View full testimony of Attorney General Jeff Sessions on C-Span.
By Miriam Raftery
June 15, 2017 (Washington D.C.) – Attorney General Jeff Sessions testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee June 13th , calling any suggestion of Trump campaign team’s collusion with Russia to rig the U.S. presidential election “a contemptible lie.”
Sessions also denied any “inappropriate” meetings with Russians but repeatedly claimed fuzzy memory. He said he could not recall meeting Russia’s ambassador during a reception at the Mayflower hotel. After his testimony, the Week published a photo of Sessions speaking with the Russian ambassador at the Mayflower.
He refused to answer any questions about conversations with President Donald Trump about the investigation or possible discussion of pardons, citing a department policy. But Sessions was unable to name that policy, whether it exists in writing, or whether he reviewed it before testifying when grilled by California Senator Kamala Harris. (View Senator Harris questioning Sessions.)
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