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Rachel Maddow Puts Jeff Sessions on \u2018Resignation Watch\u2019 After Trump Slam: VIDEO<\/b><\/p>\n

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Last night\u2019s stunning New York Times<\/em> interview<\/a> with Donald Trump in which he publicly trashed Attorney General Jeff Sessions and said he wouldn\u2019t have appointed\u00a0him if he knew Sessions was going to recuse himself from the Russia probe has folks wondering if Sessions will resign.<\/p>\n

The NYT reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cJeff Sessions takes the job, gets into the job, recuses himself, which frankly I think is very unfair to the president,\u201d he added. \u201cHow do you take a job and then recuse yourself? If he would have recused himself before the job, I would have said, \u2018Thanks, Jeff, but I\u2019m not going to take you.\u2019 It\u2019s extremely unfair \u2014 and that\u2019s a mild word \u2014 to the president.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr. Trump also faulted Mr. Sessions for his testimony during Senate confirmation hearings when Mr. Sessions said he had not met with any Russians even though he had met at least twice with Ambassador Sergey I. Kislyak. \u201cJeff Sessions gave some bad answers,\u201d the president said. \u201cHe gave some answers that were simple questions and should have been simple answers, but they weren\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n

Said Rachel Maddow who put Sessions and perhaps several other members of Trump\u2019s administration, on resignation watch:<\/p>\n

\u201cIn normal times, we would expect an official criticized this way by the president to resign before the evening is over. That said, these are not normal times.\u201d<\/p>\n

Watch:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

CNN reports that Sessions has no plans to resign:<\/p>\n

A Justice Department spokeswoman declined to comment to CNN about the President\u2019s remarks regarding Sessions. But a source familiar with his thinking said Sessions has no intention of stepping down as attorney general in the wake of Trump\u2019s comments.<\/div>\n
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