The attorney generals of Maryland and the District of Columbia have announced they have filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump, alleging he violated the USA constitution by retaining ties to a sprawling global business empire.
King said there are several things the committee, to which he belongs, wants to examine, including Sessions' contacts, if any, with Russian officials during President Donald Trump's campaign, and if Sessions had anything to do with Trump's decision to fire FBI Director James Comey.
Sessions is once again in the spotlight after former FBI Director James Comey questioned why the attorney general played a role in his firing after being forced to recuse himself from the Russian Federation investigation.
Sessions is especially important to the case because as the attorney general, he was Comey's boss, and because Comey testified "the attorney general lingered by my chair, but the president thanked him and said he wanted to speak only with me".
"He believes it is important for the American people to hear the truth directly from him and looks forward to answering the committee's questions tomorrow", DOJ spokeswoman Sarah Isgur Flores said in a statement.
The U.S. Secret Service says it doesn't have any recordings or transcripts of any tapes recorded within President Donald Trump's White House.
Sessions informed Congress that he will appear before the committee rather than send his second-in-command.
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The announcement ends initial speculation Sessions' testimony would relegated to a private, classified setting.
■ Sessions has technically recused himself from the Russian Federation investigation.
According to sources, Comey said he met with Kislyak a third time. He was an early and vocal supporter of Trump during the campaign, when most Republican lawmakers dismissed the candidate. But Comey said he didn't tell Sessions why he was so concerned.
Sessions, who was scheduled to be on Capitol Hill for a budget testimony Tuesday, will instead likely face new Russia-related questions that arose as a result of former FBI Director James Comey's congressional testimony last Thursday. But he says the president "believes that the sooner we can get this addressed and dealt with" the better.
The former Federal Bureau of Investigation director also testified that he and the agency had believed Sessions was "inevitably going to recuse" for reasons he said he could not elaborate on. Comey testified last week that Trump shooed Sessions out of the Oval Office to be alone with Comey, then asked Comey to back off the FBI's investigations into fired national security adviser Michael Flynn. Later, reports surfaced that Sessions met twice with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak - including once at the Republican National Convention, an overtly political event.
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