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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSources contradict Sessions' testimony he opposed Russia outreach
Exclusive: Sources contradict Sessions' testimony he opposed Russia outreach
Source: Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions testimony that he opposed a proposal for President Donald Trumps 2016 campaign team to meet with Russians has been contradicted by three people who told Reuters they have spoken about the matter to investigators with Special Counsel Robert Mueller or congressional committees.
Sessions testified before Congress in November 2017 that he pushed back against the proposal made by former campaign adviser George Papadopoulos at a March 31, 2016 campaign meeting. Then a senator from Alabama, Sessions chaired the meeting as head of the Trump campaigns foreign policy team.
Yes, I pushed back, Sessions told the House Judiciary Committee on Nov. 14, when asked whether he shut down Papadopoulos proposed outreach to Russia. Sessions has since also been interviewed by Mueller.
Three people who attended the March campaign meeting told Reuters they gave their version of events to FBI agents or congressional investigators probing Russian interference in the 2016 election. Although the accounts they provided to Reuters differed in certain respects, all threes, who declined to be identified, said Sessions had expressed no objections to Papadopoulos idea.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-sessions-exclusive/exclusive-sources-contradict-sessions-testimony-he-opposed-russia-outreach-idUSKBN1GU0NC
Source: Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions testimony that he opposed a proposal for President Donald Trumps 2016 campaign team to meet with Russians has been contradicted by three people who told Reuters they have spoken about the matter to investigators with Special Counsel Robert Mueller or congressional committees.
Sessions testified before Congress in November 2017 that he pushed back against the proposal made by former campaign adviser George Papadopoulos at a March 31, 2016 campaign meeting. Then a senator from Alabama, Sessions chaired the meeting as head of the Trump campaigns foreign policy team.
Yes, I pushed back, Sessions told the House Judiciary Committee on Nov. 14, when asked whether he shut down Papadopoulos proposed outreach to Russia. Sessions has since also been interviewed by Mueller.
Three people who attended the March campaign meeting told Reuters they gave their version of events to FBI agents or congressional investigators probing Russian interference in the 2016 election. Although the accounts they provided to Reuters differed in certain respects, all threes, who declined to be identified, said Sessions had expressed no objections to Papadopoulos idea.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-sessions-exclusive/exclusive-sources-contradict-sessions-testimony-he-opposed-russia-outreach-idUSKBN1GU0NC
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Sources contradict Sessions' testimony he opposed Russia outreach (Original Post)
MelissaB
Mar 2018
OP
oh lying again to congress ........I see, i predict a jail cell in your future.
sunonmars
Mar 2018
#2
spanone
(135,816 posts)1. there's not an honest broker in this entire administration
sunonmars
(8,656 posts)2. oh lying again to congress ........I see, i predict a jail cell in your future.
dalton99a
(81,433 posts)3. The Lack Of Candor
MelissaB
(16,420 posts)4. Anybody think this is the beginning of blowback for McCabe's firing?
MelissaB
(16,420 posts)5. Boom from the baby canon.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)6. The republican Perjurer General cannot be trusted
He has pissed away all honor & credibility in service to Comrade Dirty Donny, the ignoble republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief.