Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Tuesday defended himself amid allegations that he had a third undisclosed meeting with a Russian official during the 2016 campaign, his role in the firing of James Comey as FBI director and the reason for his recusal from the Russian investigation . Sessions testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee for several hours in which he seemed to waver on whether he met Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C. following a Trump foreign policy speech. Initially, Sessions said he did not have “private meetings” or recall any “conversations” with any Russian officials at the hotel. He later admitted that he may have had an encounter with Kislyak. The attorney general said he recused himself from the Russia probe because of a Department of Justice regulation, which he said states, “that Department employees should not participate in investigations of a campaign if they have served as a campaign advisor.” He also said that his decision to write a letter accompanying Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein’s memo recommending Comey’s dismissal did not violate his recusal. Sessions also said he discussed the idea of Comey’s firing before he was confirmed as attorney general… Read full this story
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