The attorney general to resign, but as you mention just a moment ago, he does have the full support of the president who in a Statement Last night in a series of tweets said the following. Jeff sessions is an honest man. He did not say anything wrong. He could have stated his response more accurately, but it was clearly not intentional. This whole narrative is a way of saving face for democrats losing an election that everyone thought they were supposed to win. The democrats are overplaying their hand. They lost the election, and now they have lost their grip on reality. The real story is all of the illegal leaks of classified and other information. It is a total witch hunt yesterday, the attorney general recused himself from any doj investigation that might a arise regarding the chum campaign and any encounters with the Russian Ambassador. Sessions ran into trouble when he told the senate and confirmation hearings that he had no contact last year with russian officials. Sessions argue
Starts right now. Good evening. Im katy tur from new york. In for chuck todd. To the president involving embattled attorney general Jeff Sessions. Moments ago sessions held a press Conference Announcing he is recusing himself from any investigation involving the Trump Campaign. I asked for the candid and honest opinion about what i should do about investigations. Se certain investigations. My staff recommended recusal. They said that since i had involvement with the campaign i should not be involved in any campaign investigation. I believe those recommendations are right and just. Therefore, i have recused myself in the matters that deal with the Trump Campaign. Sessions announcement comes after a growing chorus of republicans joined countless democrats in calling for the a. G. To step aside from an investigation into contact between Trump Campaign officials and russian officials. Many democrats even wanting him to step down. The fury comes after the department of justice confirmed rep
President s maralago estate. What are you hearing from the fbi that the Justice Department came forward asked the Justice Department to come forward and knock down the president s claims. Probably has never happened before, pamela, as you know from covering this. Its a pretty Extraordinary Development. So sometime over the weekend, the fbi went to the department of justice and requested and asked them in conversations to refute basically President Trump to say, hey, this did not happen. These allegations that hes made that president obama was involved in some sort of wiretapping of his phone. By extension, i think the director was concerned that the fbi would somehow be blamed for this. And quite frankly, by this request, the fbi is saying this did not happen. We did not wiretap his phones. Yesterday we spoke with a former senior Law Enforcement official who had direct knowledge of the investigation from the department of justice. They, too, confirmed this never happened. So today were
In cleveland. That i may have met him possibly, might have been in cleveland. So many people having so many contacts and not remembering, it doesnt make sense. Theyre either the most forgetful team in political history or the most intimate with russia. Good day everyone. Im Andrea Mitchell in washington. As the political fallout continues over attorney general Jeff Sessions misleading answers about his meeting with the russian am was for. President trump remains steadfast in supporting his earliest senate endorser after the attorney generals selective memory of his september meeting with Sergey Kislyak. I dont remember a lot of it but i do remember saying i had gone to russia with a church group in 1991. We talked a little bit about terrorism as i recall and somehow the subject of the ukraine came up. He said something about inviting me to have lunch. I did not accept that. I dont recall any specific political discussion. The top democrat on the House Intelligence Committee adam schiff
Ambassador at the center of this kris . Is he a diplomat . Or as many people are saying in washington, d. C. Today, a spy . Are the Democrats Holding the Administration Accountable or are they, once again, overplaying their hand. . We have another big lineup this morning including the top House Democrat on the Intelligence Committee, congressman adam schiff. Also a member of the Senate Intelligence committee senator angus king and member of the Richard Blumenthal and ambassador mike mcfaul. Mika is down with the weather this morning. We have willie geist and John Heilemann and Nick Confessore and ai ari melber and kasie hun. Yesterday morning i got the sense we were going to be spending the next few days talking about an administration stonewalling and not getting it. Now, of course, Jeff Sessions moves out pretty quickly and follows the advice of a lot of us had around the set, which is get out there and recuse yourself and try to get that part of the story behind us. As we are saying