Jeff Sessions
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Kremlin says unaware of U.S. Attorney General's meetings with Russian envoy
EghtesadOnline: Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Thursday he was unaware that U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions had met Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, but said such meetings…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…