Sessions wanted this open hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee so he could respond to fired FBI Director James Comey.
As the Senate intelligence committee asked Sessions repeatedly why he refused to answer certain questions regarding Trump, the president was watching. "The investigation has been cloaked in secrecy, and it is unclear how many others have been questioned by the FBI", it said.
"It is hard to see how he can continue to serve", according to the release.
What's not clear is if Trump will be forced to invoke executive privilege to stop Sessions from testifying again, or from handing over the documents senators requested Tuesday.
The effort to muddy the waters surrounding the investigation is coming amid growing White House concern that the probe could detract from the president's agenda for months or years to come.
But White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters traveling aboard Air Force One late on June 13 that "while the president has the right to" fire Mueller, "he has no intention to do so". Comey - a man whom, it was revealed Tuesday, Sessions wanted gone before Day 1 - intimated in testimony last week that Sessions' potential conflicts went deeper than were originally known.
How else do you explain Trump praising Comey one moment - just days before the presidential election in November - for having the "guts" to make public the FBI's probe into Hillary Clinton's private email server and then firing him in May for his handling of that same investigation?
This "limited information" that Sessions said he received to make his recusal decision would seem to correspond to classified "facts" that Comey said made "his continued engagement in a Russia-related investigation problematic".
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Ms sanders also said says the president was pleased with attorney general Jeff Sessions' evidence to Congress on Tuesday. Trump took to his Twitter account Thursday morning to denounce the report.
"Like the silence of Rep. Coats and Admiral Rogers, I think your silence speaks volumes", Heinrich said.
For starters, the deputy attorney general now overseeing the Russian Federation investigation, who did the hiring and would have to do the firing, assured a congressional committee he would resist an unwarranted dismissal order: "I'm not going to follow any order unless I believe they are lawful and appropriate orders". And it's conceivable that that occurred. "I knew that Director Comey, long-time experienced in the Department of Justice, could handle himself well", Sessions told Sen. When Comey came forward saying he was reopening the investigation in October of a year ago, Sessions praised him. He also said he had no access to nor did he seek out any information about the investigation before he formally announced he would recuse himself.
Trump vowed to drain the swamp in the nation's capital but instead muddied the waters by bringing in more political hacks, white nationalists and a cabal of advisers with suspicious ties to Russian Federation and other foreign governments.
I'm having a hard time seeing former Federal Bureau of Investigation director James Comey as a victim.
Trump wasn't under investigation personally prior to Comey's firing on May 9.
The committee leaders said in a statement that they "look forward to future engagements" with Mr Mueller.
The questions will continue, especially of everyone who steps before Congress, but Trump allies have proved that even going under oath won't shed light on the full details surrounding the Russian Federation investigation and whether Trump pressured high-ranking officials to drop it.
And Trump allies have already been trying to insulate themselves and the president by attempting to delegitimize whatever Mueller comes up with.
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