Sessions told the House Judiciary Committee last year that "I pushed back" in 2016 when former Trump foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos proposed setting up a meeting between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. But Papadopoulos' attorney, in a court filing this month, said that Sessions "stated that the campaign should look into" a Putin-Trump meeting -- something that Papadopoulos himself reiterated in media interviews over the last few days. But Democrats, so far, are reticent about raising a fuss over the discrepancy -- even though they strongly oppose Sessions' tenure atop the Justice Department. Democrats say they want Sessions to remain in the job because he is recused from special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation, which Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is overseeing. A new attorney general could take the reins and potentially curtail the Mueller probe -- or deny Mueller's report on the probe from ever being released to the public, they fear.

Source: CNN September 10, 2018 16:30 UTC