this was in a letter saturday night it was sessions that said he would not appear at the standard hearing expected for tuesday about the budget for the department of justice. that s a regular thing that anyone running one of the agencies would do. he s not going to go to that public hearing, but instead will accept the invitation of the senate intelligence committee to sit with them, talk about the questions that they have, and he said that s moa more appropriat forum for him to answer these questions because he s recused himself on the russia investigation and doesn t believe it would be proper for him to talk about that in a public setting. so it also serves the purpose of taking him out of sort of the hot seat. a public televised hearing would certainly put political pressure on jeff sessions, so he can push that aside by having his deputy go to that and instead focus on the senate intelligence committee. so far the intelligence committee has not provided any specifics about when th