Top Democrats call for Sessions resignation after bombshell report he lied about Russian contacts

[Miles Archer]

Source: Raw Story

Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) on Wednesday called for Attorney General Jeff Sessions to resign after reporters that he spoke with Russian ambassador Sergery Kislyak twice during the 2016 presidential campaign, despite testifying under oath that he did not have communications with the Russians.

“When Senator Sessions testified under oath that ‘I did not have communications with the Russians,’ his statement was demonstrably false, yet he let it stand for weeks,” Cummings said in a statement. “He continued to let it stand even as he watched the President tell the entire nation he didn’t know anything about anyone advising his campaign talking to the Russians.”

House Minority leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) also called for Sessions’ resignation, releasing a statement insisting Attorney General “Sessions is not fit to serve as the top law enforcement officer of our country.”

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), who Wednesday revealed that the House Intelligence Committee will officially investigate the Trump campaign’s contact with Russian officials, said it’s “essential” that Session recuse himself from any investigation into the president’s ties to the Kremlin.

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2017/03/top-democrats-call-for-sessions-resignation-after-bombshell-report-he-lied-about-russian-contacts/

[NastyRiffraff]

1. Sessions should resign immediately

I know Dump won't ask him to; he's too useful to him, and probably has important Russian connections. Lying to Congress on a VERY important, relevant subject in his confirmation hearings should be an automatic disqualifier.

[joet67]

8. MSNBC just reported that he released a statement at 11:30. Very short.

Andrea Mitchell said (paraphrased): "What's important is not only what it says, but what it doesn't say".

[msongs]

2. real source of this: thehill.com rawstory retreads other people's work

http://thehill.com/homenews/house/321937-cummings-calls-on-sessions-to-resign

[retread]

34. Hey! Watch it!

[zentrum]

3. Hoping hard...

.....but not holding my breath.

[Abouttime]

33. Sessions is toast

And this guarantees a special prosecutor.
tRump will be out of office before Labor Day, this is the smoking gun. Game over, we win.

[ProudLib72]

4. Will Sessions disappear into the mist

like Flynn? Or will he stick around to answer a few questions:

"Mr. Sessions, are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?"

[StevieM]

6. Who are we kidding? He's going nowhere.

In the word of alternative facts, Jeff Sessions has done nothing wrong.

And that is the world that we now live in.

[Skittles]

22. lying under oath? really?

[Nitram]

35. They impeached Clinton for lying under oath about an affair. Sessions slied under oath about

the subject of several investigations in which he is participating directly or indirectly. He can't squirm out of this one. Just hope Trump doesn't bomb North Korea as a distraction.

[Skittles]

41. first thing I see when I log in is Trump wearing military stuff

besides making me feel extremely sick (both as a veteran and as an American), I thought exactly the same thing

[dalton99a]

5. Kick.

[BainsBane]

7. He was under oath at the time

It's perjury.

[brer cat]

10. Remember when a President

was impeached for lying under oath? Hypocritical asses.

[BainsBane]

21. Yep, I sure do.

[chelsea0011]

25. "rule of law', rule of law". Yep. Remember it well.

[TomCADem]

15. Sessions' NEW Explanation - Russian Communications Were Not Related to Trump's Campaign

What's next? He had his fingers crossed when he answer Al Franken's question, so the lie does not count?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/mar/02/jeff-sessions-russian-ambassador-trump-campaign

A spokeswoman for Sessions confirmed that the meetings took place, but provided a statement from the attorney general saying they were not related to the election campaign.

“I never met with any Russian officials to discuss issues of the campaign,” Sessions’ statement said.

[Purrfessor]

17. The discussion was related to Clinton's campaign...

He hasn't denied this angle yet.

[duncang]

26. Or to tell the Russians they would fulfill his bosses promise.

Remember dipshit donnie promised whoever hacked his opposition would be "rewarded greatly". Lifting sanctions on Russia would be a nice reward.

[Nitram]

36. It doesn't matter what he discussed. The question was whether he had communication with

Russians during the campaign.

[FailureToCommunicate]

9. Sessions is not fit to serve as the top law enforcement officer of our country.

[Kablooie]

27. That's the most coveted quality for a Republican today.

you just gave him a glowing endorsement.
They wear this scarlet letter with pride.
That's Trumps new Republican party for ya.

[FailureToCommunicate]

32. It was Nancy Pelosi's statement. I should have had quote marks around it.

But you're right. That's a top requirement for a Republican government appointee in this new age of celebrating incompetence, hostility, and dismantlement.

[yuiyoshida]

11. I bet he won't resign nor will Trump fire him...

The Republicans are in power, they can do what ever they want and get away with it.

[dhill926]

20. you are exactly right.....

wish we were wrong...

[ffr]

12. Bush would promote him for that. Is there such a title as Executive Vice President?

Perhaps Assistant Vice President? Heck, make Sessions an honorary President of the United States. Why the fcuk not!!!

That ought to deflect any criticism, right Condi?

Two Months Before 9/11, an Urgent Warning to National Security Adviser Rice
After 9/11? Promoted to SoS. Whoohoo! Isn't it great to be in power?!!!


On July 10, 2001, two months before the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, then-CIA Director George J. Tenet met with his counterterrorism chief, J. Cofer Black, at CIA headquarters to review the latest on Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaeda terrorist organization.
<snip>

Tenet called Condoleezza Rice, then National Security Adviser... WaPo

[tenorly]

13. "But where will I go? Whut will I do!?"

You know the rest.

[ancianita]

14. Nancy Pelosi's official statement:

Jeff Sessions lied under oath during his confirmation hearing before the Senate. Under penalty of perjury, he told the Senate Judiciary Committee, ‘I have been called a surrogate at a time or two in that campaign and I did not have communications with the Russians.’ We now know that statement is false.

Attorney General Sessions has never had the credibility to oversee the FBI investigation of senior Trump officials’ ties to the Russians. That is why Democrats have consistently called for Sessions to recuse himself from any oversight of the investigation.

Now, after lying under oath to Congress about his own communications with the Russians, the Attorney General must resign. Sessions is not fit to serve as the top law enforcement officer of our country and must resign. There must be an independent, bipartisan, outside commission to investigate the Trump political, personal and financial connections to the Russians.

[rdking647]

16. he should be disbarred for lying to congress

[littlemissmartypants]

18. .

This whole cabinet is proving to be quite the circle jerk.

Caveat:
Apologies to sex positive folks everywhere.

[Ellipsis]

19. Any speculators on the odds on this? He looks toasted.

...Franken had him coming in. He's out of the senate too. Poof goes session into the night?

Heaven be praised.

[madokie]

24. Al Franken

is proving to be one of if not our best Senator bar none

I so wish we here in Oklahoma could have a congress critter of such stature.

[Tom Rinaldo]

37. He goes down when Trump goes down - not before

If Democrats led at least one house of Congress it might be different, but they don't. Sessions is part of the DNA of the Trump Administration. Republicans can't take either of them down until they have passed enough of their radical agenda under Trump's signature, under a shell appearance of normality before the real turmoil begins.

[Ellipsis]

40. Looks like a damn dust storm on the intertubes at the moment ... don't think he lasts the week.

Either way... it's a win win.

[madokie]

23. That little elfish looking weasel

worries the piss out of me. He has no scruples

[pfitz59]

28. I guess if the Attorney General can lie under oath

It'll be OK for everyone too! Let the Supreme Court decide the legitimacy of that!

[bucolic_frolic]

29. It's not that they're not going to get anywhere with this, it's the drip, drip

that undermines legitimacy in the public's mind

RESIST

The Trump Administration is being treated most like the British were
in the period preceding the American Revolution. They are an illegitimate
occupying army of incompetents. 2018 is the chance to boot them. Keep
the pedal to the metal. Visibly.

[George II]

30. Memories of Richard Nixon and John Mitchell - Mitchell was Nixon's Attorney General....

...and then chairman of the re-election campaign, the aptly nicknamed "CREEP". He eventually wound up going to jail.

[briv1016]

31. Wouldn't Sessons be the one that would have to bring charges?

Has an AG ever had to resign in scandle or had to bring charges against him/herself?

[yurbud]

38. Sessions has to resign for lying to Congress but Baby Bush was okay?

I would be glad to see Sessions go for any reason since he can't be trusted on civil rights and any number of issues, but they are drawing funny lines on lying. There are also any number of CEO's who have lied to Congress about the health risks of tobacco, climate change, and what they were telling their clients about mortgage backed derivatives.

[Javaman]

39. I'll be impressed if he resigned but I have a feeling...

that ain't happening.

just more from this crooked, russian loving administration.