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The Bill Press Pod

Jeff Sessions' Russia Revelation (3.2.17)

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4.7601 Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2017

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Bill Press welcomes Joe Cirincione, Steven Shepard, & Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) to discuss Jeff Sessions' meetings with the Russian ambassador during the 2016 campaign, the latest on the revamped travel ban, Trump's approval rating following his first address to Congress, & the Democrats' plan for investigating the Trump administration's Russian connections - all the big highlights from this Thursday edition of the Bill Press Show! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

This is Bill Press and Friends on the District Productive Network.

0:11.4

One thing that Donald Trump did not mention about in his address to Congress, of course,

0:16.0

was anything to do with Russia.

0:19.0

He didn't say, we're not going to let Russia seize any more territory. We're

0:22.7

going to make Russia give back to Crimea. We're going to make Russia get out of Ukraine. None of that.

0:29.2

None of that. He didn't want to talk about Russia. They were hoping the White House that Russia

0:33.7

would just go away. Of course, we know it's not going to go away for a couple of reasons. Number one,

0:40.3

there's an ongoing FBI investigation, which the White House doesn't want to admit, but it's there. We know it's there.

0:48.5

James Comey has briefed the Senate Intelligence Committee about the FBI investigation. So they are looking into whether or not

0:56.9

Russia was trying to influence this election as the intelligence agencies have told us last summer

1:03.2

and whether Russia was trying to influence the outcome of the election. And more importantly,

1:14.3

whether the Trump campaign,

1:22.5

the Trump operation, was helping Russia out. Were there any contacts between the Trump campaign,

1:28.5

the Trump transition, and Russia during that time? The New York Times reports, yes, there were.

1:34.1

So all those unanswered questions, plus the FBI is not alone, the Senate Intelligence Committee has an ongoing investigation, bipartisan investigation led by Mark Warner, Democrat

1:43.6

from Virginia, and Richard Burr, Republican from North Carolina.

1:48.1

Yep.

1:48.8

And then the House Intelligence Committee's reported this morning with Adam Schiff, the ranking Democrat, and Devin Nunez, who's a big Trumper, the chairman.

1:58.4

But they just announced yesterday, actually, that they have now agreed on the scope

2:03.5

of their investigation, which is kind of bifurcated in the House. Adam Schiff wants to get to

2:10.5

the bottom of what the Trump people were telling the Russians. Devin Nunez says his focus is he

2:16.1

wants to focus on the leaks.

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