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i have recused myself in the matters that deal with the trump campaign. that statement by the attorney general on thursday came after the washington post revealed that sessions met twice last year with russian ambassador sergei kislyak. sessions scrambled to clarify. in retrospect i should have slowed down, but i did meet one russian official a couple of times and that would be the ambassador. sessions met with kislyak on july 18th, after speaking with a group of ambassadors in the republican convention and he met again with the russian ambassador at his office on september 8th, just three days after president obama took a hard line on russian sanctions in a g-20 meeting with vladimir putin. since the election, trump and his surrogates have repeatedly denied any contacted between the campaign and russian officials. i m telling you it s all phony, baloney garbage. all of the contact by the trump campaign and the associates was with the american people. you are not ....
it gave no means of tracing this back to the source, but it had a lot of information in it about things that had been happening in trump tower. and it appeared to be from somebody inside the transition or inside trump tower who was concerned about what this person was seeing. and a lot of what s written or conveyed in this letter has sort of come become true over time. it s taken a while for a lot of this stuff to surface, including this detail about this discussion over a back channel or a private channel of communications with moscow. again i just want to i m trying to sort of bend over to read this as charitably as possible. so i mean is it possible that they were setting up lots of different back channels with lots of different foreign leaders? well, we don t i mean i suppose it s possible. clearly they were in communication and meeting with a lot of leaders, a lot of foreign leaders. most of them, as you point out, were coming through the front door, not the bac ....
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linked that same group to those who perpetrated the attack in charlottesville. i don t know i can t tell you i m sure senator mccain must know what he s talking about. but when you say the alt-right, definal right to me. you define it. define it for me, come on. define it. senator mccain defined them as the same group what about the alt-left that came charging at the, as you say the alt-right, do they have any semblance of guilt? let me ask you this, what about the fact that they came charging with clubs in their hands, swinging clubs, do they have any problem? i think they do. as far as i m concerned, that was a horrible, horrible day wait a minute, i m not finished. i m not finished, fake news. that was a horrible day. [ inaudible question ] i will tell you something, i watched this much more closely nationalist rally in charlottesville, the facts were plain before, during and after the bloodshed. the fact that the president had ht his disposal saturday, a fact ....
government aid, investigators are taking another look at potential evidence collected as far back as 2015 according to the wall street journal. minutes ago the president boarded air force one en route to france where he ll meet tomorrow with french president emmanuel macron. the last time the president was on air force one was a few days ago. it was at the g-20 where he held his first face to face meeting with president putin. during that trip the president was involved in producing the false statement given to the new york times about the previously held meeting last summer. a small cadre of president s advisers huddled in a cabin helping to craft a statement for the president s eldest son explaining why he met last summer with a lawyer connected to the russian government. ultimately, the times reports, the president himself signed off i wouldn t have even remembered it until you start scouring through this. it was a wasted 20 minutes which was a shame. the president re ....