The following podcast contains explicit language.

["Fast-Troke, The Last One"]

It's Tuesday, June 13th, 2017 from Slated to the Gist, I'm Mike Pasca.

Jeff Sessions was testifying on Capitol Hill.

He was asked time and time again about what President Trump told him

about why he fired James Comey and hears what Jeff Sessions said.

You don't walk into any hearing or committee meeting

and reveal confidential communications with the President of the United States

who's entitled to receive confidential communications

in your best judgment about a host of issues.

In Alabama, we got a little saying,

if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck,

well by gum, it's Attorney General Jeff Sessions, ducking the question.

Not because of executive privilege per se,

but a concept of executive privilege that says the President may one day wish

to invoke executive privilege, so I'd better not spill the beans

on something he'd want to be quiet about.

That'd be unjentlmently.

The Democratic Senator Martin Heinrich of New Mexico

was so upset he could barely contain himself, well he could contain himself with buckets.

My understanding of the legal standard is that you either answer the question.

That's the best outcome.

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