In a television interview, she also said the committee should investigate actions by former U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch in the FBI investigation of Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server.
Apparently, that made Sessions a little nervous-and so a hook was born. "The suggestion that I participated in any collusion ... is an appalling and detestable lie", he insisted.
The AP-NORC poll of 1,068 adults was conducted June 8-11 using a sample drawn from NORC's probability-based AmeriSpeak panel, which is created to be representative of the US population. The office of Director of National Intelligence and Ledgett declined to comment. Comey testified that he could not discuss the specifics with Sessions because the AG was recused from the FBI's investigation of possible ties between the Trump campaign and Russian officials. "If any brief interaction occurred ..." "I recused myself from any investigation into the campaigns for president, but I did not recuse myself from defending my honor against scurrilous and false allegations", he said.
Sessions did not fall into the trap laid by questions about his private conversations with Trump regarding the investigation and the firing of FBI Director James Comey.
"I am protecting the right of the president to assert it if he chooses, and there may be other privileges that apply", he said.
"I'm not claiming executive privilege, because that's the president's power, and I have no power to claim executive privilege", he told ranking member Mark Warner. In 2016, the presidential candidate Trump, the political newcomer, thwarted the election campaign strategies of experienced governors and senators - and won.
A Trump loyalist and early backer of the billionaire businessman's presidential bid, Mr Sessions has recused himself from all ongoing Russian Federation investigations.
"I am not at liberty to talk about that now, and the reason for that is that if it is within the scope of Director Mueller's investigation. we don't want people talking publicly about open investigations", he said.
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Democrats on the committee grew frustrated as Sessions continually refused to answer the questions put to him.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions came out swinging Tuesday, blasting his former colleagues in the U.S. Senate for their sham investigation into these loony accusations that somehow Mr. Sessions conspired with Russians to rig last year's election. There, the job would fall first to the person who appointed Mueller, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, because Sessions has recused himself from involvement in the probe. Comey did not do so.
President Donald Trump slammed special counsel Robert Mueller's expanding probe on Thursday, calling the inquiry into whether he obstructed justice a "phony story" and "the single greatest WITCH HUNT in American political history".
Sessions reminded the Committee that Rosenstein would be the person with the power to make such a call. Yet it is a fact that must drive White House strategists insane even as they seek to remind Americans that the Intelligence Committee hearings have done nothing to advance the wild charges about collusion. Indeed, he has barely begun his work.
It was a particularly tasteless and embarrassing line of questioning for both Sessions and Rosenstein to endure.
That doesn't mean Democrats weren't willing to throw some more mud on Sessions. Sessions responded with a definite no, but his response was more flexible when Risch asked what he would've done had he heard that. Risch seemed to suggest the committee is wasting its time looking into allegations of collusion between the Trump Campaign and Russian Federation.
President Trump said in a press conference last week that he did not ask Comey to drop the Flynn probe. He told the panel that he and others, including Trump, concluded months before Comey's termination that it was time for a "fresh start" at the bureau, adding concerns about Comey's performance were never discussed with the then-FBI chief.
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