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President George W. Bush's top ethics lawyer told Business Insider on Thursday that while it was "debatable" whether Attorney General Jeff Sessions perjured himself during his Senate confirmation hearing, he must resign. Richard Painter, a professor at the University of Minnesota Law School who was the chief White House ethics lawyer from 2005 to 2007, added the latest Russia-related White House firestorm could leave Sessions open to the risk of "blackmailing."
Attorney general Jeff Sessions was accused of misleading the Senate when he said he didn't meet with any Russian officials during the 2016 campaign. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has come under fire for what critics say was misleading the Senate about his contacts with the Russian ambassador to the US while he was a prominent surrogate for President Donald Trump's campaign.
Ohio's congressional delegation split - largely along party lines - on whether Attorney General Jeff Sessions did enough by recusing himself from any investigation into Russian interference in the U.S. elections last fall. WKSU's M.L. Schultze has more on the reaction to confirmation that Sessions met with the Russian ambassador twice, then told Congress he had not.
Sick of all the propaganda about Russia? Me too. Larry Johnson reports: People insisting that Sessions "lied" under oath have not taken time to actually read the exchange that took place with Senator Al Franken.
Donald Trump has thrown his support behind his beleaguered Attorney General - saying he has total confidence in Jeff Sessions even as the lawyer rescued himself from an ongoing investigation into Russia's alleged interference in the U.S. election. Franken had asked Sessions during his Senate confirmation hearings whether he knew of any contacts between the Trump campaign and Russian Federation - and the Alabama Republican had volunteered that he had not.
U.S. Rep. Pramila Jayapal and other House Judiciary Committee Democrats want a perjury investigation of U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions. "Jeff Sessions lied under oath.
In this Feb. 9 photo, Attorney General Jeff Sessions holds a meeting with the heads of federal law enforcement components at the Department of Justice in Washington.
Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill was one of many Democrats taking umbrage Thursday at the revelation that Attorney General Jeff Sessions had twice met with the Russian ambassador to the U.S. during last year's presidential campaign, during a furor over that country's alleged interference in the election, and misled his colleagues about it during his confirmation hearing. But she went too far when she said she'd had no similar contacts in the decade that she'd been, like Sessions, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee .
Attorney General Jeff Sessions twice spoke with the Russian envoy to the U.S. during the 2016 presidential campaign, a fact that seemingly contradicts sworn statements he made to Congress during his confirmation hearings. The revelation prompted calls for Sessions to resign or recuse himself from a probe into Trump campaign contacts with Russia.
A New York Republican is adding his name to the growing list of lawmakers who want to see local law enforcement reimbursed for the costs associated with protecting President Donald Trump when he isn't at the White House.
Little Lucy Szela is a big fan of Abraham Lincoln. How big? When she was 3, she donned a fake black beard and stovepipe hat to appear as our 16th president for Halloween.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions will recuse himself from any investigations of ties between Trump campaign officials and Russia, he announced in a hastily organized press conference on Thursday. "I never had meetings with Russian operatives or Russian intermediaries as part of the Trump campaign," he said, seeking to stop the bleeding after a brutal day.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif. speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March 2, 2017, about news reports of Attorney General Jeff Sessions' contact with Russia's ambassador to the U.S. during the presidential campaign.
The top House Democrat says Attorney General Jeff Sessions lied under oath when he told the Senate Judiciary that he had no contacts with the Russian government and says he should resign. In the meantime, Republican Sens. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Marco Rubio of Florida joined a growing chorus of Republicans calling upon Sessions to recuse himself from any investigation on contacts between the Russians and President Donald Trump's campaign last year.
A Vermont congressman is calling for Attorney General Jeff Sessions to resign in the wake of revelations that he twice met with the Russian ambassador during the presidential campaign. In a statement posted on his Facebook page, Democratic Rep. Peter Welch accused Sessions of misleading Congress during his Senate confirmation hearing.
Senate Majority Leader Paul Gazelka says the governor is working behind the scenes with Democrats to prevent passage of a Real ID bill unless it includes an opening for unauthorized immigrants to obtain drivers' licenses. Senate Majority Leader Paul Gazelka says the governor is working behind the scenes with Democrats to prevent passage of a Real ID bill unless it includes an opening for unauthorized immigrants to obtain drivers' licenses.
One of the reasons I thought the Democratic Party was about to turn the page on the acrimony of the presidential primaries was because the two leading candidates to run the Democratic National Committee were speaking the same language. Not only that, the campaign waged by former labor secretary Tom Perez and Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., was devoid of vitriol and personal attacks.
"Tell Me Something I Don't Know" host Stephen J. Dubner and his expert panelists love to be wowed by unexpected bits of trivia. There's a great way to get to know someone new, Stephen J. Dubner says, after the standard "So what do you do?" question.
In this Feb. 9, 2017, file photo, Attorney General Jeff Sessions holds a meeting with the heads of federal law enforcement components at the Department of Justice in Washington. Sessions had two conversations with the Russian ambassador to the United States during the presidential campaign season last year, contact that immediately fueled calls for him to recuse himself from a Justice Department investigation into Russian interference in the election.