Attorney General Jeff Sessions, whose contacts with Russia's ambassador to the United States during the campaign have sparked questions, has agreed to appear Tuesday before the Senate committee investigating alleged Russian meddling in the election.
During almost three hours of testimony Thursday, Comey indicated to members of the Senate Intelligence Committee that leaders at the Federal Bureau of Investigation were aware of questionable activities by Sessions. Sessions, whose contacts with Russia's ambassador to the USA during the presidential campaign has sparked questions, agreed Saturday, June 10, to appear before the Senate intelligence committee as it investigates alleged Russian meddling in the election.
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein will stand in for Sessions at the planned appropriations subcommittee hearings on Tuesday.
Back in March, Sessions stepped aside from overseeing a federal investigation into contacts between Russia and the Trump campaign after he acknowledged meeting twice past year with the Russian diplomat, Sergey Kislyak. During his January confirmation hearing he failed to disclose meetings he held with Russian officials.
Trump reached out again as president, but Bharara says he refused to return the call, because he considered these contacts inappropriate.
On March 1, The Washington Post reported that he met twice with the Russian ambassador, Sergey Kislyak, during the campaign.
He would likely face questions from senators not only about meetings with Kislyak and subsequent recusal from the federal Russian Federation probe, but also about his involvement with the President's firing of Comey last month considering Sessions' recusal from the Russian Federation investigation, which Comey had been leading.
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Comey told the panel that on Feb 14, the president had made private comments to Comey in the Oval Office that he interpreted as an improper order to drop a criminal investigation into Michael Flynn, Trump's former national security adviser.
"In light of reports regarding Mr. Comey's recent testimony", the attorney general wrote in a letter Sen.
Reports suggesting that U.S. intelligence discovered an alleged Russian hack of Republican National Committee (RNC) computers during the election campaign emerged yet in late 2016, but no leaks followed.
Sessions clarified his plans for the coming week Saturday by announcing that he would not be able to keep a scheduled appearance before a different Senate committee to review spending plans for his department and associated agencies.
Sessions wrote that "it is important that I have an opportunity to address these matters in the appropriate forum". So we were convinced - in fact, I think we'd already heard the career people were recommending that he recuse himself, that he was not going to be in contact with Russia-related matters much longer.
Sessions said Saturday that he was accepting an invitation from the Senate intelligence committee, although that was not immediately confirmed.
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