White House Staff Reportedly Told To Keep Documents On Russia-Trump Contacts

“I will reveal a military secret to you: Diplomats work, and their work consists of carrying out contacts in the country where they are present”, Maria Zakharova, a spokesperson for the Russian Foreign Ministry, told the Times. “A total hypocrite!” Mr. Trump said in the tweet.

The photograph shows Mr. Schumer and Mr. Al Franken’s question about allegations of communication between the Trump campaign and Russian Federation, and as a result he did not give a clear answer.

On Thursday, Sessions removed himself from any investigation amid furor over the revelation that he, during his Senate confirmation hearing, failed to disclose under questioning that he twice had met with the Russian ambassador past year. Sessions recalled how he told Kislyak that he had gone to Russian Federation with a church group in 1991. That said, if it wasn’t axiomatic before, it is now: the American people don’t respect the Congress, but you better not lie to them.

Such, however, is the way of the Trump administration.

Then-Senator Sessions had two encounters with the Russian Ambassador previous year.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions has responded to a political hit piece from The Washington Post and a subsequent onslaught from Democrats over the fake news that he met with Russians before President Trump took office. It marks Trump’s fourth weekend of his presidency at “The Winter White House”.

“I never had meetings with Russian operatives or Russian intermediaries about the Trump campaign”, Sessions said Thursday.

And in the case of Russia, some lawmakers would have good reason to have a meeting with a Russian diplomat, but most would have “have little business with the Kremlin”, said John Pike, director of globalsecurity.org.

As for the Trump White House, it is once again in nothing-to-see-here mode, insisting this week that questions about Sessions’ meetings with the Russian ambassador are nothing more than “the latest attack against the Trump administration by partisan Democrats”.

But what makes Sessions’ dishonesty worse is that at the time of his false testimony, he was seeking to become attorney general – the nation’s highest law enforcement official.

Warren isn’t the only member of the MA delegation saying it is not enough for Sessions to just recuse himself from the investigation.

“Let me be clear”, Sessions said Thursday.

There’s nothing sinister about Sessions talking to the Russian ambassador, says Lew Rockwell, political analyst and author. Asked why he done so when his boss had said he shouldn’t, Mr Sessions looked momentarily flustered. Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar, who sits on the Judiciary Committee, told The Huffington Post that she still wants the attorney general to explain why he gave members misleading information about his meetings with Russian officials.

The newly minted president can either tell everything about his – and his aides – contacts with Russian officials or he can order his administration to continue the delicate and unsafe dance of shaving the truth.

More importantly, senior members of Mr Trump’s team have sketched out a series of hard-nosed positions on contentious issues such as sanctions and Russia’s involvement in eastern Ukraine that sound a whole lot like the Obama administration’s positions.

JOHNSON: We don’t know much.

As a Ukrainian who made a decision to stay on in Russia after the break up of the USSR, Kislyak is considered somewhat of a traitor in Ukraine, which is at the heart of the resistance to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s apparent designs to recapture the lost glory associated with the Soviet Union that he saw collapse before his eyes as a member of the KGB, now called the FSB. “If the meetings held with Kislyak had nothing to do with the 2016 election.then there is no story here”, Amsterdam says.