White House Changes Subject to Health Care
Democrats happy to discuss issue they see as winner for them
Posted Jun 14, 2017 5:05 AM
John T. Bennett
As Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday fanned the flames of the Russia scandal that hangs over Donald Trump’s presidency, the White House appeared eager to change the subject to health care.
And that appears to be just fine with Democrats amid a messaging war over the Republicans’ crafting of a replacement for the 2010 health care law that Trump claims will be “far better” than the Obama-era system.
Sessions tussled with Democrats on the Intelligence panel Tuesday during dramatic testimony as Trump was en route to Wisconsin aboard Air Force One. The attorney general declined to answer questions about conversations with Trump, citing the potential that the White House could assert executive privilege — which has not yet happened.
And he denied meeting with the Russian ambassador to the United States following a foreign policy speech last April by then-candidate Trump at Washington’s Mayflower Hotel. Sessions defiantly pushed back on notions that his attending the same event as the ambassador, Sergey Kislyak, would constitute proof of collusion.
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