Attorney General Jeff Sessions has made comments in the past about perjury, access to government officials and special prosecutors. Sessions served as a senator for two decades, and he was an outspoken surrogate for Trump on the campaign trail. A spokeswoman for Sessions said there was “absolutely nothing misleading” about his answer, because he was discussing contacts between Russia and the Trump campaign, not meetings Sessions had in his role as a senator. They wouldn’t be asking for access for nothing.”Throughout the campaign, Sessions was critical of the Clinton Foundation’s dealings with foreign donors, suggesting essentially that donors were able to buy access to Hillary Clinton. That is important because Sessions himself is now under pressure to change his own testimony to Congress.

Source: Washington Post March 02, 2017 18:07 UTC