Brit Hume: Trump ‘Seems to Think That The Attorney General is Some Kind of Goalie For Him’

On Tuesday night, Fox News’s Tucker Carlson and Brit Hume defended Attorney General Jeff Sessions as President Trump continues his attacks against him.

Carlson started off by reacting to Trump’s speech he gave at a rally in Youngstown, OH.

“The irony is that listening to that speech, which I really enjoyed and I agreed with it,” Carlson said, “the one person from his administration I’m aware of who actually agrees with all of that… is Jeff Sessions, who’s also the one under fire today.”

Hume weighed in.

“I think the president has a peculiar concept of what the attorney general’s job is,” he began. “He seems to think that the attorney general is some kind of goalie for him to protect from whatever may come his way from forces he find inimical to him. That’s not the job of the attorney general. It isn’t.”

He went on to explain that the attorney general is supposed to “enforce the nation’s laws involving everybody, including the president.”

“This whole recusal argument that the president makes that he should have let him know that he was going to do it,” Hume continued, “well, maybe a couple of days ahead of time maybe he should have- but the circumstances that gave rise to his recusal hadn’t really come about… at the time when the president appointed him. So it doesn’t really make any sense, his case against Sessions on his recusal doesn’t really make sense to me.”

Carlson agreed, but feared that such tension could “cause a disruption” with other people in Trump’s cabinet.

Watch the clip above, via Fox News.