No apologies from Attorney General Jeff Sessions on his Russia testimony. Sessions defended his testimony stating “My answer was correct.”
He was answering a specific question from former Saturday Night Live performer, turned politician Al Franken.
From The Hill
Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Monday defended his decision not to mention his talks with the Russian ambassador to the U.S. while under oath during his confirmation hearing, a decision that eventually led to his recusal from his department’s probe into Moscow’s interference in the 2016 election. “My answer was correct,” Sessions wrote in a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee that he used to further explain his testimony.
“I did not mention communications I had had with the Russian ambassador over the years because the question did not ask about them,” Sessions wrote.
In his letter, the former Trump campaign surrogate only said he does “not recall any discussions with the Russian ambassador, or any other representative of the Russian government, about the campaign.”
Sessions’s confirmation hearing answers about his previously undisclosed talks with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak, which were revealed by The Washington Post last week, set off a major firestorm in Washington.
It led to Sessions’ recusal from any election-related investigations, a decision he said he began to discuss with senior Justice Department officials in late February.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said he was satisfied with Sessions’ answers and would not call him back to testify about his confirmation hearing.
