I do not understand why Sessions agreed to testify

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9. Do these people LOOK like they have a plan?

Whatever staves off the day of reckoning, if even for less than a week, that's another couple of days they'll have to figure out something else or, the good lord below willing, some catastrophe overtakes the country and we all have to attend to that instead of chasing down these lying motherfuckers.

The hero is trapped above a cliff, enemies on all sides moving in for the kill. The only thing the hero can do is jump to certain death, but it buys him 10 seconds. Maybe an eagle swoops down, or there's a sturdy tree growing out of the cliff face?