Jeff Sessions Stonewalls Congress... Will It Work?

TODAY THE ATTY.
GEN.
JEFF
SESSIONS TESTIFIED, AND HE DID HIS DAMNEDEST TO SAY AS LITTLE
AS POSSIBLE.
ALONG THE WAY HE CRAFTED THIS VERY INTERESTING BS
LEGAL ARGUMENT FOR WHY HE DIDN'T NEED TO ANSWER THEIR QUESTIONS,
WHILE AT THE SAME TIME NOT ASSERTING OR HAVING DONALD TRUMP
ASSERT EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE.
THIS HAPPENED OVER AND OVER
THROUGHOUT THE TESTIMONY, BUT WE
WILL START OFF WITH SESSIONS.
WHAT
IS THE BASIS OF YOUR REFUSAL TO ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS?
SEN.
CAN, THE PRESIDENT HAS A CONSTITUTIONAL ñ
BUT THE PRESIDENT HAS NOT ASSERTED IT.
YOU SAID YOU HAVE
THE POWER TO ASSERT POWER OF EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE, SO WHAT IS
THE LEGAL BASIS FOR YOUR REFUSAL TO ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS?
I AM PROTECTING THE RIGHT OF THE PRESIDENT TO ASSERT IT.
I
WILL ASSERT IF HE CHOOSES.
THERE MAY BE OTHER PRIVILEGES THAT
COULD APPLY IN THE CIRCUMSTANCE.
IT'S BOTH INFURIATING AND FUNNY.
HE IS SAYING THAT HE IS
PROTECTING HIS RIGHT TO SOMEDAY
EVER ASSERTED.
WE ARE LED TO BELIEVE THAT DONALD TRUMP DIDN'T
KNOW THAT JUST SESSIONS WOULD BE
TESTIFYING TODAY, AND DIDN'T KNOW THAT HE COULD EXIST ASSERT
EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE IF HE WANTED
TO. IS THAT WHAT IS HAPPENING?
I DON'T THINK SO.
AGAIN BEFORE THEY EVEN CAME THEY WERE PREPARING FOR THIS.
KELLYANNE CONWAY BEFORE HE EVEN CAME ON SAID SESSIONS IS WILLING
TO COOPERATE AND SHARE WHAT HE
KNOWS.
SO OF COURSE ARE YOU SURE WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW?
SO HE WILL
SAY WHAT WE CAN SAY AND NOT SAY.
THERE WERE REASONS BEHIND THIS
WHOLE TESTIMONY IN THE FIRST
PLACE.
SOME OF THE THINGS THAT FORMER FBI DIRECTOR JAMES COMEY
SAID ABOUT HIS WORRIES AND ISSUES WITH JEFF SESSIONS
RECUSAL FROM THE RUSSIAN
INVESTIGATION, ALSO IF HE IS RECUSED HOW MUCH OF A HAND HE
HAD IN THE FIRING OF JAMES COMEY BECAUSE AS THE PRESIDENT SAID HE
WAS FIRED BECAUSE OF THE RUSSIA INVESTIGATION, THAT HE WASN'T,
AND THAT HE WAS, BUT THEN HE WASN'T, BUT THEN AFTER HE WAS.
SO AS WE GO THROUGH THIS
REMEMBER THERE WAS A LOT OF ANGLES.
LAST WEEK WHEN KAMALA
HARRIS WAS ASKING ABOUT HIS
ANGLES AND POTENTIAL ALLOWANCE OF LETTING THE RUSSIAN
INVESTIGATION GO, THAT IS THE REASON WHY THIS IS CULMINATED
TO WHERE WE ARE?
WE WILL TOUCH ON A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT ANGLES.
I WISH WE HAD
MORE WE COULD REVEAL.
WHEN YOU COMBINE THE FACT THAT HE
APPARENTLY DOESN'T REMEMBER
ANYTHING ABOUT HIS LIFE WITH THE FEW THINGS THAT HE DOES REMEMBER
HE IS SAYING HE DOESN'T HAVE TO TALK ABOUT.
YOU GET ALMOST NO
INFORMATION.
I WANT YOU TO CONSIDER WHAT IT WOULD BE LIKE
IF EVERYONE TESTIFYING BEFORE
CONGRESS OR BEFORE A SPECIAL COUNSEL USED THIS ARGUMENT.
THAT
WE DON'T HAVE TO ASSERT EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE BECAUSE
SOMEDAY PERHAPS THE PRESIDENT
MIGHT WANT TO.
THAT IS COOL BECAUSE THEN YOU GET ALL OF THE
BENEFITS OF EXERTING EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE WITHOUT HAVING THE
OBVIOUS SUSPICIOUS NATURE OF
THAT.
I DON'T THINK IT'S GOING TO WORK, I THINK IT'S OBVIOUS
THAT IT IS WEIRD THAT HE REFUSES TO REVEAL ANYTHING ABOUT HIS
CONVERSATIONS WITH DONALD TRUMP.
ALL OF THESE INCREDIBLY RELEVANT
QUESTIONS.
I WOULD SAY THE REASONS SESSIONS WAS BROUGHT IN
IN THE FIRST PLACE ñ HE CAN'T TALK ABOUT THAT BECAUSE SOMEDAY
DONALD TRUMP MIGHT WANT TO USE EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE.
THAT IS
ABSOLUTE BS, NONE OF THE
SENATORS WERE BUYING IT.
I LOOKED AT THE MEDIA COVERAGE OF
THIS AND INTERESTINGLY FOX NEWS, BREITBART, NO MENTION OF THIS
WEIRD LEGAL STRATEGY IN THEIR
COVERAGE.
YOU NEED TO KNOW GOING IN THAT IS THE MAIN IMPEDIMENT
TO US KNOWING MORE ABOUT WHAT IS GOING ON.
THEY DON'T WANT TO
REVEAL ANYTHING, BUT THEY ALSO
KNOW HOW BAD IT WILL LOOK IF THEY CHOOSE NOT TO UNDER THEIR
ACTUAL CONSTITUTIONAL ABILITIES.
I DID SEE HIS OPENING STATEMENT.
JEFF SESSIONS ñ HE
ADMITTED THAT HE WAS IN A WAY INVOLVED WITH THE RECOMMENDATION
TO FIRE JAMES COMEY.
HE SAID I ADMIT IT, BUT JUST BECAUSE I
RECUSE MYSELF FROM A RUSSIAN INVESTIGATION BECAUSE I WAS PART
OF THE CAMPAIGN, DOESN'T MEAN THAT I AM NOT ALLOWED TO HAVE
INPUT ON THE FBI DIRECTOR BECAUSE THERE ARE TONS OF
INVESTIGATIONS GOING ON.
AT LEAST HE ADMITTED THAT HE HAD A
PART IN THAT, BUT THEN HE HAD A
JUSTIFICATION FOR IT.
EXACTLY.
THE ISSUE OF WHETHER JUST SESSIONS AND HIS RECUSAL IS
WORTH A DAMN WAS A BIG PART OF AT LEAST THE FIRST HALF OF THE
TESTIMONY.
HE HAS A GREAT QUOTE.
HE ATTEMPTS TO DISTRACT, THIS
WEIRD EMOTIONAL TANGENT.
RESPECTFULLY, NOT ANSWERING THE QUESTION ñ
WHAT IS THE QUESTION?
JAMES COMEY SAID THAT THERE WERE MATTERS WITH RESPECT TO THE
RECUSAL THAT WERE PROBLEMATIC AND HE COULDN'T TALK ABOUT THEM.
WHAT ARE THEY?
WHY DON'T YOU TELL ME?
THEY ARE NONE SEN.
THEY ARE NONE.
I
CAN TELL YOU THAT FOR ABSOLUTE ñ
CERTAINTY.
AND HE ALSO WENT ON TO SAY THIS EVENTUALLY.
NO ONE IS
ACCUSING YOU OF THAT, THAT DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE.
I'D HAVE
NO IDEA WHAT YOU ARE TALKING
ABOUT.
THEY ARE ACCUSING YOU OF SOMETHING VERY SIMPLE.
YOU ARE
INVOLVED IN THE SIGN LETTER THAT RECOMMENDED THE JAMES COMEY GET
FIRED.
AS JAYAR JACKSON POINTED OUT, HIS DEFENSE IS SAYING I
DIDN'T RECUSE MYSELF FROM EVERYTHING HAVING TO DO WITH THE
FBI, WHICH IS TRUE.
BUT YOU KNOW DAMN WELL THE SITUATION
WHERE YOU HAVE DONALD TRUMP
SAYING WHAT WAS ON HIS MIND, WAS THAT THE RUSSIAN INVESTIGATION
IS A HOAX AND HE NEEDS TO BE SHUT DOWN.
THE IDEA THAT YOU
DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT THAT THAT YOU DON'T KNOW THAT THAT'S THE
PRINCIPAL THING THAT JAMES COMEY IS WORKING ON AT THAT PARTICULAR
MOMENT, WE KNOW FROM NEWS REPORTS OF THE TIME THAT HE HAD
JUST REQUESTED ADDITIONAL RESOURCES FOR THAT
INVESTIGATION.
HE IS FIRED INSIDE OF 48 HOURS OF THAT
REQUEST.
YOU MIGHT HAVE SOME SORT OF CASE THAT THIS DOESN'T
VIOLATE RECUSAL IF WE FORGET EVERYTHING ELSE WE KNOW ABOUT
WHAT HAS BEEN GOING ON IN THIS
COUNTRY.

Jeff Sessions Stonewalls Congress... Will It Work?

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