Jeff Sessions's Unforced Error
The attorney general’s testimony about communications with Russian officials during the 2016 campaign has landed him in hot water.
The Washington Post’s report that Attorney General Jeff Sessions spoke twice with Russian Ambassador Sergei Kislyak during the 2016 presidential campaign has made an exchange between Minnesota Democratic Senator Al Franken and Sessions during his confirmation hearing the focus of questions about whether Sessions misled Congress.
On January 10, in response to a question from Franken, Sessions said that he had no communications with the Russian government. Here is the exchange:
FRANKEN: OK. CNN has just published a story and I'm telling you this about a news story that's just been published. I'm not expecting you to know
