Attorney General Jeff Sessions is for sharp questioning by senators on the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday. Shelby chairs the Senate appropriations subcommittee.
"Some members have publicly stated their intention to focus their questions on issues related to the investigation into Russian interference into Russian interference in the 2016 election, " his letter said. Comey was leading that probe. He had told lawmakers at his January confirmation hearing that he had not met with Russians during the campaign.
Reed spoke on "Fox News Sunday". There had been some question as to whether the hearing would be open to the public, but the Justice Department said Monday he requested it be so because he "believes it is important for the American people to hear the truth directly from him".
He said Trump reached out to him again after the inauguration but he refused to call back, shortly before he was sacked. Bharara was asked for his resignation, along with other US attorneys, but he refused and was sacked.
Trump on Sunday accused Comey of "cowardly" leaks and predicted many more from him.
And he can expect questions about his involvement in Comey's May 9 firing, the circumstances surrounding his decision to recuse himself from the FBI's investigation, and whether any of his actions - such as interviewing candidates for the FBI director position or meeting with Trump about Comey - violated his recusal pledge. Trump says on Twitter, "Totally illegal?"
Sessions said he learned members of those subcommittees planned to ask him questions about the investigation into Russian election meddling, and decided the Senate Intelligence Committee was a more appropriate venue to field those questions.
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Mr Barnier, a former minister in the French government, said Britons had the right to know the "consequences" of leaving the EU. May needs all the help she can get, given the near-impossibility of the challenge she now faces.
It was a sign of escalating 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.
-Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer of NY said he would take Trump up on his offer to testify under oath about his conversations with Comey, inviting the president to testify before the Senate. He contended that information was not classified or otherwise protected.
Mr. Comey's appearance raised new questions about the attorney general's relationship with Russian officials and others with ties to President Vladimir Putin.
Sessions recused himself from overseeing the federal Russia probe three months ago after The Washington Post reported on a pair of undisclosed meetings Sessions had during the campaign with Sergey Kislyak, the Russian ambassador to the US.
Sessions' testimony is expected to occur Tuesday in a closed meeting and to focus on the moments leading up to the private February 14 conversation where, according to Comey, President Trump pressed the then-FBI director to drop the investigation into former national security adviser Michael Flynn.
With Sessions already under fire for failing to disclose the two meetings with Russians, CNN reported last week that investigators were looking into a possible third Sessions meeting with Kislyak, on the sidelines of an April 27, 2016 campaign event in Washington.
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