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...declared executive privilege. He said he was protecting the President (the Executive Branch) from future events where the "executive privilege" might be needed?
He artfully (or inartfully) dodged most questions where Trump might be involved, depending on your perspective.
Most of the Committee were not prepared with the proper questions for AG Sessions, in my opinion.
He covered quite well for Trump, I thought.
However, there was little progress made in the hearing, imo. We still don't have any idea what was discussed with the Russians, although Sessions admitted that he had discussed sanctions in one conversation. He knew nothing about Jared Kushner or Trump's connections to Russia?
All in all, he was legally prepared to protect himself and Trump but very little new ground was broken. We still have most of the questions we had before.
leftstreet
(36,116 posts)This is all starting to look and sound like political theater to me
tblue37
(65,490 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Turbineguy
(37,372 posts)evil day of reckoning.
kentuck
(111,110 posts)..if they expect to make much progress?
The Senate has oversight and they must use the powers that are granted them.
C_U_L8R
(45,021 posts)And Republicans are too chickenshit and complicit to do a thing about it.
spanone
(135,886 posts)cnn reported the republicans held eric holder in contempt for not answering questions
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,869 posts)Sessions, and previously Coats and Rogers, have all refused to testify about their conversations with Trump even though Trump has not asserted executive privilege or claimed that the conversations involved classified or otherwise protected material. They used the justification that revealing the content of those conversations would be "inappropriate," but there is no legal privilege or exception for "inappropriateness." So what's going on? Did Trump threaten them to keep them from talking? If so, with what?
Whatever Trump is covering up must be so bad that he's willing to risk all manner of political and legal blowback to prevent its disclosure. I think Sessions probably would testify under subpoena if it came to that, but only then (a subpoena would get him off the hook with Trump). Sessions might be lying about his contacts with the Russians but that's secondary to the big issue, which is what Trump is covering up about his connections with Russia.
What really struck me is the fact that so far nobody has said that Trump has asked about the status of the Russia hacking investigation. That's the dog that didn't bark. Trump isn't asking because he already knows.
BigmanPigman
(51,635 posts)Meanwhile we lose the ACA!
furtheradu
(1,865 posts)On every media outlet. Getti photos. I don't tweet, I am tech impaired, but it is evidence of sessions lying AGAIN. Perjury.