time will tell. time will tell. captioning sponsored by comedy central captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org (pam on phone) well, i should go. all right. i'll tell everybody here that you say hi. no, don't. i'm mad at them. [chuckling] why? what happened? not one of them called to congratulate me on our engagement. ah. that they might be off the hook for, because i didn't tell them. what? why not? [chuckles] i just didn't, you know, want to deal-- come on, it won't be that bad. okay, you know what? here we go.

not that jeff sessions has been replaced. that tension has been there from almost the beginning with attorney general sessions, who i think is an honorable man recusing himself from the russia investigation. but now here he is, the chief of staff is now the acting attorney general. so let's wait and see. i know a lot of conclusions are being drawn in light of the comments that mr. whittaker has made, his writings and so forth being critical of the bob mueller investigation. but there is so many traditions of the department. and mr. whittaker has been at the elbow of jeff sessions, so what's he going to do? obviously, we don't know. but he's not going to be acting unilaterally. if he does, it could be kind dangerous for him. >> tell me more about that because what makes you think he won't act unilaterally? i'm not sure we need to wait and see what happens, mr. starr. he feels that the mueller probe is possibly too far-reaching. he also feels that one way to starve it is to just start of starve it of its funding. here he was sp

first of all, jeff sessions, i'm going to hold it up here to get clear of the graphics, jeff sessions has sent this letter to the white house chief of staff. the first line of it says this. at your request, i am submitting my resignation. the letter is addressed to the president, but it was delivered through the chief of staff. there's no -- curiously there's no date on the letter, so i don't know when jeff sessions wrote this letter, but he presented it today. again, it says at your request i am submitting my resignation. then he goes on to say what a pleasure it's been to be attorney general. what he thinks he's done as attorney general, some of the things that he believes he's accomplished. he concludes by saying i've been honored to serve as attorney general and have worked to implement the law enforcement agenda based on the rule of law that formed a central part of your campaign for the presidency. thank you for that opportunity, mr. president, and it's signed jeff sessions. so the man that the president has apparently chosen to act as attorney general, matt whitaker, is a forme

host: jeff flake is hoping he is, or others. big question is whether we believe in anything that is in any way coherent against the current cult of the president's personality. there is only one real way forward. it has to start with republicans believing in something greater than president trump again. now is a good time to start. guest: that is jeff flake, who we talked about, the 2020 campaign for president on the democratic side. there will be 37 democrats running. there may well yet be a challenge to the president's renomination. thecaller mentioned governor of the great state of ohio, john kasich might be interested in doing that. i think there will be a more vocal, more volume underneath the ranks of the republicans who say it cannot be the trump party and has to be back to the republican party. said: the president yesterday that some of those house republicans lost their races because they did not embrace him. guest: that was a remarkable moment in american political history. i do not think a republican president -- a pr

president donald trump has fired jeff sessions, the attorney general, after publicly parading himself oversing the alleged russian meddling in the 2016 u.s. elections. that paved the way for robert mueller's investigation and will be replaced now by his -- for now by his chief of staff. what does this mean for the russia probe? >> now, you have s someone in charge who is a donaldld trump loyalist, he will oversee the justice department. until this point, ron rosenstein has been over -- overseeing the pressure probe because jeff sessions recused himself because of his support for donald trump during his 2016 support for donald trump an undisclosed meetings with the russian ambassador leading up to the election. you have a donald trump loyalist who said the investigation being overseen by robert mueller has gone too far. talk about speculating in an interview about the ability to stop the investigation by stopping to find it -- fund it. is nowld trump oil acting -- loyalist the acting attorney general. does this mean the investigation will stop? >> the justice department says it will co

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jeff sessions the u.s. attorney general who just stepped down has got some new friends liberals and progressives across the country are taking to the streets to protest his removal it's over nine hundred cities that are having protests a major mobilization but was jeff sessions a friend of progressives hardly jeff sessions that i was a zero rating for the human rights campaign on gay rights a guy who asked the department of the national council of nannies why they were buying so many books on islam the zero tolerance policy means zero humanity and it makes zero sense for his political or motivated voting fraud prosecutions to his indifference toward criminal violations of civil rights laws back in two thousand and sixteen when jeff sessions was first nominated the liberal organization known as move on dot org issued a petition opposing him they accused him of making racist comments opposing equal pay for women immigration and opposing hate crimes legislation this is how jeff sessions confirmation hearings w

as far as the jeff sessions thing goes, they had this all plan. i have no doubt in my mind they had this all planned, and i hope the democrats just destroy them. that is about all i had to say. thank you. greta: bernard in new york. a republican. so much to respond to this afternoon. the president's news conference, the news conference by the democratic leader, and of course the election results. go ahead, bernard. caller: thank you. of your last callers, seven were left-wingers, and you gave them plenty of time. i would appreciate the same courtesy. greta: ok. caller: thank you so much. i would like to explain liberalism and jim acosta. are two opinions. cnn put out their statement, but one of the top news people at fox news said it was shameless what general austin -- what jim acosta did. i will explain why it is shameless. most networks, 90%, or left wing. they are a capable of telling the truth because they believe the lie is the truth. it comes from you ballistic narcissism, which acosta has big-time. jim acosta did not ask the president a qu

laura: jeff mason, thank you for joining us. jeff: my pleasure. laura: the long-awaited trial of the drug lord known as el chapo began today in new york. he was the leader of an infamous cartel in mexico and was extradited to the ges. to face chof trafficking drugs. but there was a bit of a delay when a female juror withdrew from the case. s.e bbc's nick bryant repo nick: rarely has a new york courthouse seen so many layers of security, but rarely has a new york trial seen a defendant like joaquÍn guzmÁn. the drug lord known as el chapo was extradited to america to two years ago and charged with overseeing the largest drug trafficking ganization in the world, the feared sinaloa cartel. anfore his capture following this raid by mex special forces, el chapo had been one of the worln's most wanted men, a also one of the world's richest. he had achve local notoriety for twice escaping from prison, once a long a mile-long tunnel that ended in the shower of his cell. rtel is alleged to have imported tons of cocaine and heroin and other drugs int unite

i'm jeff glor. this is our western edition. and we are going to begin with the president's attempt to make a major change to asylum and immigration policy five days before the midterm elections. restrictions announced this afternoon could make it significantly more difficult for new asylum seekers to enter the u.s. we begin here with major hirrett. ti this is an invasion, and nobody's even questioning that. >> reporter: late this usternoon, president trump said b will use executive authority he ban asylum seekers from entering the u.s. unless they surrender at a port of entry. get nder this plan, the illegal triens will no longer get a free pass into our country by lodging meritless claims in seeking asylum. li reporter: under the previous slicy, migrants making asylum claims were permitted to stay in ardlu.s. while their cases were eyocessed, regardless of where they entered. co we're not releasing them into our country any longer. they'll wait for long periods of time. >> reporter: the u.s. granted whylum in 2016 to more than

donald trump fired jeff sessions for one reason because if you look at jeff sessions' policies they were in lock step with donald trump. they only disagreed on russian investigation. only reason he fired jeff sessions was to put in someone who would interfere with the special counsel's investigation. that looks like obstruction of justice, the same way firing james comey was obstruction of justice. >> then the congress, both chambers of congress, both chambers of congress, meaning the senate and congress, haven't had many checks on this president basically on this administration basically. he's able to with a blank check able to do whatever he wants to do. what do you say to the folks who say they're not going to do anything differently than they've been doing over the last couple of years? >> that's one reason democrats had a blue wave empty house of representatives last night. people wanted to put in a check and blaebs on the president of the united states and his administration. come january, the house of representatives is going to be a coequal branch of government. we're going to ac

jeff sessions' departure is not a surprise. this is something he has -- the president has wanted to do for a long time. his frustration with sessions since the recusal and, of course, sessions was the first u.s. senator to endorse trump's long shot campaign bid in 2015. but the president never forgave him for that original sin of being talked out of firing him repeatedly. rudy giuliani has told him not to do it. and the president begrudgingly agreed to wait until after the midterms but had been telling people recently he wanted to act very soon after the ballots were cast. he acted -- he did indeed that with doing this today. and sessions -- for sessions, he was spotted here this weekend showing his grandkids around the briefing room. he clearly knew this was coming. he received the call from the chief of staff john kelly and sent over the undated letter of resignation, one he tried to submit previously and was talked out of it by reince priebus and others. he didn't want to have to go voluntarily. he felt like he told people a

privately calls jeff sessions "mr. magoo." >> i'm very disappointed with the attorney general, but we will see what happens. time will tell. time will tell. captioning sponsored by comedy central captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org (pam) w.b. jones is renovating their offices, and their construction crews are taking up some of the parking spaces we used to get. (jim) so we had to park at a satellite parking lot over there. which just means we get to see more of our lovely street. tell them what we saw today, jim. oh, today we saw a junkyard dog attacking the bones of a rotisserie chicken. nature. i've been here nine years, and now all of a sudden

>> jeff sessions -- yes. because jeff sessions still has some people who really care about him. >> interesting. >> and to bring in and to bring in this new person who is nothing more than a kiss-up operative is such a slam, you know, at the whole institution that a lot of the senators still respect. so i think if people in this country stay engaged. and one of the good things, you know, about this presidency is, because of the trump so many got engaged on all sides, people don't like obstruction of justice as a general rule. >> yeah. >> and i want to just say one quick thing if i could, we call it a point of personal privilege in the senate. >> please. >> that is, thank you, america, for a blue wave in the house, for a blue wave on the governorships, and a little mini, i would call it, you know, red wave in the senate, but not as much as we could have seen. and also all the women who got elected. so anyway, i thought i'd say that because donald trump changed the subject so fast no one had two minutes to refle