Thursday on MSNBC’s “Hardball,” Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) said Attorney General Jeff Sessions should come back to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee about a March 2016 meeting with candidate Donald Trump and advisers at which a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin was proposed.
Franken said, “He has contradicted himself so many times in the last — since January that it really is hard to believe that he’s been telling the truth at any one point.”
He added, “He denied contact with Russia in his confirmation hearing, and he met with Kislyak three times, he met with the ambassador three times, so that wasn’t true. So then he changed it. He said I didn’t meet with any Russians to discuss the campaign. Then it turned out that he had kind of talked about some campaign issues with Kislyak at the Mayflower Hotel and then he changed it to, I didn’t meet with Russians to talk about interference with the campaign. So he’s been moving the goalpost. This is very, very hinky, And he needs to testify and needs to answer my letter, as well.”
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