Jeff Sessions Didn’t Tell Al Franken The Truth. Now Franken Has Some New Questions.

[hadit]

Launch the investigations!

Make wide and deep! Let's uncover ALL the foreign entanglements in Congress.

 

[Lakhota]

Sessions has a lot to answer for.

If Sessions Had Nothing To Hide, Why Did He Try To Hide it?

 

[Lakhota]

When will Sessions submit his new answers to Senator Franken?

 

[whitehall]

Half a dozen democrats forgot they talked to Russian diplomats. What's the big deal?

 

[Lakhota]

Should be an interesting week.

 

[Eloy]

I didn't trust Sessions before, especially when during the confirmation hearing he was taking credit for helping cases when all he did was sign some papers. Now we have this crap... how can you have an AG you can't trust to tell the truth?

Sessions is a nasty southern racist type. Of all the people Donald Trump could have picked as Attorney General he went out of his way to find such an oily pro-Iraq war, anti-gay creep. This choice tells us a lot about Trump.

 

[Yarddog]

Why didn’t the attorney general come clean before he was caught, and what did he talk about with the Russians?

WASHINGTON ― When Jeff Sessions told Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) under oath that he had not talked to any Russians during the Trump campaign, Franken hadn’t even asked him if he had.

Franken was just trying to find out what Sessions would do as attorney general if reports that emerged on Jan. 10 were true. The reports said there was frequent contact betweenDonald Trump’s campaign surrogates and Russian government intermediaries.

Sessions never said what he would do, but he did exonerate himself.

“I’m not aware of any of those activities,” Sessions told Franken, with just a hint of a proud smile. “I have been called a surrogate at a time or two in that campaign, and I did not have communications with the Russians, and I’m unable to comment on it.”

But that was not true. Sessions met with Ambassador Sergey Kislyak in his Senate office in September while the Obama administration was cranking up sanctions. He met Kislyak again in July, reportedly on the sidelines of the Republican National Convention.

Sessions said Thursday as he recused himself from any role in investigating the Russian attempts to influence the elections that he did not recall if he discussed politics with Kislyak, but that diplomats can be “gossipy.”

Now, Franken has some questions.

In a letter Franken sent to Sessions Thursday, Franken said he found if hard to believe the Russian efforts in the election did not come up in Sessions’ conversations.

“In July 2016, more than four months after endorsing then-candidate Trump, you delivered remarks during the Republican National Convention at an event hosted by the Heritage Foundation. Following your speech, you were approached by a small group of ambassadors, including Ambassador Kislyak,” Franken wrote. “The ambassador later pulled you aside and engaged you in private conversation. The notion that this conversation, which took place during your party’s nominating convention, would not have touched upon issues related to the campaign strains credulity.”

Franken wants Sessions to answer two demands by Friday:

1. In the seven weeks following your confirmation hearing, why did you fail to clarify that you had indeed communicated on more than one occasion with the Russian Ambassador during the 2016 presidential campaign until the Washington Post exposed those interactions?

2. Describe in detail any and all communications between yourself and Russian officials and their associates during the presidential campaign of 2016, including but not limited to in-person conversations, phone calls, meetings, and electronic communications. Also include any such communications between members of your staff, including your Senate staff and any staff that assisted you during the campaign, and Russian officials and their associates.​

And if the answers to those questions show Sessions knowingly misled Congress, he is not fit to serve as the nation’s top law enforcer, Franken said.

“If it is determined that you lied to the [Judiciary] Committee and the American people under oath during your confirmation hearing, it is incumbent upon you to resign from your position as attorney general,” Franken wrote.

Video: Jeff Sessions Didn’t Tell Al Franken The Truth. Now Franken Has Some New Questions.

I agree! Senator Al Franken is hitting on the hot spots. Context is very important.

Franken throwing mud on the wall to see what sticks. Yeah sure. Sessions spoke to the Russian Ambassador as planned previously Planned by the White house.

Obama Admin. Arranged Sessions' First Meeting with Russian Ambassador, Fmr. DOJ Atty. Reveals

Obviously Sessions thought Franken's question was in context to stories surrounding Election influence.

Of course democrats want Sessions out. They will be throwing mud on the wall for every Trump appointee, hoping to get a mis-speak so they can run with the news spin. This is really getting riddiculous. Democrats know Trump is planning to roll back most of what Obama accomplished in his 8 years in office, so they they are using the power of embedded loyalists in the Justice department, FBI and news media to bring Trump down.

 

[hadit]

Why didn’t the attorney general come clean before he was caught, and what did he talk about with the Russians?

WASHINGTON ― When Jeff Sessions told Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) under oath that he had not talked to any Russians during the Trump campaign, Franken hadn’t even asked him if he had.

Franken was just trying to find out what Sessions would do as attorney general if reports that emerged on Jan. 10 were true. The reports said there was frequent contact betweenDonald Trump’s campaign surrogates and Russian government intermediaries.

Sessions never said what he would do, but he did exonerate himself.

“I’m not aware of any of those activities,” Sessions told Franken, with just a hint of a proud smile. “I have been called a surrogate at a time or two in that campaign, and I did not have communications with the Russians, and I’m unable to comment on it.”

But that was not true. Sessions met with Ambassador Sergey Kislyak in his Senate office in September while the Obama administration was cranking up sanctions. He met Kislyak again in July, reportedly on the sidelines of the Republican National Convention.

Sessions said Thursday as he recused himself from any role in investigating the Russian attempts to influence the elections that he did not recall if he discussed politics with Kislyak, but that diplomats can be “gossipy.”

Now, Franken has some questions.

In a letter Franken sent to Sessions Thursday, Franken said he found if hard to believe the Russian efforts in the election did not come up in Sessions’ conversations.

“In July 2016, more than four months after endorsing then-candidate Trump, you delivered remarks during the Republican National Convention at an event hosted by the Heritage Foundation. Following your speech, you were approached by a small group of ambassadors, including Ambassador Kislyak,” Franken wrote. “The ambassador later pulled you aside and engaged you in private conversation. The notion that this conversation, which took place during your party’s nominating convention, would not have touched upon issues related to the campaign strains credulity.”

Franken wants Sessions to answer two demands by Friday:

1. In the seven weeks following your confirmation hearing, why did you fail to clarify that you had indeed communicated on more than one occasion with the Russian Ambassador during the 2016 presidential campaign until the Washington Post exposed those interactions?

2. Describe in detail any and all communications between yourself and Russian officials and their associates during the presidential campaign of 2016, including but not limited to in-person conversations, phone calls, meetings, and electronic communications. Also include any such communications between members of your staff, including your Senate staff and any staff that assisted you during the campaign, and Russian officials and their associates.​

And if the answers to those questions show Sessions knowingly misled Congress, he is not fit to serve as the nation’s top law enforcer, Franken said.

“If it is determined that you lied to the [Judiciary] Committee and the American people under oath during your confirmation hearing, it is incumbent upon you to resign from your position as attorney general,” Franken wrote.

Video: Jeff Sessions Didn’t Tell Al Franken The Truth. Now Franken Has Some New Questions.

I agree! Senator Al Franken is hitting on the hot spots. Context is very important.

Franken throwing mud on the wall to see what sticks. Yeah sure. Sessions spoke to the Russian Ambassador as planned previously Planned by the White house.

Obama Admin. Arranged Sessions' First Meeting with Russian Ambassador, Fmr. DOJ Atty. Reveals

Obviously Sessions thought Franken's question was in context to stories surrounding Election influence.

Of course democrats want Sessions out. They will be throwing mud on the wall for every Trump appointee, hoping to get a mis-speak so they can run with the news spin. This is really getting riddiculous. Democrats know Trump is planning to roll back most of what Obama accomplished in his 8 years in office, so they they are using the power of embedded loyalists in the Justice department, FBI and news media to bring Trump down.

The longer they can tie up Trump's appointees, the longer they can deny Trump the ability to actually govern.

 

[Eloy]

Why didn’t the attorney general come clean before he was caught, and what did he talk about with the Russians?

WASHINGTON ― When Jeff Sessions told Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) under oath that he had not talked to any Russians during the Trump campaign, Franken hadn’t even asked him if he had.

Franken was just trying to find out what Sessions would do as attorney general if reports that emerged on Jan. 10 were true. The reports said there was frequent contact betweenDonald Trump’s campaign surrogates and Russian government intermediaries.

Sessions never said what he would do, but he did exonerate himself.

“I’m not aware of any of those activities,” Sessions told Franken, with just a hint of a proud smile. “I have been called a surrogate at a time or two in that campaign, and I did not have communications with the Russians, and I’m unable to comment on it.”

But that was not true. Sessions met with Ambassador Sergey Kislyak in his Senate office in September while the Obama administration was cranking up sanctions. He met Kislyak again in July, reportedly on the sidelines of the Republican National Convention.

Sessions said Thursday as he recused himself from any role in investigating the Russian attempts to influence the elections that he did not recall if he discussed politics with Kislyak, but that diplomats can be “gossipy.”

Now, Franken has some questions.

In a letter Franken sent to Sessions Thursday, Franken said he found if hard to believe the Russian efforts in the election did not come up in Sessions’ conversations.

“In July 2016, more than four months after endorsing then-candidate Trump, you delivered remarks during the Republican National Convention at an event hosted by the Heritage Foundation. Following your speech, you were approached by a small group of ambassadors, including Ambassador Kislyak,” Franken wrote. “The ambassador later pulled you aside and engaged you in private conversation. The notion that this conversation, which took place during your party’s nominating convention, would not have touched upon issues related to the campaign strains credulity.”

Franken wants Sessions to answer two demands by Friday:

1. In the seven weeks following your confirmation hearing, why did you fail to clarify that you had indeed communicated on more than one occasion with the Russian Ambassador during the 2016 presidential campaign until the Washington Post exposed those interactions?

2. Describe in detail any and all communications between yourself and Russian officials and their associates during the presidential campaign of 2016, including but not limited to in-person conversations, phone calls, meetings, and electronic communications. Also include any such communications between members of your staff, including your Senate staff and any staff that assisted you during the campaign, and Russian officials and their associates.​

And if the answers to those questions show Sessions knowingly misled Congress, he is not fit to serve as the nation’s top law enforcer, Franken said.

“If it is determined that you lied to the [Judiciary] Committee and the American people under oath during your confirmation hearing, it is incumbent upon you to resign from your position as attorney general,” Franken wrote.

Video: Jeff Sessions Didn’t Tell Al Franken The Truth. Now Franken Has Some New Questions.

I agree! Senator Al Franken is hitting on the hot spots. Context is very important.

Franken throwing mud on the wall to see what sticks. Yeah sure. Sessions spoke to the Russian Ambassador as planned previously Planned by the White house.

Obama Admin. Arranged Sessions' First Meeting with Russian Ambassador, Fmr. DOJ Atty. Reveals

Obviously Sessions thought Franken's question was in context to stories surrounding Election influence.

Of course democrats want Sessions out. They will be throwing mud on the wall for every Trump appointee, hoping to get a mis-speak so they can run with the news spin. This is really getting riddiculous. Democrats know Trump is planning to roll back most of what Obama accomplished in his 8 years in office, so they they are using the power of embedded loyalists in the Justice department, FBI and news media to bring Trump down.

The longer they can tie up Trump's appointees, the longer they can deny Trump the ability to actually govern.

Democrats will do their best to stymie Trump's madness.

 

[hadit]

Why didn’t the attorney general come clean before he was caught, and what did he talk about with the Russians?

WASHINGTON ― When Jeff Sessions told Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) under oath that he had not talked to any Russians during the Trump campaign, Franken hadn’t even asked him if he had.

Franken was just trying to find out what Sessions would do as attorney general if reports that emerged on Jan. 10 were true. The reports said there was frequent contact betweenDonald Trump’s campaign surrogates and Russian government intermediaries.

Sessions never said what he would do, but he did exonerate himself.

“I’m not aware of any of those activities,” Sessions told Franken, with just a hint of a proud smile. “I have been called a surrogate at a time or two in that campaign, and I did not have communications with the Russians, and I’m unable to comment on it.”

But that was not true. Sessions met with Ambassador Sergey Kislyak in his Senate office in September while the Obama administration was cranking up sanctions. He met Kislyak again in July, reportedly on the sidelines of the Republican National Convention.

Sessions said Thursday as he recused himself from any role in investigating the Russian attempts to influence the elections that he did not recall if he discussed politics with Kislyak, but that diplomats can be “gossipy.”

Now, Franken has some questions.

In a letter Franken sent to Sessions Thursday, Franken said he found if hard to believe the Russian efforts in the election did not come up in Sessions’ conversations.

“In July 2016, more than four months after endorsing then-candidate Trump, you delivered remarks during the Republican National Convention at an event hosted by the Heritage Foundation. Following your speech, you were approached by a small group of ambassadors, including Ambassador Kislyak,” Franken wrote. “The ambassador later pulled you aside and engaged you in private conversation. The notion that this conversation, which took place during your party’s nominating convention, would not have touched upon issues related to the campaign strains credulity.”

Franken wants Sessions to answer two demands by Friday:

1. In the seven weeks following your confirmation hearing, why did you fail to clarify that you had indeed communicated on more than one occasion with the Russian Ambassador during the 2016 presidential campaign until the Washington Post exposed those interactions?

2. Describe in detail any and all communications between yourself and Russian officials and their associates during the presidential campaign of 2016, including but not limited to in-person conversations, phone calls, meetings, and electronic communications. Also include any such communications between members of your staff, including your Senate staff and any staff that assisted you during the campaign, and Russian officials and their associates.​

And if the answers to those questions show Sessions knowingly misled Congress, he is not fit to serve as the nation’s top law enforcer, Franken said.

“If it is determined that you lied to the [Judiciary] Committee and the American people under oath during your confirmation hearing, it is incumbent upon you to resign from your position as attorney general,” Franken wrote.

Video: Jeff Sessions Didn’t Tell Al Franken The Truth. Now Franken Has Some New Questions.

I agree! Senator Al Franken is hitting on the hot spots. Context is very important.

Franken throwing mud on the wall to see what sticks. Yeah sure. Sessions spoke to the Russian Ambassador as planned previously Planned by the White house.

Obama Admin. Arranged Sessions' First Meeting with Russian Ambassador, Fmr. DOJ Atty. Reveals

Obviously Sessions thought Franken's question was in context to stories surrounding Election influence.

Of course democrats want Sessions out. They will be throwing mud on the wall for every Trump appointee, hoping to get a mis-speak so they can run with the news spin. This is really getting riddiculous. Democrats know Trump is planning to roll back most of what Obama accomplished in his 8 years in office, so they they are using the power of embedded loyalists in the Justice department, FBI and news media to bring Trump down.

The longer they can tie up Trump's appointees, the longer they can deny Trump the ability to actually govern.

Democrats will do their best to stymie Trump's madness.

Party > country.

 

[Lakhota]

Shame on Sessions! He needs to be brought before the Senate again!

Al Franken Calls Jeff Sessions’ Russia Answer ‘Insulting’

 

[hadit]

Sessions told the truth.

 

[Eloy]

Sessions told the truth.

Sessions admitted he did not tell the truth and has written an amendment to his testimony before the senate committee.

 

[hadit]

Sessions told the truth.

Sessions admitted he did not tell the truth and has written an amendment to his testimony before the senate committee.

Right, he clarified his answer. Context matters.

 

[Eloy]

Sessions told the truth.

Sessions admitted he did not tell the truth and has written an amendment to his testimony before the senate committee.

Right, he clarified his answer. Context matters.

A man Sessions' age and with such long experience should know better.

 

[Fang]

Al Franken? LMAO!!! Is there an adult in the room that can ask questions?

 

[Eloy]

Al Franken? LMAO!!! Is there an adult in the room that can ask questions?

Al Franken can mock a person simply by asking an innocent question.

 

[martybegan]

Shame on Sessions! He needs to be brought before the Senate again!

Al Franken Calls Jeff Sessions’ Russia Answer ‘Insulting’

Al Franken can kiss my shiny metal ass.

 

[martybegan]

Sessions told the truth.

Sessions admitted he did not tell the truth and has written an amendment to his testimony before the senate committee.

Right, he clarified his answer. Context matters.

A man Sessions' age and with such long experience should know better.

Anyone should know that Perjury requires willful attempts to mislead, and the burden is on the person asking the question to show that a response was a willful falsehood directly to the specific question asked. Any vagueness is the fault of the person asking the question, not the person answering it, and is a iron-clad defense against any perjury charge.

 

[hadit]

Sessions told the truth.

Sessions admitted he did not tell the truth and has written an amendment to his testimony before the senate committee.

Right, he clarified his answer. Context matters.

A man Sessions' age and with such long experience should know better.

He should have known the democrats were trying to set him up, yes. That doesn't prove nefarious intent, however.