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The immediate go-to excuse for why Attorney General Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III was getting chummy with Russian ambassador and frequent texting-pal of Michael Flynn, Sergey Kislyak, is that Sessions was just doing his job.
This is the latest attack against the Trump administration by partisan Democrats. General Sessions met the ambassador in an official capacity as a member of the Senate Armed Service Committee, which is entirely consistent with his testimony.
Yeah … about that.
Breaking: NBC can't find even one other Senate Armed Services Committee member who spoke w/ Russian Ambassador even once; 20 of 20 say no.
Out of all the members of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Sessions is the only one who met with the Russian ambassador “in an official capacity.” So … why? What could Sessions have to say to Russia as a member of the committee that he didn’t feel compelled to share with any other member of the committee? What made him so special?
Sessions wasn’t just a senator, he and Bannon were principal architects of the Trump campaign, and his encounter with the Russian ambassador wasn’t business as usual.
One of the meetings was a private conversation between Sessions and Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak that took place in September in the senator’s office, at the height of what U.S. intelligence officials say was a Russian cyber campaign to upend the U.S. presidential race.
Sessions is now reduced to making weasel-worded statements about the nature of his definitely not typical conversation.
One of the members of Session’s committee would be Claire McCaskill.
It’s clear Attorney General Sessions misled the Senate—the questions is, why? I've been on the Armed Services Committee for ten years, and in that time, have had no calls from or meetings with Russian ambassador. Ever. That’s because ambassadors call members of Foreign Relations Committee. Attorney General Sessions should resign
As Sessions struggles to explain away his obviously inaccurate testimony before the Senate, and his transparently false cover story, a quick reminder …