sessions even knows about russia s interference in our 2016 election. even more stunning when you remember before joining the trump administration, sessions was a member of the senate armed services committee. do you believe the russians interfered with the 2016 elections? it appears so. the intelligence community seems to be united in that. but i have to tell you, senator king, i know nothing but what i ve read in the paper. you never asked for a briefing or attended a briefing or read the intelligence reports? you might have been very critical of me if i, as an active part of the campaign, was seeking intelligence relating to something that might be relevant to the campaign. i m not sure that would have been i m not talking about the campaign. i m talking about what the russians did. you received no briefing on the russian active measures in connection with the 2016 election? no, i don t believe i ever did. when we say today s testimony was at times unsatisfying,
for 35 years, or to undermine the integrity of our democratic process is an apauling and detestable lie. i recuse myself from any investigation into the campaign for president. but i did not recuse myself from defending my honor against secure lous and false allegations. general sessions, respectfully, you are not answering the question. what is the question? the question is, mr. comey said that there were matters with respect to the recusal that were problematic, and he couldn t talk about them. what are they? that why don you tell me? there are none, senator widen. there are nonele i can tell you that for absolute certainty. we can you tell this is a secret innuendo being leaked out there about me, and i don t appreciate it. people are suggesting sort of
for president. but i did not recuse myself from defending my honor against secure lous and false allegations. general sessions, respectfully, you are not answering the question. what is the question? the question is, mr. comey said that there were matters with respect to the recusal that were problematic, and he couldn t talk about them. what are they? that why don t you tell me? there are none, senator widen. there are nonele i can tell you that for absolute certainty. we can you tell this is a secret innuendo being leaked out there about me, and i don t appreciate it. people are suggesting sort of innuendo that i have been not honest about matters and i ve tried to be honest. there were also many questions sessions refused to answer, not claiming executive
and now you are not answering questions. you are impeding this investigation. the attorney general was also pressed on whether trump is recording white house conversations. he said he didn t know. and there was a rather stunning back and forth over how much sessions even knows about russia s interference in our 2016 election. even more stunning when you remember before joining the trump administration sessions was a member of the senate armed services committee. do you believe the russians interfered with the 2016 elections? it appears so. the intelligence community seems to be united in that. but i have to tell you senator king, i know nothing about what i ve read in the paper. you never asked for a briefing or attended a briefing or read the intelligence reports? you might have been very critical of me if i as an active part of the campaign was seeking intelligence rhetting to something that might be relevant to the campaign. auto i m not sure that would
party but they don t have a strategy yet how the deal with it. there is talk how to deal with the special counsel bob mueller. really they don t know what exactly to do to make it all go away. areamy, a two part question for. part one, did you see a headline emerge to you from today? part one, brian, i would say that the whole invocation of executive privilege or executive privilege light because he really wasn t invoking the privilege was very confusing. it was sort of a weapon of mass confusion that was detonated in hearing room. i don t think even the justice department understood itself what it was arguing today. it was saying if the president chooses to invoke this we won t answer the questions. and i think the senator is left with many more questions they still have yet to ask. that brings me to part two. if people were left wanting by sessions invoguing this rule of his choosing and not answering