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Sessions under renewed scrutiny on Capitol Hill

Shard Shinjuku

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http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/02/politics/jeff-sessions-congress-russia-trump-campaign/index.html

Sessions under renewed scrutiny on Capitol Hill
By Manu Raju, Evan Perez and Marshall Cohen, CNN

Updated 12:51 PM ET, Thu November 2, 2017




Washington (CNN)Attorney General Jeff Sessions is once again under scrutiny on Capitol Hill regarding his candor about Russia and the Trump campaign amid revelations that he rejected a suggestion to convene a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump last year.

According to court filings unsealed this week, Trump campaign foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos suggested at a March 2016 meeting that he could use his connections to set up a meeting between Putin and Trump with the then-GOP candidate's national security team. An Instagram picture on Trump's account shows Sessions attended the meeting at which Papadopoulos made the suggestion.

After Trump declined to rule out the idea, Sessions weighed in and rejected the proposed meeting, according to a person who attended.
But Sessions, who was a top surrogate for Trump during the campaign, did not disclose these discussions despite a persistent set of questions from Democrats and some Republicans about Russia during multiple hearings on Capitol Hill. The new information is renewing attention to how forthcoming Sessions has been with Congress.
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Sephzilla

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Considering all of the pretty blatant perjury he's committed, this dude is totally going down at some point
 
Paches

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Dude has lied under oath before, won't be a surprise to see him in deep shit at some point down the road.
 

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Sessions is a documented liar. How many times has he perjured himself now? That scrutiny should never have dissipated.
 
Darryl M R

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So if you are white and wealthy perjury is just not a big deal?
 
EdibleKnife

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Here's a toast to the hopes that Session's life is destroyed. Lying, manipulative imp spent so much of his pathetic life focused on destroying the lives of minorities, he's way overdue for comeuppance
 

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To be fair, he rejected the proposed meeting between Putin and his presidential candidate. /foxnews
 
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Taurus Silver

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What's it gonna take to get rid of Sessions? Him admitting to be gay? Forcing his mistress to get an abortion? Saying Climate Change isn't a hoax?
 

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The article states he might be requested to testify again. Will we get honest answers this time from a man who has lied under oath before and who has every incentive to continue being dishonest?

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EssBeeVee

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Did trump say how it's unfair people are trying to attack session yet? and go back to talk about Uranium emails?
 
CHC

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As with all of these motherfuckers, Sessions probably could have told a series of "little" lies and been fine, but nope, he had to go for gold and now it's biting him in the ass.

Same principle underlies Manafort's dealings, and in fact, Trump's entire presidential bid.

Could have kept quiet and gotten away with all your little bullshit but instead were undone by your own ridiculous dumb ambitions.
 

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Because he had to recuse himself is the reason we got meuller. Trump wanted to fire sessions in order to fire meuler but couldnt because congress got pissed.

Remember when Trump was talking shit about sessions daily?

As soon as he's gone, Trump can replace him with someone who's not compromised and find a way to fire Mueller
 
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https://twitter.com/KenDilanianNBC/status/926164836303634432

NBC News: Sessions Rejected Russian Proposal by Campaign Adviser, Source Says
WASHINGTON — Attorney General Jeff Sessions rejected a proposal by a junior campaign aide who offered to use his "Russian contacts" to try to set up a meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, a source familiar with the matter told NBC News.
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This new revelation is significant because Sessions told Congress under oath in June that he had "no knowledge" of any conversations by anyone connected to the Trump campaign about "any type of interference with any campaign" by Russians.
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The meeting at which Papadopoulos floated the idea of Trump sitting down with Putin occurred March 31, and Sessions can be seen in a photo sitting at the head of the table. At the other end was Trump.

"The March 31 comments by this Papadopoulos person did not leave a lasting impression," said the person familiar with Sessions' views. "As far as Sessions seemed to be concerned, when he shut down this idea of Papadopoulos engaging with Russia, that was the end of it and he moved the meeting along to other issues."
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The source added, "Papadopoulos was some 29-year old that nobody had ever heard of and who struck people in the room as someone who didn't have a lot of credibility."

The source said Sessions was not aware that Papadopoulos had been offered "dirt" on Clinton or emails.
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At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Oct. 18, Sen. Lindsey Graham asked Sessions: "Did you ever overhear a conversation between you and anybody on the campaign who talked about meeting with the Russians?"

Sessions replied, "I have not seen anything that would indicate collusion with Russians to impact the campaign."
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