Jeff Sessions US Attorney denies meetings with Russian ambassador

Donald Trump's narrower circle of collaborators has been hit again by his ties to Russia. This time it is the Attorney General - a charge that would be equivalent in Spain to the Minister of Justice - Jeff Sessions, who today had to refuse any investigation relating to the 2016 election campaign. Sessions had to make that announcement after The Washington Post revealed it had lied under oath to the Senate Jan. 10, when Democratic Sen. Al Franken asked if it had had any contact with Moscow during the campaign. "I had no communication with the Russians," said the attorney general. The attorney general was lying. As the 'Post' unveiled today, Sessions had met at least twice with the Russian ambassador in Washington, Sergey Kislyak. One, in July; The other in September. On that second occasion, the meeting was, directly, in the office of Sessions in the Senate. Later it was learned that on September 13 Session also talked on the phone with Kislyak. Sessions, who was the first senator to support Donald Trump and is, along with his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and his political adviser, Steve Bannon, his closest collaborator, was in those months one of the candidate's top foreign policy advisers Republican, and his name already sounded like more than probable member of the cabinet in an eventual Government of Trump. Then, after a similar question from Senator Patrick Leahy, put in writing, Sessions again replied, "No."

• 2017-03-03T14:25:01+00:00
• Duration: 11:40

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