Since james comeys testimony last week when the fired fbi director briefed senators in a closed hearing that sessions may have met with kislyak for a third undisclosed meeting at the mayflower motel. I did not have any private meetings nor do i recall any conversations with any russian officials at the mayflower hotel. His denial was concise but when press bid chairman richard burr his answer seemed less clear. I would have gladly have reported the meeting, the encounter that may have occurred, that some say occurred, in the mayflower if i had remembered it or if it actually occurred, which i dont remember that it did. Reporter sessions remained stern and emotional as he fought back against all allegations he had improper contacts with russians during the campaign. And the suggestion that i participated in any collusion, that i was aware of any collusion with the russian government to hurt this country, which i have served with honor for 35 years, or to undermine the integrity of our d
This, this disease has never had a more worthy opponents. This is looming large over health care, a group of about 20 senators met late last night as they try to forge a path forward on undoing obamacare, good morning, i am sandra smith live on a busy day. Rick all this surrounding President Trump and attorney Jeff Sessions, he never would have appointed sessions if he had known that he would recuse himself from the russian investigation. Live it from the north lawn of the white house, where a lot is going on today. Good morning. That interview with the New York Times, the president pulled a pen on another grenade, if you will, if there is any doubt that he was very upset by a Jeff Sessions decision to recuse himself last spring in the russian investigation. That was laid to rest last night, the president flat out saying that had he known, had he had any inkling that sessions would recuse himself when the going got tough, he never would have given him the job. Sessions it should have n
Wisconsin where hell visit a Technical College as part of whats called fork worse development week. Lets bring in our reporters for a preview of sessions testimony, the latest on the russia investigation. We have our cnn senior congressional reporter manu raju up on capitol hill. Justice reporter Laura Jarrett is in washington. Our National Correspondent Jason Carroll covering the white house. Manu, give us a preview of how this hearing is likely to unfold. A lot of tough questions likely to face Jeff Sessions, wolf. This is the first time he has testified publicly since he was confirmed by the Senate Earlier this year. Questions about Jeff Sessions interactions with the Russian Ambassador and any of the russians that he had as a surrogate for the Trump Campaign including those two previously undisclosed meetings with the Russian Ambassador and whether there was actually a third meeting he did not disclose during his confirmation proceedings. In addition senators tell me they want to a
Senator franken read off of the adjustments to Jeff Sessions testimony to his story since his confirmation hearing. Yeah. And Jeff Sessions today insisting to senator franken as far as hes concerned no surrogates for the Trump Campaign met with the russians. When he himself now admitted that hes one of the trump surrogate that is meat with russians in the campaign. That shrug and response from the attorney general is going to end up being important and senator franken got that out of him today, too. One of the things thats stunning to me as a student of the senate is Jeff Sessions used to be the chairman of that committee and former chairmen are treated like gods in those committees for the rest of their lives. No matter what theyre doing in that room. And this guy has had the roughest ride that any former chairmans ever had appearing before his own committee again. Well, you know, if you want to avoid that, lying to the colleagues, a, pretend its an accident and, b, say youre sorry an
Department held by the politically embattled Jeff Sessions quite a few times. To reporters before departing on a 12day asia trip complained on the radio, on twitter again on twitter and a few more times because he wants sessions and the doj to stop special counsel bob mueller from investigating him and start investigating, you guessed it, Hillary Clinton. Lock her up lock her up . The undemocratic zeal to jail his opponent havent stopped the investigation into russia involvement into our election. The moving right along. It appears theyre zeroing in on Jeff Sessions, too. Mueller unveiled documents that said sessions testimony under oath, that he was not aware of any Trump Campaign surrogates communicating with russians was something other than accurate. By the way, this is a crime, lying to the senate. One this in particular call the veracity into question. This. We know donald trump tweeted it out in march of 2016 as way to brag about his campaigns National Security and Foreign Polic