Kremlin says Trump totally right that uproar over Sessions is ‘witch hunt’

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, then a Republican senator, spoke with Russian ambassador twice during Donald Trump’s presidential campaign a year ago, and he didn’t reveal it at Senate hearings for his confirmation, U.S. media reported Wednesday.

Asked by NBC News on Thursday morning if he would recuse himself in investigating any potential ties between Trump’s campaign and Russian officials, Sessions said he would do so “whenever it’s appropriate”.

Before Trump took office, US intelligence agencies concluded that Russian Federation had sought to influence the campaign, including by hacking into and leaking Democratic emails.

Democratic members of the House Judiciary Committee also sent a letter to FBI Director James Comey and U.S. Attorney Channing D. Phillips asking for an investigation into Sessions’s denial during his confirmation hearings that he had had contact with the Russian government during the course of Trump’s campaign.

Meanwhile, Democrat Elijah Cummings, a ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, called on Sessions to resign immediately.

Sessions, however, told his confirmation hearing at the Senate Judiciary Committee on January 10 that he did not know of contacts between Trump campaign members and Russian Federation.

“We are now getting further evidence of how the Trump administration and its officials may have been engaging in a cover-up of serious misdeeds, much like how Watergate slowly unravelled during the Nixon administration”, he said.

The former speaker of the house responded to the charge minutes later via Twitter, saying her meeting with Kislyak was open to the press and that her interview was not under oath, unlike Trump’s Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

After weeks of calling for a special prosecutor to lead the probe into Trump’s Russian Federation ties, Democrats attacked the issue with newfound fervor after the Post reported that Sessions met with Kislyak.

March 1, 2017: The Washington Post breaks the news that Sessions met with the Russian ambassador twice during the campaign.

“Lying under oath about contacts with Russian officials supersedes recusal”, said Representative Mark Pocan, the caucus’s vice chair.

The development comes amid pressure for Attorney General Jeff Sessions to resign over his two conversations with Mr Kislyak during Mr Trump’s election campaign.

“Now, again, I’m telling you this as it’s coming out, so you know”. The other 25 said they had no interaction with him.

Looking at the transcripts from the hearing, however, it’s not 100 percent clear that Sessions made an intentionally false statement, though he appears to have omitted relevant information.

However, you can see for yourself how Sessions answered questions about contact with Russian Federation, thanks to these transcribed answers from CNN. Sen.