Jeff Sessions
U.S. attorney General Jeff sessions said that he had not discussed with the Russian party campaign Donald trump, and has also recused himself in the investigation related to this issue. As reported by Reuters, sessions said Thursday, March 2, during a special press conference.
“I want to state very clearly that I never had meetings with the Russians or brokers regarding the [election] campaign of trump,” he said, noting that he didn’t give the Russian side any data.
According to and Roman sessions, at the meetings with Russian Ambassador Sergei Kislyak, who passed on the initiative of the latter, the issues of terrorism and the conflict in Ukraine. However, he added he did not remember, did Kislyak on political topics.
The attorney General also said that voluntarily refuses to participate in the investigation of the alleged Russian interference in presidential elections in the United States. “I take rejection on matters relating to the campaign of trump,” he said.
Earlier on March 2, U.S. President Donald trump said that “fully” trusts Jeff Seshns. At the same time, he noted that he was not aware of the contacts of the attorney General with the Russian Ambassador.
On March 1, the Washington Post posted the material in which it was alleged that the sessions held two meetings with the Russian Ambassador several months before the US presidential elections, which took place in November 2016. In January, at the hearings in the Senate about his approval to the post of Prosecutor General sessions did not mention it.
Democratic leaders in the U.S. Congress called Jeff and Roman sessions to resign. The official representative of Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova called approval of the media about the relationship of U.S. attorney General with the Russian Ambassador “media DNA”.