Lawrence: How Donald Trump Finally Went Too Far, Even For GOP Senators | The Last Word

>>> THE BREAKING NEWS TONIGHT FROM "THE WASHINGTON POST" IS
THAT THE PRESIDENT IS DISCUSSING WITH HIS ADVISERS THE
POSSIBILITY OF REPLACING ATTORNEY GENERAL JEFF SESSIONS
WITH A RECESS APPOINTMENT DURING THE AUGUST RECESS THAT WOULD
BYPASS SENATE CONFIRMATION AND ALLOW THE NEW ATTORNEY GENERAL
TO SERVE WITHOUT BEING CONFIRMED BY THE SENATE UNTIL THE END OF
THIS CONGRESS. "THE WASHINGTON POST" REPORTS
SOME ADVISERS HAVE COME AWAY CONVINCED THAT TRUMP IS
DETERMINED TO ULTIMATELY REMOVE SESSIONS AND IS SERIOUSLY
CONSIDERING A RECESS APPOINTMENT TO REPLACE HIM, AN IDEA THAT HAS
BEEN DISCUSSED ON SOME OF THE CABLE NEWS SHOWS HE WATCHES.
AND IT WAS DISCUSSED HERE LAST NIGHT WHEN I BROUGHT IT UP WITH
SENATOR AL FRANKEN. THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN THE FIRST
TIME THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP DISCOVERED THERE IS SUCH A THING
AS A RECESS APPOINTMENT. AND I'VE BEEN RAISING THE
QUESTION ABOUT A RECESS APPOINTMENT FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL
ON TWITTER BEFORE LAST NIGHT. MY RAISING THE QUESTION OF A
RECESS APPOINTMENT WAS PURELY SPECULATION.
AS I SAID, I WAS JUST -- JUST SPECULATING.
I HAD NO SOURCES IN THE WHITE
HOUSE TELLING ME ANY OF THAT. BUT THE MAN WHO NOW OCCUPIES THE
PRESIDENCY IS SO FULLY TRANSPARENT THAT SPECULATION
ABOUT WHAT HE MIGHT BE THINKING ABOUT COULD NOT BE EASIER.
AND OF COURSE ONCE HE LEARNED THERE WAS SOMETHING CALLED A
RECESS APPOINTMENT, PRESIDENT TRUMP WAS GOING TO START
THINKING ABOUT IT AND TALKING ABOUT IT, WHICH BRINGS US TO
WHAT MIGHT BE OUR MOST INTERESTING CROSS ROADS YET FOR
THE PRESIDENT AND REPUBLICAN SENATORS.
IT HAS FINALLY HAPPENED. REPUBLICAN SENATORS ARE FINALLY
UP IN ARMS AGAINST PRESIDENT TRUMP.
FINALLY THEY HAVE FOUND THEIR VOICE.
THE PRESIDENT HAS FINALLY GONE TOO FAR FOR EVEN REPUBLICAN
SENATORS. NOW, BEFORE WE CONSIDER WHAT THE
PRESIDENT HAS FINALLY DONE THAT REPUBLICAN SENATORS JUST CANNOT
ACCEPT, WE SHOULD -- WE REALLY DO OWE OURSELVES FOR PERSPECTIVE
A MINUTE TO REMEMBER JUST SOME OF THE THINGS THAT REPUBLICAN
SENATORS HAVE HAD NO PROBLEM ACCEPTING FROM THEIR REPUBLICAN
PRESIDENT. WHEN DONALD TRUMP SAID JOHN
McCAIN WAS NOT A WAR HERO BECAUSE HE GOT CAPTURED,
REPUBLICAN SENATORS ACCEPTED THAT.
WHEN DONALD TRUMP MADE THE UNCONSTITUTIONAL CAMPAIGN
PROMISE TO BAN ALL MUSLIMS FROM ENTERING THIS COUNTRY,
REPUBLICAN SENATORS ACCEPTED THAT.
WHEN DONALD TRUMP ATTACKED SENATOR TED CRUZ'S WIFE AND
SUGGESTED THAT TED CRUZ'S FATHER WAS INVOLVED IN THE KENNEDY
ASSASSINATION, REPUBLICAN SENATORS ACCEPTED THAT AND THEN,
IN THE MOST HORRIFIC TURN THAT WE HAVE EVER SEEN IN A SENATOR'S
CAREER, TED CRUZ HIMSELF RETROACTIVELY ACCEPTED THAT AND
ACTUALLY BROUGHT HIS WIFE AND HIS CHILDREN TO THE TRUMP WHITE
HOUSE TO BOW DOWN BEFORE THEIR NEW PRESIDENT.
AND WHEN DONALD TRUMP ATTACKED ROSIE O'DONNELL AND MEGYN KELLY
AND TALKED ABOUT BLOOD COMING OUT OF MEGAN KELLY, REPUBLICAN
SENATORS ACCEPTED THAT. AND WHO CAN FORGET WHEN DONALD
TRUMP ATTACKED KAISER KAHN AND HIS WIFE, THE PARENTS UNITED
STATES ARMY CAPTAIN WHO WAS KILLED IN THE LINE OF DUTY IN
IRAQ, WHEN DONALD TRUMP ATTACKED THEM, REPUBLICAN SENATORS
ACCEPTED DONALD TRUMP'S ATTACKS ON THE KHAN FAMILY.
HE WAS THEIR NOMINEE FOR PRESIDENT BY THEN, AND
REPUBLICAN SENATORS MADE IT CLEAR THAT THEY WOULD ACCEPT
ANYTHING THEIR NOMINEE SAID OR DID.
WHEN DONALD TRUMP WAS REVEALED ON A VIDEO RECORDING TO HAVE
BRAGGED ABOUT SEXUAL ASSAULT AND DESCRIBED HIS OWN TECHNIQUE OF
SEXUAL ASSAULT, REPUBLICAN SENATORS ACCEPTED THAT.
REPUBLICAN SENATORS WITH DAUGHTERS ACCEPTED THAT.
REPUBLICAN SENATORS WITH WIVES AND MOTHERS AND SISTERS ACCEPTED
THAT. DONALD TRUMP DESCRIBING HIMSELF
AS A SEXUAL ASSAULTER WAS SOMETHING THAT REPUBLICAN
SENATORS HAD NO PROBLEM ACCEPTING.
PRESIDENT TRUMP WOKE UP ONE MORNING AND TWEETED LIES ABOUT
PRESIDENT OBAMA ILLEGALLY WIRETAPPING TRUMP TOWER, AND
REPUBLICAN SENATORS ACCEPTED THAT AND LET'S NEVER, EVER
FORGET THAT REPUBLICAN SENATORS ACCEPTED DONALD TRUMP LYING
ABOUT PRESIDENT OBAMA'S BIRTH FOR OVER FIVE YEARS.
NOW, WHAT I WOULD LOVE TO BE ABLE TO DO RIGHT HERE IS JUST
SIT HERE IN SILENCE WITH YOU AS WE ALL JUST LET IT SINK IN.
WHAT REPUBLICANS AND REPND REPU SENATORS IN PARTICULAR HAVE
ACCEPTED FROM DONALD TRUMP, AND IN THAT SILENCE WE COULD THINK
OF DOZENS AND DOZENS OF MORE OUTRAGEOUS THINGS THAT
REPUBLICAN SENATORS HAVE ACCEPTED FROM DONALD TRUMP.
BUT THIS IS TV, AND IF I GO SILENT, THEY'LL POP A COMMERCIAL
IN HERE, SO LET'S MOVE ON TO THE OUTRAGE.
THE FINAL OUTRAGE THAT HAS PROVOKED SOME REPUBLICAN
SENATORS TO REACH INTO WHAT'S LEFT OF THEIR CONSCIENCE AND
OBJECT, OBJECT TO PRESIDENT TRUMP, AND THAT OUTRAGE OF
COURSE IS THE PRESIDENT'S TREATMENT OF A REPUBLICAN
SENATOR. SENATOR JEFF SESSIONS WAS THE
FIRST SENATOR TO ENDORSE THE CANDIDACY OF DONALD TRUMP.
SENATOR JEFF SESSIONS WAS THE ONLY REPUBLICAN SENATOR WHO
ENDORSED THE CANDIDACY OF DONALD TRUMP BEFORE DONALD TRUMP WON
THE REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION.
AND THIS WEEK, SENATOR JEFF SESSIONS HAS BECOME THE NEW
TRUMP ENEMY, THE NEW HILLARY, THE NEW OBAMA, THE NEW LYIN'
TED, THE NEW LITTLE MARCO. WE NOW HAVE THE BELEAGUERED
ATTORNEY GENERAL JEFF SESSIONS ACCORDING TO DONALD TRUMP.
AND SO FOR REPUBLICAN SENATORS, DONALD TRUMP HAS FINALLY CROSSED
THE LINE THAT HE CROSSED WITH A MAJORITY OF AMERICANS DURING THE
PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN. >> JEFF SESSIONS IS AN HONORABLE
MAN. HE DID WHAT I BELIEVE ANY
ETHICAL ATTORNEY GENERAL WOULD DO UNDER THE CIRCUMSTANCES.
>> JEFF HAS BEEN VERY LOYAL TO THE PRESIDENT, AND I THINK HE
DESERVES LOYALTY BACK. >> HE IS ONE OF THE MOST HONEST
PEOPLE YOU WOULD EVER KNOW. HE IS A MAN OF VERY HIGH
INTEGRITY. JEFF SESSIONS HAS MY CONFIDENCE.
>> I THINK THAT HIS INDEPENDENCE HAS BEEN PROVEN BY HIS
WILLINGNESS TO RECUSE HIMSELF. >> KENNETH STARR, THE SPECIAL
PROSECUTOR WHO INVESTIGATED BILL CLINT, HAS JUST PUBLISHED AN
OP-ED PIECE IN "THE WASHINGTON POST" SAYING THAT THE
PRESIDENT'S ATTACK ON ATTORNEY GENERAL JEFF SESSIONS IS, QUOTE,
ONE OF THE MOST OUTRAGEOUS AND PROFOUNDLY MISGUIDED COURSES OF
PRESIDENTIAL CONDUCT I HAVE WITNESSED IN FIVE DECADES IN AND
AROUND THE NATION'S CAPITAL. "THE NEW YORK TIMES"
CONSERVATIVE COLUMNIST HAS WRITTEN TONIGHT IN A COLUMN THAT
WILL APPEAR IN TOMORROW'S PRINT EDITION, QUOTE, DONALD TRUMP'S
CAMPAIGN AGAINST HIS ATTORNEY GENERAL, JEFF SESSIONS, IN WHICH
HE IS SEEMINGLY ATTEMPTING TO INSULT AND HUMILIATE AND TWEET
SHAME SESSIONS INTO RESIGNATION IS AN INSANELY STUPID EXERCISE.
THE COLUMN GOES ON TO DESCRIBE THE PRESIDENT'S ACTIONS AS A
MULTI-TIERED TOWER OF IDIOCY, MORONIC, MADNESS, AND PROOF THAT
THE PRESIDENT IS, QUOTE, GRAVELY DEFICIENT, SOMEWHERE AT THE
INTERSECTION OF REASON AND JUDGMENT AND CONSCIENCE AND
SELF-CONTROL. THE LAST LINE OF THIS
CONSERVATIVE OP-ED PIECE IS SIMPLY, THIS PRESIDENT SHO

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