Pelosi calls on Sessions to quit after Post discloses Russian Federation contacts

The story has maintained momentum, in part, because Trump has refused to release tax returns that would potentially show whether he had any dealings in Russian Federation.

Republican nominee Donald Trump rejected Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton’s suggestion that Russian hackers had leaked her party’s emails.

Trump has labeled the allegations “fake news”. The spokesperson said the senator learned of the investigation through news reports Wednesday evening.

The July meeting with Kislyak happened in during the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, when Sessions addressed a Heritage Foundation event attended by 50 ambassadors, several of whom chatted with him after the speech, a Sessions spokeswoman told AL.com.

The Trump administration has been hit by a fresh storm over dealings with Moscow after attorney general Jeff Sessions was found to have not disclosed his contacts with the Russian ambassador to the United States in the thick of the race for the White House in 2016 in which he was a top adviser to the Republican nominee, Donald Trump.

Lee’s office was the only of any senator on the Senate Judiciary Committee to return requests for comment about whether the committee was briefed on the investigation before Sessions’ hearing.

“I have not found a member of the Armed Services Committee on our side of the aisle that have ever been called by the Russian ambassador for a meeting”. He is under fire after reports that he had conversations with the Russian ambassador previous year.

But Sessions is now being accused of lying to Congress under oath.

On Thursday, Schumer and Pelosi led calls by opposition Democrats in Congress for the resignation of Sessions, who during confirmation hearings in January failed to disclose 2016 meetings with the Russian ambassador to Washington, Sergey Kislyak.

Democratic leaders in the House and Senate went further, calling on Sessions to resign after 22 days on the job.

The meeting took place before Trump left for Florida for the weekend and it included chief of staff Reince Priebus, senior adviser Jared Kushner, Trump’s daughter Ivanka, chief strategist Steve Bannon, communications director Mike Dubke and press secretary Sean Spicer, Politico reported Saturday. California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the highest-ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, said Sessions had to either recuse himself or resign Thursday morning.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced he will recuse himself from a federal investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, while defending his contacts with the Russian ambassador during the election as proper. I trust the men and women leading the Intelligence Committee investigation, and I trust Sen. “I trust him enough to make that determination”.

CNN reporter Ana Navarro tells Detroit Today producer Jake Neher it’s not enough for Sessions to just recuse himself.

The FBI is investigating alleged Russian involvement in November’s US presidential election.