Special Edition: Sessions Versus the Committee with No Bull

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🗓️ 14 June 2017

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

Attorney General Jeff Sessions faced questioning from the Senate Intelligence Committee today. He answered questions on his recusal, on his role in James Comey's firing, on his disputed conversation with the former FBI Director, and on his meetings with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. He also declined to answer a lot of questions about his conversations with President Trump—without an assertion of executive privilege.

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We left in every question that produced new information, and that's all we left in. It's everything you actually need from today's hearing in 90 minutes.

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1:25.6	He answered questions about why he recused from the Russia investigation.
1:34.1	He answered questions about Komi's suggestion that he had shrugged meekly when confronted
1:40.9	with having abandoned his FBI director to the clutches of President Trump.
1:46.8	We've cut out all the extraneous nonsense, all the repeated questions, all the stuff
1:53.2	you don't need and we're bringing you just the questions and just the answers the first
1:59.5	time they're asked and answered.
2:02.2	It's the LawFair podcast, middle of the week edition, attorney general sessions versus
2:09.1	the intelligence committee with no bull.
2:12.4	Thank you very much, thank you very much, John Chamon Burr and ranking member Warner for
2:16.8	allowing me to publicly appear before your committee today.
2:21.1	I appreciate the committee's critically important efforts to investigate Russian interference
2:26.8	with our democratic processes.
2:29.6	Such interference can never be tolerated and I encourage every effort to get to the bottom
2:36.2	of any such allegations.
2:38.8	As you know, the deputy attorney general has appointed a special counsel to investigate
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