Dem on Sessions' Russia jokes: He 'still doesn't get it' [View all]
Source: the hill
By Jesse Byrnes - 11/17/17 08:01 PM EST
Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) slammed Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Friday for joking about whether any Russians were in attendance at one of his speeches in Washington.
"Jeff Sessions still doesn’t get it," Lieu said on CNN's "The Situation Room," calling Sessions' comments inappropriate.
"He is not in trouble because he happened to be in places where there were Russians," Lieu said of the attorney general.
"He is in trouble because he had a nearly hourlong meeting with Ambassador Kislyak – [who] is also a spy – and then he failed to disclose the existence of that meeting under oath to the U.S. Senate."
Sessions joked about connections to Russia before a speech at the conservative Federalist Society convention earlier Friday................................
Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/house/360993-dem-on-sessions-russia-jokes-he-still-doesnt-get-it
Joking about flaunting the law. damn
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Kyle Griffin?Verified account @kylegriffin1
Sessions, who recused himself from the Russia probe, jokes about his campaign contacts with Russians during an event at the Mayflower Hotel: "Is Ambassador Kislyak in the room?... Anybody been to Russia?" (via CSPAN)
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