-United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions will face questions on Tuesday about his dealings with Russian officials and whether he intentionally misled Congress as a Senate panel investigates the Kremlin's alleged involvement in the 2016 USA presidential election. According to sources familiar with the closed briefing, former Federal Bureau of Investigation director James Comey said Sessions may have met with Kislyak a third time.
Senators want to get Sessions' take on all this.
"The Attorney General has requested that this hearing be public", Justice Department spokeswoman Sarah Isgur Flores said in a statement.
"What role did he play, if any, again in the Comey firing?" Al Franken and Patrick Leahy - who initially pressed Sessions in his confirmation hearings on Russian contacts - wrote to Comey seeking an investigation into whether Sessions perjured himself when he said he had no contacts.
Sessions, a former senator and an early supporter of Trump's election campaign, will be the most senior government official to testify to the committee on the Russian Federation issue.
Sessions is likely to face questions by the Senate Intelligence Committee, chaired by Sen.
Sessions also is likely to face questions about Comey's cryptic assertion that the FBI knew of a "problematic" reason that Sessions should not oversee the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein says he will "defend the integrity" of the special counsel's investigation into Russian interference in the USA elections. "If they do not come to any agreement, of course the matter could be litigated".
A Trump confidant, Chris Ruddy, told "PBS NewsHour" on Monday that the president was weighing whether to fire the special counsel now heading up the investigation, former FBI Director Robert Mueller.
It also means the Russian Federation storm will continue to swamp Trump's agenda.
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"James Comey told his story to the Senate". It is the latest fallout from riveting testimony from Comey last week of undue pressure from Trump, which drew an angry response from the president on Friday that Comey was lying.
Suddenly upon formally joining the Trump campaign in March 2016 and being named the symbolic head of Trump's policy operation, Sessions found himself (as a former Trump campaign operative tells Ioffe) "the go-to person for all the foreign-policy people trying to give their advice to the campaign".
The last person to leave was Jared Kushner, who also stood by my chair and exchanged pleasantries with me. Ruddy never spoke to the President regarding this issue. "I would hope that he would answer the questions".
That's why the reports last week that Sessions offered to resign over a new, incredible strain between the two, was surprising. If so, had the president asked him beforehand in some other time or place? CNN reported in May that Sessions omitted any of these meetings from his SF-86. "It's really under Sessions' control tomorrow which questions he wants to answer". And the same committee asked Comey for his memos about conversations with Mr. Trump. He said he didn't have an answer.
White House spokesman Sean Spicer declined to say if he thought Sessions should refrain from revealing his conversations with the president, saying it "depends on the scope of the questions".
Members of the Appropriations Committee were none too happy with Sessions' decision. Sen.
The view of the USA attorney general coming before a group of aggressive senators may paint a picture similar to the media bonanza of Comey's blockbuster hearing last week. Comey asked last week.
JOHNSON: Well, the Justice Department says Jeff Sessions was not silent when Comey complained about Trump calling.
"The attorney general's involvement is highly questionable, to be blunt, and I think those questions will be raised".
"I should not be involved investigating a campaign I had a role in", he said.
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