Sessions met with Russian envoy twice last year, encounters he later did not disclose - Polidicks

Nothing will happen. Once Trump has the SCOTUS tied up, he's free to keep people like sessions in place

[QUOTE=KillRay;51899400]Paul Manafort, Micheal Flynn, Carter Page, Jeff Sessions. All connected to Trump. All connected to Russia. 3/4 fired. Investigation needed[/QUOTE] Rex Tillerson and Wilbur Ross also [editline]2nd March 2017[/editline] [media]https://twitter.com/thehill/status/837306276266782720[/media]

Sessions wasn't just talking to the ambassador in his capacity as a senator [media]https://twitter.com/clairecmc/status/837272862432104448[/media]

I don't get it. The White House says he met with Russian officials while Sessions said that he didn't in front of Congress. How can the White House come out the next day and say it never happened and he shouldn't have to recuse himself? This is like when Kellyanne Conway told us that Flynn had been talking to Russia prior to the election then the day after the White House is telling us that it never happened and a few days later he resigned. I'm not sure if White House officials are lying to us with malice or if there is some critical breakdown in communication but I really hope it's just the latter.

Lock him up.

[QUOTE=Cone;51899682]Sessions wasn't just talking to the ambassador in his capacity as a senator [media]https://twitter.com/clairecmc/status/837272862432104448[/media][/QUOTE] [media]https://twitter.com/clairecmc/status/296640293229457409[/media] [media]https://twitter.com/clairecmc/status/629258099942105088[/media]

[QUOTE=Omesh;51901283][media]https://twitter.com/clairecmc/status/296640293229457409[/media] [media]https://twitter.com/clairecmc/status/629258099942105088[/media][/QUOTE] Sessions is still a felon for lying in a congressional hearing, under oath.

[QUOTE=Omesh;51901283]McCaskill tweets[/QUOTE] [URL="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/03/02/mccaskill-accused-lying-attack-sessions/98630572/"]Her response[/URL] [QUOTE]"The Russian ambassador has never called me. The Russian ambassador has never requested a meeting. I have never met with the Russian ambassador one-on-one," McCaskill said. "I went to a meeting on adoptions, and he was there. But it was a bunch of senators. And it had nothing to do with the Armed Services Committee."[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=Raidyr;51901357][URL="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/03/02/mccaskill-accused-lying-attack-sessions/98630572/"]Her response[/URL][/QUOTE] Boom

[QUOTE=archangel125;51901297]Sessions is still a felon for lying in a congressional hearing, under oath.[/QUOTE] If you watch the video in the OP, during that judiciary meeting senator Al Franken specifically talks about Trump surrogates/his communications with the Russian government in that capacity. That Washington post article talks as if he was asked about any contacts. [QUOTE]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.”[/QUOTE] Last year he was also a senior member of the Armed Services Committee and had meetings with various ambassadors in that [URL="http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/3/1/14786100/jeff-sessions-russia-trump"]capacity[/URL]. What you don't want him to do his job? Haha how naive of you etc etc... It's innocent before proven guilty. [QUOTE]There was absolutely nothing misleading about his answer,” Sessions spokesperson Sarah Isgur Flores said. “Last year, the senator had over 25 conversations with foreign ambassadors as a senior member of the Armed Services Committee, including the British, Korean, Japanese, Polish, Indian, Chinese, Canadian, Australian, German and Russian ambassadors. He was asked during the hearing about communications between Russia and the Trump campaign — not about meetings he took as a senator and a member of the Armed Services Committee.[/QUOTE] The washington post articles I'm looking at read like hit pieces. Why can't they just list events instead of going "falling apart", "remarkably misleading". Of course, I have no idea, but how good would a smear be, if the situation was clear cut. I dare say you are operating under the assumption that he must be a traitor.

We should hold sessions to the same standards we held Hillary Clinton.

[QUOTE=Lambeth;51901514]We should hold sessions to the same standards we held Hillary Clinton.[/QUOTE] Then this forum should laugh and dismiss it. "Muh emails" posts were the majority.

[QUOTE=Omesh;51901525]Then this forum should laugh and dismiss it. "Muh emails" posts were the majority.[/QUOTE] I meant collectively as a nation, not as facepunch. [editline]2nd March 2017[/editline] He either purposely lied or he's an idiot.

[QUOTE=Omesh;51901525]Then this forum should laugh and dismiss it. "Muh emails" posts were the majority.[/QUOTE] And months and scandals later Still worthless cries of "BUT HILARY" This, in Sessions own words regarding Clinton in the 90s, is an important thing to prosecute.

[QUOTE=Lambeth;51901539]I meant collectively as a nation, not as facepunch. [editline]2nd March 2017[/editline] He either purposely lied or he's an idiot.[/QUOTE] You mean an investigation? Why not, to make the matter more clear. I hope you're American because the "we" doesn't make sense otherwise.

[QUOTE=Omesh;51901569]You mean an investigation? Why not, to make the matter clear. I hope you're American because the "we" doesn't make sense otherwise.[/QUOTE] I am, I just live in Canada right now.

[url]https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/03/02/attorney-general-sessions-had-contact-with-russian-envoy-during/21871588/[/url] [quote]Attorney General Jeff Sessions met with the Russian ambassador to the U.S. before the presidential election last year, his spokeswoman confirmed, raising questions about whether he misled senators who inquired about the Trump campaign's ties to Moscow. Sarah Isgur Flores told NBC News that Sessions did have a conversation with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak last year. The meeting was first reported by The Washington Post. [b]But[/b] she said "[b]there was absolutely nothing misleading about his answer[/b]" because Sessions was asked during the hearing about "communications between Russia and the Trump campaign" and not about meetings he took as a member of the Armed Services Committee. According to his spokswoman, Sessions' meeting with Kislyak was just [b]one of 25 conversations with foreign ambassadors in his role on the committee[/b].[/quote] This really just seems like the left grasping at straws to be honest.

[QUOTE=Revelificent;51901645][url]https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/03/02/attorney-general-sessions-had-contact-with-russian-envoy-during/21871588/[/url] This really just seems like the left grasping at straws to be honest.[/QUOTE] As someone else on the committee said above, that isn't part of their job though, so he's not supposed to be doing that.

[QUOTE=Revelificent;51901645][url]https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/03/02/attorney-general-sessions-had-contact-with-russian-envoy-during/21871588/[/url] This really just seems like the left grasping at straws to be honest.[/QUOTE] It seems like trump and the people that work for him keep lying hmmmmmmm

Sounds like Franken didn't dig deep enough. Can intent to deceive be proven?

[QUOTE=Chonch;51903399]Sounds like Franken didn't dig deep enough. Can intent to deceive be proven?[/QUOTE] I'm still going to say that the way Sessions worded his response to that question is strong evidence of an intent to deceive. He knew exactly what problems have been plaguing Trump's administration regarding clandestine contacts with Russian officials, and any reasonable, honest person interested in transparency would have disclosed those meetings during the hearing. He'd still have been confirmed, and they couldn't have been used as ammo against him or the administration later on. However, for some reason, he appears to have intentionally omitted some information that would have been very relevant at his hearing. I'm sure Franken assumed he was being honest - asking Sessions to elaborate on "I had no communications with the Russians" could have been seen as hostile, so expecting Sessions to be questioned further on his statement, which was worded in such a way as to be very clear and leave no doubt, would have been unnecessary.

[QUOTE=Doctor Zedacon;51903184]As someone else on the committee said above, that isn't part of their job though, so he's not supposed to be doing that.[/QUOTE] What about the other 24+ meetings he had with other ambassadors. Clearly those were part of his job, but somehow the Russian guy is not.