Sessions Going To Have A News Conference Momentarily

[Kathianne]

Pete isn't quite right about where Sessions met with the Russian.

http://www.debatepolicy.com/showthread.php?58439-Sessions-Met-With-Russian-Ambassador&p=858514#post858514

[Kathianne]

Fairly short. He met with ambassador in capacity of foreign affairs committee. He wasn't part of the Trump campaign at that point. He is going to recuse himself from Russian investigation.

He answered Franken's question as given, he had not met with any as a Trump operative, not affiliated with the campaign at the time.

We'll see where it goes now.

[Kathianne]

Here's a link with more:

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/03/02/sessions-announces-recusal-from-russia-related-probes-denies-misleading-congress.html


Sessions announces recusal from Russia-related probes, denies misleading Congress

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Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced Thursday he will recuse himself from “any existing or future investigations” regarding the 2016 presidential campaign, responding to bipartisan pressure to step aside from a probe into Moscow meddling amid revelations he spoke twice with Russia’s ambassador and didn’t disclose it to Congress.

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“I never had meetings with Russian operatives or Russian intermediaries about the Trump campaign,” he said.

Sessions said he did not intend to mislead anyone, suggesting he was referring in that hearing only to discussions about the campaign. Still, Sessions said he would write to the Senate Judiciary Committee to “explain this testimony for the record.”

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The Washington Post (https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/sessions-spoke-twice-with-russian-ambassador-during-trumps-presidential-campaign-justice-officials-say/2017/03/01/77205eda-feac-11e6-99b4-9e613afeb09f_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_no-name%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.090144fbd7f0) first reported that Sessions spoke twice last year with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. One discussion, in July, was described as involving a group of ambassadors after a Heritage Foundation event on the sidelines of the Republican National Convention. Kislyak was part of a “small group” of diplomats who approached Sessions and spoke with him.

A subsequent meeting was held in September in the senator’s office. Justice officials said Sessions met with ambassadors in his capacity as a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee.

Sessions, at his press conference, offered a few details about the September meeting. He said they “talked a little bit about terrorism” as well as Ukraine, at which point it got a bit “testy.”

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[Balu]

Pete isn't quite right about where Sessions met with the Russian.

http://www.debatepolicy.com/showthread.php?58439-Sessions-Met-With-Russian-Ambassador&p=858514#post858514

I would say one think for sure - The diplomats of ANY country at the rank of an Ambassador never touch the things they try to accuse Mr. Sessions. There are other persons to fulfill 'delicate tasks' and it is not obligatory they have diplomatic ranks and your counterintelligence service knows it. http://s19.rimg.info/4e98d5e17b906b6479a6d2aa7f43c084.gif (http://smayliki.ru/smilie-1142852103.html)

[pete311]

Kushner now maybe implicated
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/02/us/politics/kushner-flynn-sessions-russia.html

[Gunny]

I would say one think for sure - The diplomats of ANY country at the rank of an Ambassador never touch the things they try to accuse Mr. Sessions. There are other persons to fulfill 'delicate tasks' and it is not obligatory they have diplomatic ranks and your counterintelligence service knows it. http://s19.rimg.info/4e98d5e17b906b6479a6d2aa7f43c084.gif (http://smayliki.ru/smilie-1142852103.html)

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