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Attorney General Jeff Sessions is facing pressure to recuse himself from his new job, after reports reveal he spoke with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak twice last year. Some of his former colleagues, even Republican ones, are claiming he misled the Senate Judiciary Committee at his confirmation hearing in January when the committee asked him about his contact with Russian officials. Yet, the question was specifically related to whether he spoke with Russia about the 2016 presidential campaign. Sessions insists he did not.
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), as an indirect defense of Sessions’ talks with Russia, revealed on CNN that he himself has met with the Russian ambassador with a group of other senators.
“Yes, that happens,” he said. “We meet with all the ambassadors or try to anyway to build relationships.”
It’s not unusual, he said.
Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) was not so forthcoming. On Twitter on Thursday, she claimed she has never spoken with Russian officials. A little bit of digging on her Twitter account called her bluff.
h/t Cakes
Deep state is going to find that it’s an inch deep and a mile wide, and most of it will evaporate in the sunlight. The sooner the three actual branches of government realize that the deep state threatens them all, the better. Joe Manchin gets it now.
My question is how do you build relationships without meeting with people?
Sessions has recused himself after meeting with his staff and considering that it was best for the country.
Now watch the demorats. “See? He must be guilty of something. He recused himself.”
What bullshit!
I met with the ambassador too.
Russia is playing both sides. They’re meddling and to them it doesn’t matter which political party they fu@k with.
Manchin is facing re-election in 2018, in a state which voted deep Red last November.
Why didn’t he just say they were discussing global warming and healthcare for the Russian masses……based on obamacare principles. They’d have to stfu.
Thanks for being honest Joe.
Are you sure you are a democrat?
Joe Manchin is the biggest whore in Congress since Lindsey Graham
what’s that you say Joe? … the deciding vote for ObamaCare? … thanks, may I have another?
he’ll be caucusing w/ McShitstain & Miss Lindsey in no time … I loath people like him … welcome to the Republican Party … another Mr. Jellyspine
West Virginia’s new motto: Our politicians a little better than Maryland’s … not much though