Pressure mounts on AG Jeff Sessions over Russian meetings
To the Point
KCRW
4.4 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 2 March 2017
⏱️ 52 minutes
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The latest revelations about a high-ranking member of the Trump Administration.
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| 0:00.0 | From KCRW in Santa Monica and PRI, Public Radio International, this is To the Point. |
| 0:07.9 | Can America's top law enforcement officer investigate himself? |
| 0:15.6 | Hello again, I'm Orman Alney, and this is To the Point. |
| 0:18.9 | Attorney General Jeff Sessions is accused of misleading fellow senators during his confirmation hearings and possibly lying in response to written questions. It's all about whether he met with Russia's ambassador as a surrogate for candidate Donald Trump and an advisor to the presidential campaign. |
| 0:34.9 | Democrats, even some Republicans, want him to recuse himself from overseeing |
| 0:38.8 | an FBI investigation, if one is going on. Others want him to resign. Did the Obama administration |
| 0:45.8 | lead behind a political time bomb? On our talking point later, federal efforts to clean up local |
| 0:51.8 | police abuse may be a thing of the past. First, here's the news. |
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| 1:24.6 | Support for To the Point comes from the members of KCRW and from the Public Radio International Program Fund. |
| 1:31.6 | Hello again, Warren Allie, back with To The Point. Big changes are underway at the Justice Department under the Trump administration. |
| 1:37.8 | Later on our talking point, we'll hear about shutting down efforts to reform Chicago Police Department and others accused of abusing the use of force. |
| 1:46.4 | First, this news update, Attorney General Jeff Sessions is accused of misleading fellow senators |
| 1:51.3 | during his confirmation hearings. The focus is on his answer to a question from Minnesota Democrat |
| 1:57.1 | Al Franken. If there is any evidence that anyone affiliated with the Trump campaign communicated with the |
| 2:04.9 | Russian government in the course of this campaign, what will you do? |
| 2:09.8 | Senator Franken, I'm not aware of any of those activities. |
| 2:14.7 | I have been called a surrogate at a time or two in that campaign, and I didn't |
| 2:19.3 | have not have communications with the Russians. |
| 2:22.0 | It turns out that General Sessions did meet with Russian ambassador Sergei Kislyak. |
| 2:27.9 | California Congressman Adam Schiff is the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee. |
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