Posted on 03/08/2017 6:42:58 PM PST by Angels27
Sen. Al. Franken tells CNN's Jake Tapper he thinks Attorney General Jeff Sessions committed perjury when he failed to mention to him his contacts with the Russian ambassador during his confirmation hearings.
JAKE TAPPER, CNN 'THE LEAD' HOST: So, yesterday, Attorney General Sessions sent a letter defending what he told you during his confirmation hearing. Just to bring our viewers back to what this is about, your question talked about the story CNN broke at that moment about whether there may have been contacts between Trump campaign advisors and Russians known to U.S. intelligence and whether U.S. intelligence had been monitoring it.
Here is the end of your question with then-senator, now Attorney General Sessions.
SENATOR AL FRANKEN: If there is any evidence that anyone affiliated with the Trump campaign communicated with the Russian government in the course of this campaign, what will you do?
JEFF SESSIONS, ATTORNEY GENERAL: Senator Franken, I'm not aware of any of those activities. I have been called a surrogate at a time or two in that campaign, and I didn't -- did not have communications with the Russians. And I'm unable to comment on.
TAPPER: Since then, it came out that he had actually met with the Russian ambassador twice although he said he did so in his capacity as a senator and not a campaign surrogate. President Trump even went on to say that, Sessions, quote, "could have stated his response more accurately." Sessions yesterday amended his remarks to the committee saying that his answer was correct and that he, quote, "did not mention communications he had with the Russian ambassador over the years because the question did not ask about them."
What's your response, sir?
FRANKEN: That's a ridiculous response. It's not a clarification at all.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
Al Franken committed perjury.
I saw Al Franken-berry circling Uranus looking for Klingons.
Total bullcrap, and I mean that sincerely having watched the question and answer. BTW the question was “what will you do?” if the CNN report is true (it wasn’t). It was NOT about Russian contacts.
True.But look at your own state.
You’ve got some real prizes representing your state,too.
Sessions volunteered that as a campaign surrogate he had not had “contacts”, and the question was about (sort of) continuous contacts as reported by CNN. Ridiculous that contacts as a US Senator with any Russian would then be perjury.
Methinks “man who finds secret ballots in trunk” speaketh bullshit.
Shove it, dummy.
Franken was paraphrasing a CNN report and apologizing that no one had seen the report yet, and asking if this is all true, then what will you do? A totally ridiculous question.
Shut up diaper boy!
Says the grifter that stole his Senate seat in MN.
So what Puppet Master told this moron to start calling Sessions a Liar? We could have been saying is two weeks ago if he had two brain cells to rub together.
The only one that needs to be committed is Franken.....to an insane asylum.
So? Apparently, Franken’s mother committed bestiality with a jackass.
perjury based on a convoluted rumor that the moron could barely dribble out of his mouth?...how can an you commit perjury based on something that never happened?. Not sure who’s uglier....Franken or Michael Moore.
Techies have ruined the state.
That movie scared the crap out of me when I watched it years ago. Should have been in theaters instead of made-for-TV.
I vote Franken. He resembles "The Joker". Michael could lose 300 lbs and almost look normal....
I can't look at this degenerate rump-clown with a straight face. And as much as it is unfair to generalize, the a-holes who voted for this guy deserve a special place in Hell.
Just press the RESET button Maybe?
I hate this guy on a level that is up there with Obama. thinking of Putting a picture of his face on my boxing bag.
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