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Trump Says He Has Little Memory of Meeting With Papadopoulos

EghtesadOnline: President Donald Trump said he doesn’t remember much about a March 2016 meeting in which a campaign foreign policy adviser raised the idea of seeking meetings with Russian officials and then continued contacts with Russian intermediaries.
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Publish Date:04/November/2017 | 11:41

Intelligence Leaks Targeted by Sessions Echoing Trump's View

EghtesadOnline: U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions said he’s stepping up efforts to investigate and prosecute leaks of classified information with help from a new counterintelligence unit at the FBI, working to address a top concern of President Donald Trump.
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Publish Date:06/August/2017 | 06:10

New White House chief of staff assures attorney general his job is safe

EghtesadOnline: New White House Chief of Staff John Kelly told Attorney General Jeff Sessions last weekend that his job was safe after Sessions endured several weeks of sharp public criticism from President Donald Trump, a senior U.S. official said on Wednesday.
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Publish Date:03/August/2017 | 14:19

Trump Says Sessions Let Him Down But Won't Say If He'll Be Fired

EghtesadOnline: President Donald Trump said he’s disappointed with Attorney General Jeff Sessions for recusing himself from investigations of Russian interference in the 2016 election, and that “time will tell” if the nation’s top law enforcement officer remains in his job.
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Publish Date:26/July/2017 | 05:14

Sessions asks 46 Obama-era U.S. attorneys to resign

EghtesadOnline: U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions abruptly asked the remaining 46 chief federal prosecutors left over from the Obama administration to resign on Friday, including Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, who had been asked to stay on in November by then President-elect Donald Trump.
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Publish Date:11/March/2017 | 24:14

Attorney General Sessions defends reply on Russia contacts

EghtesadOnline: U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Monday defended his conduct at a January confirmation hearing where he denied having contacts with Russian officials during the course of the presidential campaign when he was an adviser to Donald Trump.
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Publish Date:07/March/2017 | 05:58

Sessions Recusal Puts Russia Probe Pressure on Choice for No. 2

EghtesadOnline: The stakes are suddenly much higher for the veteran prosecutor nominated to be top deputy to Attorney General Jeff Sessions : Rod Rosenstein would shoulder all the pressure of the investigation into Russian meddling in the presidential campaign.
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Publish Date:06/March/2017 | 11:37

Pelosi calls on Sessions to quit after Post discloses Russia contacts

EghtesadOnline: U.S. House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi called on Attorney General Jeff Sessions to resign on Wednesday after the Washington Post reported he failed to disclose two meetings he had with Russia's ambassador before Donald Trump was inaugurated as president.
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Publish Date:02/March/2017 | 24:44

Sessions Met Twice With Russian Envoy During Trump Campaign

EghtesadOnline: Attorney General Jeff Sessions had conversations with Russia’s ambassador to the U.S. while he was a prominent surrogate for Donald Trump’s election campaign, even though he said during his confirmation hearing that no contacts had occurred, the Justice Department confirmed late Wednesday.
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Publish Date:02/March/2017 | 10:03

Trump picks conservative loyalists for top security, law enforcement jobs

EghtesadOnline: U.S. President-elect Donald Trump picked three conservative loyalists to lead his national security and law enforcement teams on Friday, underscoring his campaign promise to take a hard line confronting Islamist militancy and curbing illegal immigration.
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Publish Date:19/November/2016 | 06:19

Conservatives have concerns about Sessions as Trump's attorney general

EghtesadOnline: President-elect Donald Trump on Friday named his earliest and staunchest supporter in the Senate, conservative Republican Jeff Sessions , to become the next U.S. attorney general, triggering an outcry from civil rights groups as well as some conservatives outside Congress who are uneasy about Sessions' positions.
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Publish Date:19/November/2016 | 05:28

Pro-business Sessions will not go easy on corporate crime: lawyers

EghtesadOnline: Jeff Sessions may be known as a pro-business conservative but as U.S. attorney general he is unlikely to shy away from indicting big companies and individuals for serious white-collar crimes, legal experts said, citing his record as a lawmaker.
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Publish Date:19/November/2016 | 05:26

Trump Say American Public ‘Deserves’ Clinton Investigation

EghtesadOnline: The nation's chief law enforcement officer found himself in a familiar spot Friday: belittled by the president, pressured to investigate political opponents and sucked back into the center of the storm around the investigation into the Trump administration's campaign ties to Russia.
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Publish Date:04/November/2017 | 24:14

Sessions Calls Notion He Colluded With Russia a 'Detestable Lie'

EghtesadOnline: Attorney General Jeff Sessions said he never spoke with Russian officials concerning “any type of interference” with the 2016 presidential campaign and called any suggestion he colluded with Russia during the election an “appalling and detestable lie.”
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Publish Date:14/June/2017 | 06:19

Trump Slams ‘Cowardly’ Comey as Sessions Offers to Testify

EghtesadOnline: President Donald Trump called James Comey “cowardly,” days after the fired FBI director’s testimony to a Senate committee and as Attorney General Jeff Sessions offered to speak to the same panel to answer questions about alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
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Publish Date:12/June/2017 | 04:20

Sessions says he will discuss Comey with Senate panel

EghtesadOnline: U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions said in a letter on Saturday that he will appear before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday to address matters former FBI Director James Comey brought up this week in testimony to the same panel.
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Publish Date:11/June/2017 | 24:34

Sessions Has Suggested Resigning as Tensions Grow With Trump

EghtesadOnline: U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions had suggested in the past several weeks he might resign amid a widening rift with President Donald Trump, according to a person familiar with the matter.
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Publish Date:07/June/2017 | 05:44

Sessions to respond in writing to questions over Russia contacts: DOJ

EghtesadOnline: U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions will reply in writing to Senate Democrats' questions about his meetings with Russia's ambassador last year, the Justice Department said on Friday after a top Republican denied Democrats' request for a public hearing.
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Publish Date:04/March/2017 | 05:10