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Attorney General Sessions Will Testify in Open Senate Committee Hearing

6/12/2017

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Attorney General Jefferson Beauregard Sessions will testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee in open session Tuesday, June 13. He will likely be asked questions about the firing of FBI Director James Comey – was he involved in the decision to fire him, and was he aware of the circumstances of meetings Comey had with the president, which he described in testimony before the committee in open and closed sessions last week.
 
The link to the Senate hearing, scheduled for 2:30 pm Eastern time (11:30 am Pacific time) can be found here.
https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/hearings/open-hearing-open-testimony-attorney-general-united-states-jeff-sessions
 
AG Sessions announced March 2 that he would recuse himself from any matters relating to the presidential campaign or to the investigation into the Russian government’s interference in the election. Sessions was the first U.S. Senator (and for a long time, the only one) to endorse Donald Trump for president.
 
The recusal came about when it was discovered that Sessions had lied under oath during testimony during his confirmation hearing. In addition, he also failed to disclose meetings with Russian officials on his SF 86 form, necessary to obtain a security clearance.
 
Lying on an SF 86 form is a felony.
 
This is what Sessions said on January 10 in response to Senator Franken’s question asking what Sessions will do as Attorney General if it turns out that any members of the Trump campaign communicated with Russians during the campaign. (We now know that Flynn, Kushner, Manafort, Page, Gordon, and Page all communicated with representatives of the Russian government during or after the election.)
http://launch.newsinc.com/share.html?trackingGroup=92502&siteSection=site_section_id&videoId=32064990
 
A Politifact article about Sessions’s testimony can be found here.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2017/mar/02/context-what-jeff-sessions-told-al-franken-about-m/
 
An article about Sessions's announcement of recusal, from the Washington Post, can be found here.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/top-gop-lawmaker-calls-on-sessions-to-recuse-himself-from-russia-investigation/2017/03/02/148c07ac-ff46-11e6-8ebe-6e0dbe4f2bca_story.html?utm_term=.0007ecfeabfd

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Transcripts of the testimony from the Attorney General confirmation hearing can be found here.

https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/meetings/01/10/2017/attorney-general-nomination


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