The entire Mass. congressional delegation calls for Sessions resignation

Sessions, who is a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, had previously denied communications with the Russian government during his confirmation hearing.

“Attorney General Sessions met one-on-one with the Russian ambassador in the midst of a Russian cyber campaign against the US, and then misled the Judiciary Committee under oath about that meeting”, the LaBombard said.

Mr Sessions, the Attorney General, has rescued himself from ongoing investigations that the Department of Justice is already overseeing.

“I never gave that a thought – never considered it”, Sessions told Carlson. Elizabeth Warren said Sessions should resign.

“He was asked during the hearing about communications between Russian Federation and the Trump campaign – not about meetings he took as a senator and a member of the Armed Services Committee”, Flores told the Post. Lindsey Graham. But Graham dismissed the idea that anything nefarious was going on.

“Jeff Sessions is an honest man”.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions held a press conference Thursday afternoon after senior Democrats called for his resignation, saying he will recuse himself from investigations of Russian involvement in President Donald Trump’s election.

North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis was also quick to defend his former colleague’s integrity. President Donald Trump: “I don’t think so at all”. I completely reject it.

Trump said, “Well, I had nothing to do with it”.

“If the Justice Department drags its feet and refuses to appoint a special prosecutor or select someone with insufficient independence, there is another route”, Mr Schumer said. “They should also make it clear that no one is above the law, by demanding an independent criminal investigation of Sessions’ Senate testimony”. So I would advise our friends not to misrepresent what is happening on the ground: government forces killing Ukrainian citizens.

Due to viable concerns that he lied during his nomination hearing, Sessions is now the center of suspicions that Russian Federation interfered in the 2016 election.

More than half-a-dozen Republican lawmakers, including some who consider themselves personally close to Mr Sessions, had urged him to recuse himself from the Justice Department probe.

Having concluded those meetings today, I have made a decision to recuse myself from any existing or future investigations of any matters related in any way to the campaigns for President of the United States. 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.

Gordon says he sought the change, following a meeting at the trump hotel earlier in the year, when trump himself said he did not want to go to war with Russian Federation over Ukraine. “I have nothing to do with Russian Federation”.

“The Judiciary Committee’s Democrats also asked DOJ’s inspector general Michael Horowitz to” conduct a thorough investigation” into Session’s decision to recuse himself from any Russian Federation investigation. “I just stated my opinion”. “I was impressed by the way he went about that kind of socializing, the way he went about entertaining, but always with a political objective”.

But some Republicans dismissed the situation out of hand and deemed the uproar Thursday morning to be nothing more than a Democratic attack on the Trump administration.

Trump tweeted a photo on Friday of Schumer’s meeting with Putin in NY in 2003 and the picture showed them drinking coffee and eating donuts.

Sessions claimed, in effect, that he had misunderstood a question posed by Sen. The revelation directly contradicts Sessions’ sworn testimony to Congress in January that he did not meet with any Russian officials in the run-up to November’s election. Tom Cotton in a statement.

“Schumer is playing politics, Nancy Pelosi is playing politics”, he said.

If you answered yes to either of those questions and you don’t feel the same way right now about the connections between Donald Trump’s campaign and Russian Federation, you need to ask yourself: What is the difference between these two men?

“I’d like him to explain what was said during that September 8th meeting. And this applies to every ambassador”, Peskov stressed, adding that Tefft “has plenty of contacts with Russian MPs and it is quite normal”.

“There may be nothing there”, Mr Graham said this week.