AL.com reports:
The future of Attorney General Jeff Sessions is in doubt in the wake of a bombshell interview in which President Donald Trump said he would not have nominated the former Alabama Senator if he’d know he would recuse himself from the investigation into Russia interference in the 2016 presidential election.
Trump told the New York Times that Sessions’ actions were “very unfair to the president.” “How do you take a job and then recuse yourself? If he would have recused himself before the job, I would have said, ‘Thanks, Jeff, but I’m not going to take you.’ It’s extremely unfair — and that’s a mild word — to the president,” the president said.
Sessions did not comment on the report, however, questions about his future with the Justice Department are mounting. Sources told CNN that Sessions had no plans to resign while MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow said the Attorney General is “now on resignation watch.”
@RealDonaldTrump No one in America can match the excellence of @JeffSessions as Attorney General. Trump agenda would be crippled w\o him.
— Steve King (@SteveKingIA) July 20, 2017
The President today effectively asked Sessions for his resignation. Will he resign or insist on being fired? https://t.co/bShMQJtrBI
— Preet Bharara (@PreetBharara) July 20, 2017