Sessions: I Didn't Discuss Campaign With Russians

[DonViejo]

Source: The Daily Beast

NBC News cameras caught up with U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Thursday, the morning after reports emerged that he had spoken twice with Russias ambassador to the U.S. during the 2016 campaigna fact he did not disclose during his Senate confirmation hearings. I have not met with any Russians at any time to discuss any political campaign, Sessions told NBC News, continuing his camps insistence that while he met with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, he did not mislead anyone by not disclosing the conversations. According to Sessions and his spokesperson, the meetings were entirely unrelated to the 2016 presidential campaign, despite the ex-senators role as a prominent Trump surrogate. Additionally, Sessions told NBC News that he will recuse himself from the Department of Justices probe of Russian meddling in the election whenever its appropriate.

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Sessions willing to recuse himself from Russia investigation

BY MARK HENSCH AND REBECCA SAVRANSKY - 03/02/17 08:00 AM EST

Attorney General Jeff Sessions said early Thursday that he would be willing to recuse himself from any investigation of Russian involvement in the Trump campaign if it's "appropriate."

"I have said whenever it's appropriate, I will recuse myself," he told NBC News. "There's no doubt about that."

Reports emerged late Wednesday that Sessions spoke twice with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak during the 2016 presidential campaign. Sessions did not disclose those conversations during his confirmation hearings for attorney general, testifying under oath that he “did not have communications with the Russians.”

Sessions defended himself during his comments with NBC News, saying he didn't discuss the presidential campaign with Russian officials.

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http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/321947-sessions-denies-talking-campaign-with-russia

[nycbos]

1. To quote Will Smith from iRobot

[Botany]

2. " .... the meetings were entirely unrelated to the 2016 presidential campaign ...."

So the 2016 RNC was not related to the Presidential campaign?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028733590

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

3. Like I said elsewhere. I believe he's telling the "truthiness":

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=8733651

[thesquanderer]

4. Funny how he can't remember what they talked about...

...yet he can remember what they didn't talk about.

[Botany]

10. Just like Trump's lawyer isn't sure if he a met a Russian agent in .....

.... Manhattan then went to Washington D.C. and the White House and
then hand delivered a sealed envelope from the Russian agent to Gen. Flynn
or if he just met the Russian agent in NYC and then threw away the
envelope from the agent after "the very short meeting."


http://www.cnbc.com/2017/02/20/trump-lawyer-sent-flynn-a-plan-to-lift-russia-sanctions-report.html

[randome]

14. Good one!

[hr][font color="blue"][center]A ton of bricks, a ton of feathers, it's still gonna hurt.[/center][/font][hr]

[bucolic_frolic]

5. Ah! The subject doesn't matter anymore

It's about perjury now.

[Cracklin Charlie]

6. You lied under oath, J. B.

The only honorable choice is resignation.

[shraby]

7. I don't think he was asked if he had contact about the campaign. He was asked if he

had any contact and he denied he did.

[CanonRay]

8. They are at the freaking convention, but didn't discuss the campaign?

Really. That's what I'm supposed to believe?

[randome]

18. Don't go by what he said under oath. Go by what's in his heart!

[hr][font color="blue"][center]A ton of bricks, a ton of feathers, it's still gonna hurt.[/center][/font][hr]

[CanonRay]

19. I'm sure Jeebus already forgave him!

[JudyM]

22. Heart? What heart?

[yallerdawg]

9. We have a White House and cabinet which has disassociated itself...

from fact and truth as a matter of policy!

These are sad, tragic days for our country.

[turbinetree]

11. Hey Sessions rule number one when you speak with someone from Russia

they are agents of a foreign state, and most likely Intelligence agent even if they have Ambassadors in front of there name.

They are spies, they are appointed to positions, there is no "confirmation" hearings, dip sh*t


Amazing RESIGN

[ffr]

12. Wait! So you admit your perjured yourself. Oh my! Caught red handed. Literally red handed.

LIAR! Double liar. You're the Attorney General of the United States of America and YOU ARE A LIAR that lied under oath to congress.

You're going to jail!

[Lochloosa]

13. I DON'T GIVE A FLYING FUCK WHAT HE TALKED ABOUT. YOU LIED UNDER OATH!

[CountAllVotes]

26. +1,000,000

n/t

[MosheFeingold]

15. Were these meet-and-greets

Or actual meetings? Does anyone know?

[JudyM]

23. 1 was a meeting in Sessions' office. The other was an off to the side meeting at a convention.

[MosheFeingold]

24. You would think

There would be a very clear record of the office meeting. I worked in the capital along time.

One goes through security several places, have to be on lists, on camera the entire time, etc. All that stuff is checked, signed, stamped and exists in triplicate with circles and arrows on the back to quote Arlo Gutherie. Probably shorthand minutes of the meeting, if not a recording, too.

I don't think much of the other meeting. I've been to a million of those and every ambassador and boot licker in the world comes up to everyone. I couldn't tell you who I met at one on the day I met them.

First one, however!

[JudyM]

25. Let's hope there is some substantive record, it'd be so fabulous if that goon could be booted.

[hollowdweller]

16. The republicans so far were more successful at using "Chinagate"

To defeat Al Gore and the democrats than the democrats have been at using the Russian hacking.

They were also more successful at using Benghazi to weaken Clinton than the democrats were at using 9/11, fake Iraq intelligence, and the financial collapse to keep a democratic majority.

[BumRushDaShow]

20. Both cases that you cite leaves out the fact that

the GOP controlled both chambers of Congress during both of those time frames and controlled the investigations and narratives. When Democrats controlled both (under Nixon), the reverse occurred.

[DeminPennswoods]

17. The transcripts will come out

In the NYT story, the actual transcripts of the calls from Flynn to Kislyak was cited to give more detail in what they talked about. I expect the same to come out shortly about Sessions' calls/meetings.

[displacedtexan]

21. He lied under oath and NOW we're supposed to believe anything he says?

I'd like to see his usual self-satisfied smirk face this morning, wouldn't you? I hope he's biting his pillow.

[Dave Starsky]

27. They were just talking about...

why t.A.T.u doesn't have hit records anymore.