Schumer has called on Sessions to resign for failing to tell Congress about two meetings with Russia’s ambassador to the USA during his confirmation hearings.
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At the center of the Sessions case is whether the then-Alabama senator discussed the election with Kislyak when they met in September.
The Times editorial page proclaimed the story “a bombshell”, but Texas Sen.
“There is so much panic in the United States political establishment over Russian Federation right now that Trump will be boxed in on what he can do”, said Matthew Rojansky, a Russian Federation expert at the Wilson Center think tank in Washington. Franken’s question included these words: “claimed to have”, “allegedly”, “alleging”, “if it’s true”. Moreover, Franken’s inquiry was posed in the context of ongoing, core election communications with Russians.
“In retrospect, I should have slowed down and said I did meet with one official a couple of times and that was the Russian ambassador”, Sessions said Thursday.
Several members of the Trump team have ties to Russian Federation that have drawn criticism from Democrats and some Republicans over their coziness with a foreign power considered a global threat.
Schumer, meanwhile, called for Sessions’ immediate resignation.
The President has called the allegations of Russian involvement “a total witch hunt”.
The emotional atmosphere in the United States related to the investigation into alleged contacts between the U.S. presidential administration members and Russian diplomats undermines the idea of bilateral dialogue between the two states, the Kremlin spokesman said.
With his administration on the defensive over investigations into alleged Russian meddling in last year’s election, US President Donald Trump is no longer tweeting praise for his Kremlin counterpart.
After a lengthy delay when Democrats spent weeks of exercising every procedural maneuver in the books to slow his confirmation, the Senate finally approved Sessions on February 9.
While people in American government having clandestine relationships with Russians is serious business, on a less serious, and more amusing side, a company is selling candles on Etsy that smell like world leaders, says the Inquisitr.
“Because the Department of Justice should be above reproach, for the good of the country, Attorney General Sessions should resign”, Schumer said at a press conference. The White House lied about that until they couldn’t anymore.
Donald Trump delivers his first address to a joint session of Congress from the floor of the House of Representatives in Washington, DC, USA, 28 February 2017.
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Since President Donald Trump’s election in November, she has dismissed the possibility of a dramatic rapprochement with Russian Federation given the inherent differences between Washington and Moscow. “Each time those initial protests are overcome and a special investigation takes place, it has been shown that there is fire behind the smoke”.
