ATTORNEY GENERAL/LEGAL/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE/JEFF SESSIONS: “Attorney General Jeff Sessions will testify at a public hearing of the Senate intelligence committee Tuesday [6-13-17] afternoon, the committee said in a statement.
This will be the first time Sessions has testified in Congress since he recused himself from the Justice Department’s probe into Russian meddling in last year’s election and the firing of FBI Director James Comey.
Questions have arisen about Sessions’ own involvement in the Trump campaign and his meetings with Sergey Kislyak, the Russian ambassador to the US.
Pressure mounted at the start of the week following reports that Sessions offered his resignation to Trump because the President blamed Sessions for exacerbating his Russia problems by recusing himself from the probe.
‘(Sessions) believes it is important for the American people to hear the truth directly from him and looks forward to answering the committee’s questions tomorrow,’ a Justice Department spokesperson said.
As late as Sunday, the Justice Department signaled it expected Sessions testimony to be closed but said the final decision was up to the committee.”
-Tom LoBianco, Manu Raju, and Laura Jarrett, “Attorney General Jeff Sessions to testify in public Tuesday,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, June 12, 2017 12:36pm