Posted on 03/02/2017 7:53:55 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Attorney General Jeff Sessions denied meeting with Russian officials during the course of the presidential election to discuss the Trump campaign, he told NBC News in exclusive remarks early Thursday.
"I have not met with any Russians at any time to discuss any political campaign," he said, "and those remarks are unbelievable to me and are false. And I don't have anything else to say about that."
Sessions was also asked whether he would step aside from investigating alleged ties between Trump's surrogates and intermediaries for the Russian government — as a growing chorus of Democrats and some Republicans have demanded.
"I have said whenever it's appropriate, I will recuse myself," he said. "There's no doubt about that."
Sessions' spokeswoman confirmed Wednesday night that he had met with the Russian ambassador to the U.S. before the presidential election last year in his capacity as a then-senator — raising questions about whether he misled fellow senators during his attorney general confirmation hearing in January.
Spokeswoman Sarah Isgur Flores told NBC News that Sessions, who was a prominent Trump surrogate, did have a conversation with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak last year. The meeting was first reported by The Washington Post on Wednesday.
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WHY!!!!
What the Hell, why don’t you just resign while you’re at it!
This is how the Dems get us every f-ing time!
The dems are desperate to get rid of Sessions because he’s going to find their corruption and treason. The are scared shitless.
Don’t panic yet. He said “if necessary.”
Yeah, hand it to a pro-Trump deputy and go hands-off.
No biggie either way.
Doesn't match the headline.
I doubt he will let the Democrats decide what's "appropriate".
Which is it Wapo, a conversation or a meeting?
Trump needs to get out in front and clearly state that he has Sessions’ back.
This is a fight, he cannot afford to lose.
Mostly fake news. Hit them hard, Sessions.
Sessions should order any and all LEO’s to start handing out tickets for everything from parking to jaywalking to democrat Congress critters...
What did the rats Holder and Lynch ever recuse themselves from? NOTHING.
Sessions is a good-hearted old-timer but naive as to how the game is played these days.
The left is trying to Alinsky him, by forcing Sessions to play by his own rules, rules that don’t apply to them.
Don’t panic yet. He said “if necessary.”
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This is pure B.S.!
This began with Flynn. On one hand Trump says he did nothing wrong, then accepts (asked for) his resignation! This is how the Dems get us every f-ing time! He has NO need to recuse himself! If he does, he simply validates the Dems criticisms!
We never, ever learn!
If I don’t see Obama, Hillary, Holder, and Jarrett led away in cuffs and in Fed prison by the end of DJT’s first term, then I will deem Sessions USELESS as an AG.
He’s a better man than me.
I’d say at a conference,
“Members of the press, you and the democrats can all go #### your mothers. They’re whores like you anyway. I’m not resigning or backing off from ONE ### DAM CASE!
You can all go straight to ####ing Hell. Good Day.”
But that’s why NYers are considered rude :(
Dear Mr. Sessions,
Please tell the democrats and those two traitors McLame and Leslie to take their ‘Russian investigation’ and shove it where the sun doesn’t shine.
Thank you,
MB
If he does recuse himself, it will be considered an admission of wrongdoing on his part by the Democrats, and will portrayed that way 24/7 by the Democrats and their flunkies in the media. Hopefully Republicans have finally learned that you can’t play nice with the looney left.
STOP GIVING AN INCH TO THESE PEOPLE!
Stop answering the damn hypotheticals!!! That is what gets the headline. Are we really... really that freakin’ stupid? When you get asked that type of ‘will you’ question you merely say, “That is not even at issue here.”
Trump needs to get out in front and clearly state that he has Sessions’ back.
This is a fight, he cannot afford to lose.
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So help me, if allows (or asks) for Sessions to recuse himself, we will have taken several steps back!
Schumer is out asking for Sessions resignation for crying out loud!
I’ll tell you what “gets us every time”, is when someone is asked a direct question, and lies. That’s what Democrats do as a matter of course and they get away with it. When Republicans try it, they generally resign, as General Kelly had to do.
You do not lie to your boss, period. That’s a firing offense anywhere in the private sector and those are the rules Trump will apply.
I trust AG Sessions and take him at his word, “if necessary” he will recuse on any topic or issue, including this one. That’s all. You’re over-reaching.
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