Agree, but that is not a legal reason for refusing to answer questions - he is probably in contempt of congress if they wanted to press the issue.
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Subtext by McCain seems to be saying Sessions didn't pay any attention to Armed Senate committee Russian issues normally so why the hell was he talking to Russian ambassador in his role as a senator during the campaign.
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Sessions answering questions here like my daughter does when I know she's lying.
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haven't really been paying attention to this balloon for a week or two , is he still in charge?
Kushner, he'll get right on it once he's introduced Mid East peace, fixed the opioid crisis and streamlined government.
After all he seems to have already expressed interest in Russian communication technology
On CNN, there was a panel speaking in a dire tone about the Sessions testimony. Every line that came out of their mouths deserved pushback. I watched the hearing, and it was obvious to me that CNN's talking heads were distorting things — always in the direction of bolstering the belief that President Trump is in big trouble — but it's not in print, so how do I blog it? Spend my time doing my own transcriptions? Video the television and put up my homemade clip? I could. But I thought, this is why I stick with the written word. The flow of crap on TV is too awful. You just have to shut it off. Back to print.
http://althouse.blogspot.com/2017/06/i-rarely-turn-on-television-in-morning.html
http://althouse.blogspot.com/2017/06/i-rarely-turn-on-television-in-morning.html
So we aren't going to staff the State department for at least another 6 months? And just presume that no foreign issues will pop up in the time?
I can't believe none of them asked Sessions if he discussed sanctions (and the possible lifting of them) with the Russian ambassador.
I don't think there'll be any evidence of the Trump campaign directly asking or aiding Russia with regard to hacking but I'd say Trump surrogates definitely talked about the easing of sanctions in the run up to the election while aware of Russian meddling.
I would also imagine that Kushner and Trump both talked to Russian businessmen about the lifting of sanctions. A lot of people stood to make a lot of money from the lifting of sanctions, Tillerson included.
To me, it's clear they are the key yet they weren't mentioned once yesterday.
I don't think there'll be any evidence of the Trump campaign directly asking or aiding Russia with regard to hacking but I'd say Trump surrogates definitely talked about the easing of sanctions in the run up to the election while aware of Russian meddling.
I would also imagine that Kushner and Trump both talked to Russian businessmen about the lifting of sanctions. A lot of people stood to make a lot of money from the lifting of sanctions, Tillerson included.
To me, it's clear they are the key yet they weren't mentioned once yesterday.
Manchin tried to follow the sanctions issue but wasn't particularly clear and Sessions did his "I do not recall" act
But agree, if there is a link between the Russians and the Trump campaign it is far more likely to be about lifting sanctions or other financial dealings like Kushner real estate than it is collusion in subverting the election.
Tbh in a way things have moved on from Russia collusion, if the Trump admin had just left Comey in place and the Russia investigation trundling on think that line of questioning would have run out of steam quite quickly.
However they are taking such dramatic actions, to fire Comey and smear/possibly fire Mueller, they are certainly acting like there is something very dubious to be found in their behaviour.
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This is exactly how things should be, only more so, according to the freakshow libertarianism that prevails in - or at least provides ideological cover for - the Republican Party.
If you want medical care then you should get off the couch and earn what it takes to pay the market rate, else rely on the private kindness of strangers. It would be immoral to reduce by so much as a penny the wealth of multibillionaires in order to subsidize your own physical or moral shortcomings. If the logical outcome of this approach is neofeudalism, with the United States permanently stratified into impermeable social and economic classes, then so be it. Whatever outcome the market delivers is the Best of All Possible Worlds, and nobody has any right to interfere.
When Grover Norquist whines that Brownback failed in Kansas only because its voters were to cowardly to cut spending, this is the alternative he envisions.
This is the endgame of Republican healthcare legislation, which so far nobody is permitted even to review prior to approval.
Bets on a Nixon like firing of Rosenstein, various DOJ officials and eventually Mueller over the weekend?
I'm a hopeless gambler but would put the chances as over 50%.
Noticeable he didn't include "untrue" in his list...
Hell of a birthday present for the president.
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