Honored that recusal with regard to matters pending the Department Of Justice, but i just want to comment on what may have been on anybody elses mind or offer any opinion about that because its not for me to make those decisions. Well, it is exactly, i think, why Senator Schatz asked a whole series of questions about the scope of recusal, because i am a lawyer. Senator schatz may not be. He asked better questions than i did, but i also am having real difficulty understanding the scope of the recusal, its contours in definition, and i have an unresolved question about whether or not thats why the Attorney General failed to appear before us today, is to avoid having to answer direct questions about the scope of his recusal. I do appreciate and respect your appointment of a highly talented Special Counsel, and there have been questions from both sides that imply strong support for his independence and his conduct, and i appreciate the care with which you are answering my questions, but im
it s been a few weeks they re talking about a health care bill. they ve had seven years. we ran on repeal of obamacare. that s not too hard to unpack the meaning of that phrase. and so, seven years later, it is a little bit shocking, and we need $1 trillion, which is a thousand billion, to do tax reform. so, if you lose the border adjustable piece on tax reform and you don t have the health care trillion, that s $2 trillion, that we need in order to do tax reform. and so, any day now, we re waiting. a lot of us voted for a bill we didn t think was perfect, but at least it solves kind of, it stabilized the health care market for the short run. and so, i hope they feel a little bit more urgency and get a bill through, like now. are you comfortable you know, some would say the argument is, the secretive nature of what s going on in the senate is out of necessity, because if it s out in the public, everyone s going to just go back to their corners, all the main issues are going to hold
doj talk about? sessions, obviously, said that he told comey there are those lines, but comey says it a little bit differently and says sessions just stared at him blankly. the next thing is, did sessions of offer to resign? last week, cnn and others reported that the relationship had fractured a bit. but i am told that sessions has no plans to resign. but if he did offer, why? and we re told that the president didn t accept it. so, senators are going to certainly want to probe him on that and get to the bottom of it. the next is, what exactly is doj s position on the support for special counsel bob mueller? the trump confidante, chris ruddy, is now saying that the president of the united states is considering terminating mueller, but the deputy attorney general, rod rosenstein, is up on the hill right now saying that there are regulations in place, and that decision isn t up to the president. and last but not least, how many times exactly did sessions meet with the russian ambassador,