Under fire, Trump’s attorney general removes himself from campaign probes

There was “no communication” between Trump’s team and Russian Federation during the campaign and transition, except for communication with Russian Federation by Trump’s future national security adviser, his future attorney general and his son-in-law and two others.

The Washington Post reported on March 1 that unnamed Justice Department officials noted that Sessions spoke twice previous year with the Russian Ambassador to the U.S. Sergey Kislyak. Attorney General Sessions’ impartiality was already suspect, now we know he does not have the integrity to lead the Department of Justice. Sessions had said under oath that he’d had no contacts with Russian officials about the campaign, but in fact he’d met twice with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak – once during the GOP convention, and later in his office after allegations about Russian attempts to sway the election had started to swirl.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions will recuse himself from any investigations into contact between the Russian government and Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, Sessions announced at a press conference Thursday afternoon. A spokesperson said Mr Sessions did not consider the conversations relevant to the senators’ questions and did not remember in detail what he discussed with Mr Kislyak. No call or meeting w/Russian ambassador.

“After lying under oath to Congress about his own communications with the Russian, the attorney general must resign”, she said.

Mr Peskov argued it was normal for an ambassador to meet with officials and politicians, adding that “the more such meetings an ambassador has, the more efficient his work is”.

Charles C.W. Cooke, editor of the National Review Online, tweeted images of two McCaskill tweets about the Russian ambassador.

On Twitter this morning, Senator Claire McCaskill claimed that she has had “no call or meeting w/Russian ambassador”.

It’s a “widely attended event and.no one remembers seeing him there”, the NDI spokesperson said, later adding, “We talked about a lot, and he’s not like somebody that you wouldn’t notice”.

The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Sessions was not now a “target” of the probe by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Treasury Department, the CIA and the National Security Agency. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) testifies at a Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing for Sessions to become U.S. attorney general on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S. January 10, 2017. “It’s possible. I’m on the Armed Services Committee but I don’t recall”.

And Nunes appeared to prejudge the outcome of his committee’s investigation on Monday, telling reporters that intelligence officials had shared with him the high points of their investigations and that he had seen no evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Moscow. Rosenstein is the USA attorney for Maryland, one of the only George W. Bush-appointed US attorneys that President Barack Obama kept in place, the Washington Post reports.

Mr Sessions’ team has pushed back at suggestions that Mr Sessions had lied to, or mislead the senators. That’s clearly false, and she can not blame the 140-character limit on Twitter. Of course, the last time someone said this about a Cabinet pick things didn’t go so well.