Senators on that committee are expected to question Sessions about his meetings with Russians - a topic that has come under increased scrutiny amid investigations into Russian meddling in the US presidential election. Lankford is on the intelligence committee, the forum for last week's riveting Comey testimony and Tuesday's hearing.
US Attorney General Jeff Sessions will testify publicly to a Senate panel, the committee's chairman said, setting up another potentially dramatic congressional hearing on possible ties between President Donald Trump's campaign and Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential race.
"Both opponents and supporters of the president feel they gathered more ammunition from yesterday's hearing, so this fight isn't going away anytime soon", said Michael Steel, a onetime senior aide to former House Speaker John A. Boehner and 2016 GOP presidential candidate Jeb Bush.
Oliver also found hilarity in Comey saying he documented his meetings with Trump because he was afraid the president would lie about their interactions, comparing Comey's uncomfortable feelings to those of a person who thought they were about to be murdered. Susan Collins, R-Maine, a member of that committee, referring to the existence of any recordings.
The problem for Trump is that Comey is a largely credible witness, and his testimony under oath was detailed and shocking.
"He said he would testify".
Attorney General Jeff Sessions looks on during a Cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House, on June 12, 2017 in Washington, D.C.
Trump's aides have dodged questions about whether conversations relevant to the Russian Federation investigation have been recorded, and so has the president. What can you tell us about this? While Comey did not run to tell Sessions of his concerns over what the President supposedly said about the investigation of Michael Flynn, Comey did say he asked Sessions to shield him from Mr. Trump, anxious by the President's phone calls and questions.
Trump's Russian collusion saga has, in many ways, "all the potential national shame of Watergate, brought to you by people too stupid to grasp the concept of shame", the "Last Week Tonight" host opened on Sunday.
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Khamenei had initially played down the attacks, describing them as "firecrackers" that "will not have the slightest effect on the will of the people". "We are agents of nobody".
"We want to be able to get his side of it", Lankford said.
Meanwhile, the Senate investigation into collusion with Russian Federation or obstruction of justice is extending to a Trump Cabinet member. Some political and legal leaders believe Comey detailed a case for obstruction of justice.
"James Comey better hope that there are no "tapes" of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press!" "Totally illegal?" he asked in a tweet. But, added Lankford "releasing his memos is not damaging to national security".
Comey says he had more private conversations with Trump in a few months than he had in three years with President Barack Obama.
Preet Bharara told ABC's This Week that Trump was trying to "cultivate some kind of relationship" with him when he called him twice before the inauguration to "shoot the breeze".
Trump does this so often that reporters call him out in news stories for it.
"Mueller can say in a report that it's obstruction of justice, but so what?" I think there's absolutely evidence to begin a case.
Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, a member of the Intelligence committee, sent a letter to Sen. And the possible contradiction with the comments of Donald Trump Jr.
There is a way that Sessions could skirt around having to directly answer these questions, however.
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