Heinrich Statement On Attorney General Jeff Sessions

Remember how good Trump read that teleprompter? “Attorney General Sessions should resign immediately, and there is no longer any question that we need a truly independent commission to investigate this issue”. And remember that President Obama and members of his campaign all said specifically and repeatedly that there had been no contact with Russian Federation. At his press conference today (March 2), Sessions spoke about one of the meetings, recalling that it ending in a tense confrontation about Ukraine.

Driving it all is the fevered far-left theory that a Russia/Trump-campaign conspiracy stole the election from Hillary Clinton – though few Democrats admit that as they rail over the supposed horrors of any association with the Russians. “Why is everybody lying?”

Sessions denied any impropriety and released a statement that said he “never met with any Russian officials to discuss issues of the campaign”. I have no idea what this allegation is all about. On Thursday, however, Sessions’ spokeswoman confirmed that Sessions met with Kislyak twice before the election. The next month he said the two countries were “living through the worst time in our relationship.” a curious claim considering mutually assured destruction doesn’t seem to be on the table. Asked if Sessions should recuse himself, the president said, “I don’t think so”, CNN reports. “There’s no doubt about that”. “PEPLT007788-topic.html” class=”local_link” >Bob Casey and Republican U.S. Rep. “In 1986, as part of his rejected bid to become a federal district court judge, Sessions filled out a similar questionnaire and had to provide the same information about his most important cases”. While Sessions has now admitted he met twice with the Russian ambassador previous year, he said they did not have any such conversations about political campaigns.

“If he himself is a subject of an investigation, of course he should (recuse himself.) But if he’s not I don’t see any goal or reason for doing this”, Ryan told reporters Thursday.

The revelation of Sessions’ Russian contacts – which directly contradicted his testimony in Senate confirmation hearings – plunged President Donald Trump’s administration into fresh turmoil, dashing its hopes for a feel-good reboot after a chaotic start.

“The first meeting Jeff Sessions had with the Russian Amb was set up by the Obama Administration under education program for 100 Ambs.”, the President tweeted. That misrepresentation is the reason Trump said he fired his national security adviser, maintaining that there was nothing wrong with the two men talking.