Sen. Franken Demands Attorney General Jeff Sessions Explain Himself Amid New Trump-Russia Revelation

[workinclasszero]

Sen. Franken Demands Attorney General Jeff Sessions Explain Himself Amid New Trump-Russia Revelations
Thursday, November 2, 2017

Today, U.S. Senator Al Franken put the pressure on Attorney General Jeff Sessions to explain why he continues to mislead the American public and Congress about his and other members of the Trump team’s many alarming connections to Russia, a hostile foreign power that interfered in the 2016 presidential election in an attempt to aid Donald Trump.

This week, newly unsealed court documents in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of that interference showed that George Papadopoulos—a Trump campaign foreign policy adviser who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about ties between the Trump campaign and Russian officials—attended a March 2016 campaign meeting with then-candidate Trump, then-Sen. Sessions, and others to discuss the possibility of setting up a meeting between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Yet in January of this year, at his own confirmation hearing to become attorney general, Sessions testified under oath to Sen. Franken that he was unaware of any contacts between the Trump campaign and Russian officials. That later turned out not to be true—Sessions himself met with the Russian Ambassador at least three times.

https://www.franken.senate.gov/?p=press_release&id=3798

[ffr]

1. That man is as serious as a heart attack.

[L. Coyote]

7. Yep: "AG Jeff Sessions has repeatedly had difficulty with the truth ...."

Link to tweet

[MyOwnPeace]

2. BOOM!!!!!!!!!

HE 'DA MAN!!!!!!!!!

THIS is who we need to be leading the Democrats in this fight to save our country!

Go get 'em, AL!!!!!!!!!!!!

[workinclasszero]

5. Al is da man!

[Lifelong Protester]

3. Just want to say:

Go, Al!!

His latest book is pretty good, too.

[Freethinker65]

4. USAG takes the 5th

[ProfessorGAC]

6. Or, He Admits He's Done

There were doubts about that scumbag's integrity when he was lawyer in his "country" of Alabama
He's still fighting the civil war
He needs to go down hard and do the jail time he deserves, since the 80's

[The Genealogist]

8. I hope the smarmy little shit is shaking in his boots

Love Senator Franken! It will be him and people like him who save this nation from the right wing hell it is descending into. GIVE EM HELL AL!!!

[Wellstone ruled]

9. And to think,Al and Sessions

were friends.

[3catwoman3]

10. When you get a letter with...

...footnotes/references, you are likely in trouble.