U.S. attorney general recuses self from Trump campaign probes

Mr Peskov argued it was normal for an ambassador to meet with officials and politicians, adding that “the more such meetings an ambassador has, the more efficient his work is”. “Ever.” As a point of fact, that turned out to be false. Reporter: “When were you aware that he spoke to the calls-for-probe-into-schumer-over-old-putin-photo-6458/”>Russian ambassador?“.

Donald Trump’s administration has been hit by revelations two more of its officials met with Russians before the US President was sworn in.

The Trump administration has been hit by a fresh storm over dealings with Moscow after attorney general Jeff Sessions was found to have not disclosed his contacts with the Russian ambassador to the USA in the thick of the race for the White House in 2016 in which he was a top adviser to the Republican nominee, Donald Trump.

Trump left WH in a fury on Friday, fuming about Sessions’s recusal and telling aides that Sessions shouldn’t have recused himself. Stephen Miller, one of Sessions’ top policy advisers, would become a top Trump adviser.

The previously undisclosed meeting fed mounting calls for Sessions to recuse himself from oversight of Justice Department and Federal Bureau of Investigation probes into the alleged Russian meddling and contacts with Trump campaign advisers.

For the “Morning Joe” team, the only thing more freakish than Jeff Sessions’ press conference Thursday recusing himself from an ongoing White House investigation was its timing.

Sessions denies any wrongdoing in his dealings with Russian officials, saying that he attended those meetings in his capacity as a senior member of the Senate Armed Services Committee.

Sessions “has to be brought back to the Judiciary committee to answer the questions that he cut off”, Connecticut Sen.

“The timing certainly smells”, Klobuchar said.

Jan 15, 2017: Mike Pence says that Mike Flynn did not talk sanctions on his phone call with the Russian ambassador. Joseph McCarthy’s hunt in the 1950s for communist traitors inside the US government. Flynn resigned after it came to light he lied about having discussed USA sanctions against Russian Federation with the ambassador before Donald Trump took office.

But Politico unearthed a 2010 photo from a meeting of congressional lawmakers with then-Russian President Dmitriy Medvedev, at which both Pelosi and Kislyak were present.

Shortly after 10:30 a.m., McCaskill posted two tweets that acknowledged her meeting with Kislyak.

Sessions quit an upcoming probe into the White House’s relationship with Russian officials Thursday after the former senator himself was accused of lying about meeting the Russian ambassador during his Senate confirmation hearing.

Sessions has denied that he misled the senators, and we will deal with that in a separate story. “This practice has never been disputed”, Mr. Lavrov said. That’s clearly false, and she can not blame the 140-character limit on Twitter.

But Mr Sessions said that was not necessary.