Under oath, Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Sen. Al Franken had this remarkable exchange:
At his Jan. 10 Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing, Sessions was asked by Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) what he would do if he learned of any evidence that anyone affiliated with the Trump campaign communicated with the Russian government in the course of the 2016 campaign.
“I’m not aware of any of those activities,” he responded. He added: “I have been called a surrogate at a time or two in that campaign and I did not have communications with the Russians.”
You can watch a video of the exchange below.
Sen. Franken didn’t even ask if Sessions himself had contact with the Russians, but Sessions appeared to stumble and offer up that information. All under oath. He also lied to Sen. Patrick Leahy:
In January, Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.) asked Sessions for answers to written questions. “Several of the President-elect’s nominees or senior advisers have Russian ties. Have you been in contact with anyone connected to any part of the Russian government about the 2016 election, either before or after election day?” Leahy wrote.
Sessions responded with one word: “No.”
Ladies and gentlemen, this ends in resignation. There is no other reasonable outcome. Sessions will be lucky if it doesn’t result in jail time too. And it is time to once again start asking: what did Donald Trump know and when did he know it? It’s so curious that all these people around him have had so many contacts with Russian officials.
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