Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2017

The Daily

The New York Times

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🗓️ 15 November 2017

⏱️ 22 minutes

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In a marathon session before Congress, Attorney General Jeff Sessions denied lying about Russian contacts in earlier testimony and sidestepped questions about feeling pressure from President Trump to investigate Hillary Clinton and Uranium One. Guests: Matt Apuzzo, who covers the Justice Department for The New York Times; Michael S. Schmidt, who covers national security. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily. [AUDIO PLAYER DESCRIPTION] Attorney General Jeff Sessions denied lying to Congress about Russian contacts and sidestepped questions about feeling pressure to investigate Hillary Clinton.

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0:26.0	From the New York Times, I'm Michael Marbaro.
0:33.0	This is Bidin.
0:36.0	Today, in a marathon session before Congress, Jeff Sessions denies lying about ties to Russia
0:47.6	and sidesteps questions about pressure from President Trump to investigate Hillary Clinton
0:54.1	and Uranium One.
0:56.3	And what is Uranium One?
1:02.5	It's Wednesday, November 15th.
1:09.1	Good morning.
1:10.1	Today, we welcome Attorney General Jeff Sessions for the Judiciary Committee's annual Department
1:14.5	of Justice oversight hearing.
1:16.6	Matapuzo, quite a week for Jeff Sessions to go before Congress.
1:21.4	What was he doing there?
1:22.4	This is the regular oversight hearing that the House Judiciary Committee conducts with
1:29.1	the Attorney General.
1:30.1	And it's a chance for lawmakers to say, how is the Department running and ask questions
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