The Most Damning Parts of Jeff Sessions Very Bad Day

[babylonsister]

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/06/jeff-sessions-senate-hearing-russia-stonewalling/


The Most Damning Parts of Jeff Sessions’ Very Bad Day
”The American people have had it with stonewalling.”

Inae Oh
Jun. 13, 2017 5:52 PM



Senators on Tuesday grilled Attorney General Jeff Sessions during a Senate intel committee hearing for refusing to discuss his conversations with President Donald Trump.

“The American people have had it with stonewalling,” Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) said. “Americans don’t want to hear that the answers to relevant questions are privileged and off limits or that they can’t be provided in public, or that it would be ‘inappropriate’ for witnesses to tell us what they know.”

“General Sessions has acknowledged that there is no legal basis for this stonewalling,” the senator added.

“Sen. Wyden, I am not stonewalling,” Sessions pushed back. “I am following the historic policies of the Department of Justice.”

Sessions grew visibly angry when the Oregon senator then suggested there may be troublesome factors behind his recusal from the Russian interference investigation.

“Why don’t you tell me?” Sessions said, raising his voice. “There are none Sen. Wyden. There are none. I can tell you that for absolute certainty. This is a secret innuendo being leaked out there about me and I don’t appreciate it.”

The testy exchange was quickly followed by intense lines of questioning from Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Sen. Angus King (I-Me.), both of whom described Sessions’ appearance as an attempt to avoid providing substantive answers to the ongoing probe. The senators specifically portrayed Sessions’ continued justification for his silence—executive privilege—as problematic.

“You are obstructing that congressional investigation by not answering these questions,” Henrich said, telling Sessions his silence on the issue “speaks volumes.”

“You can’t have it both ways,” King said, as Sessions struggled to explain how he can invoke executive privilege, even though Trump has yet to assert it.

When Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) asked if there was any written policy to support his continued refusal to answer questions about his private conversations between him and the president, Sessions again appeared to stumble.

“I’m not able to be rushed this fast,” he said. “It makes me nervous.”

Throughout the hearing Tuesday, Sessions repeatedly defended his silence as a part of the Justice Department’s “longstanding policy” to decline commenting on private conversations between him and the president. Sessions started the hearing by defiantly denying any “collusion” between him and Russian officials.

[panader0]

1. Mr Sessions seems to have a very bad memory.

"I don't recall, not to my recollection", etc a hundred times or more.
Even if that bad memory is true, it means he is too stupid to serve the people.

[Amaryllis]

9. This is the explanation for that:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1016187046

[rusty fender]

2. He's a rather dumb,

racist hobgoblin

[jmg257]

3. Daming?? He got away pretty much clean. Gave nothing other then 'there is nothing'.

A waste.

[orangecrush]

4. ...

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[Eliot Rosewater]

6. To perfect that, put a comma after liar, then too

but i love it, how sad is this country now

[Eliot Rosewater]

5. He's nervous, if there is any justice left in this nation, he ought to be.

Can you fathom how fast a democrat would be impeached if they did one one hundredth of anything trump has done.

Hell, on emoluments alone ANY democrat is impeached literally on day one.

[Phoenix61]

7. I can't be rushed? It makes me nervous?

He's the fucking AG not some first year law student at a mock trial. Give me a fucking break. Pathetic little racist weasel. The only reason he is nervous is it takes a tremendous amount of energy and thought to keep all the lies straight. If he was telling the truth it would be easy. I don't recall Comey "getting nervous." He seemed pretty darn relaxed. Joking about how he'd rather have kept his date with his wife then had dinner with Twitler.

[MyOwnPeace]

10. Very good insight!

Yes, this guy is to be THE "lawyer" for the USA, not a "first year law student."
Guess Ryan will come out to defend him by saying "he's new at this" - you know, like some other "not-ready-for-prime-time" office holder............

[gratuitous]

8. "I'm not able to be rushed this fast"

As the old saying goes, figures don't lie, but liars always figure. Sessions was getting in deep, and Sen. Harris' questions were forcing him to weigh too many factors at once. When you're fudging the truth, haste makes it more likely that you'll inadvertently blurt out the wrong thing (which can be a lie or the truth).

[MyOwnPeace]

12. I've found him!

Atty. Gen. Session's mentor, revered instructor and guru, Mr. Nathan Thurm!

http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/saturday-night-news-segment---nathan-thurm/n9331?snl=1

[Grown2Hate]

15. I know you found him. What makes you think I don't know you found him? It's funny that you would

think I DON'T know you found him... **puffs cigarette**

[Solly Mack]

11. K&R

[smirkymonkey]

13. Lying sack of shit.

I am so sick of these corrupt, deceitful bastards. I want to see them all behind bars.

[asiliveandbreathe]

14. It seems, we are now roaming around in the wilderness - no rule of law - no ethics

in the DOJ..lying, obstructing justice, a so-called president, waging war with the Russians on America...with the republicans complicit in the effort...pathetic....

I am going to say it again - I think cheato is broke.....Russia could take him down at any time....putin just isn't done yet...

RESIST.....RESIST, RESIST, RESIST..

[GallopingGhost]

16. They're spinning it on CNN right now

that he did a fabulous job, it was a great day for Sessions, no evidence of collusion. blah blah blah.

He lied his ass off, and he's not even a good liar. And Tom Cotton.

[malaise]

17. Truth will out

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