pressure sessions to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate hillary clinton. thereby, i think they think, distracting from the mueller investigation. it s time, folks. it s time to shut it down, turn the tables and lock her up. that s what i said. i actually said it. lock her up. the president has been publicly pressing sessions to investigate clinton, tweeting everybody is asking why the justice department, fbi, isn t looking to do all the dishonesty going on with crooked hillary and the dems. and at some point, the justice department, fbi, must do what is right and proper. yesterday, the doj replied to letters from congressional republicans on that very matter, saying, the attorney general has directed senior federal prosecutors to evaluate certain issues, raised in your letters. and then advise sessions about whether a special counsel was needed. today, sessions battled members of his own party, over whether appointing a prosecutor to investigate the president s chief polit
do you know? i talked to general flynn yesterday. and the conversations that took place at that time were not in any way related to new u.s. sanctions against russia or the expulsion of democrats. just to button up one question, did any adviser or anyone in the trump campaign have any contact with the russians who were trying to meddle in the election? oh, of course not. the story today that former national security adviser, michael flynn, has filed with the department of justice as a foreign agent? well, let me say, hearing that story today was the first i heard of it. you re disappointed about the story. the first i heard of it. did the president fire direct comey to impede the russia investigation? well, as you know, very clearly, as has been stated repeatedly and the president has been told, he s not under investigation. but intelligence officials have said there s investigation
reporter: later after explaining he did meet with kislyak, sessions promised to recuse himself from the russia investigation. i should not be involved investigating a campaign i had a role in. reporter: months later sessions was also asked about another possible undisclosed meeting with dkislyak at mayflower hotel. they were both there in april of 2016 for donald trump s foreign policy speech. sessions said he did not recall talking to kislyak there, despite the ousted fbi director saying they intercepted russian communications suggesting the two men had talked. kislyak who s been ambassador for nine years also met with trump transition team member general michael flynn. flynn met with kislyak last december. later flynn misrepresented the nature of his conversations with kislyak to the white house, including the vice president. i talked to general flynn
trump s foreign policy speech. sessions said he did not recall talking to kislyak there, despite the ousted fbi director saying they intercepted russian communications suggesting the two men had talked. kislyak who s been ambassador for nine years also met with trump transition team member general michael flynn. flynn met with kislyak last december. later flynn misrepresented the nature of his conversations with kislyak to the white house, including the vice president. i talked to general flynn yesterday. and the conversations that took place at that time were not in any way related to new u.s. sanctions. reporter: that wasn t true. transcripts show flynn did discuss sanctions with kislyak. he was fired for misleading the vice president. joining flynn and ambassador kislyak at the trump tower meeting was the president s son-in-law, jared kushner met
hearing that story today was the first i heard of it, and i fully support the decision that president trump made to ask for general flynn s resignation. you re disappointed by the story? the first i heard of it. i talked to general flynn yesterday, and the conversations that took place at that time were not in any way related to new u.s. sanctions. vice president pence under fire today for what he did or did not know about the former nsa michael flynn s involvement with foreign governments. we re joined now live from washington. you ve got all the sources on this story. you ve been having all the conversations, doing great work. so is the vice president being kept in the dark or to the being truthful? reporter: i just got off the phone and talked with an aide out of the vice president s office. and what they did just now is essentially piggyback on the