Rare Warning to Trump From Hill GOP Leader
Source: Roll Call
Firing Sessions could poison president’s agenda in Senate, Cornyn says
Posted Jul 26, 2017 7:44 PM
The Senate majority’s No. 2 leader has given President Trump one of the strongest pushbacks from any Republican in Congress this year: Firing Attorney General Jeff Sessions could bring to a halt GOP cooperation with the administration’s legislative agenda.
“Well, it’s the president prerogative, but he is then going to jeopardize, potentially, his ability to get anything else done here,” Majority Whip John Cornyn told reporters Wednesday. “And I don't think that should be his desire or preference.”
Cornyn, a former Texas attorney general and justice on the state Supreme Court, said he continues to view Sessions as “doing just a fine job” running he Justice Department and someone who “did the right thing” — for that sake of his own credibility and that of the department — by recusing himself from the FBI’s investigation into Russian election meddling.
Sessions did so after conceding he’s had contacts with Russia during the 2016 campaign, when he was a senator from Alabama and one of Trump’s most prominent surrogates and political counselors.
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