HOUSE OF REPS/JEFF SESSIONS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Conservatives in the House of Representatives are making a push to hold Attorney General Jeff Sessions in contempt of Congress for failing to hand over documents related to the Russia investigation, but a senior White House official said Monday [5-7-18] evening the administration is backing Sessions. ‘I think we are supportive of our Cabinet,’ White House legislative affairs director Marc Short told CNN, though he acknowledged Hill ‘frustration’ with the Justice Department over records…house Speaker Paul Ryan also appears noncommittal so far of the effort by House Intelligence Committee Chairman, Rep. Devin Nunes of California, to hold Sessions in contempt.”
-Manu Raju, Laura Jarrett and Jeremy Herb, “White House backs Sessions as some House Republicans push to hold him in contempt,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, May 7, 2018 7:34 pm