Nancy Pelosi Calls On Jeff Sessions To Resign
During an appearance on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi again called for Attorney General Jeff Sessions to resign after reports emerged yesterday that he had a third undisclosed meeting with the Russian ambassador.
“When you talk about all of these things, just remember there’s something strange that isn’t connecting,” Pelosi said.
“Now I can’t…confirm or deny the issue of the third meeting. But I did say on March 2 that he should resign,” she continued. “Sessions should resign as attorney general.”
Pelosi’s renewed call for Sessions to resign comes one day after former FBI Director James Comey testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee saying that the FBI had information that made clear Sessions would need to recuse himself from the Russia investigation.
“Our judgment, as I recall, was that he was very close to and inevitably going to recuse himself for a variety of reasons,” Comey told lawmakers. “We also were aware of facts that I can’t discuss in an open setting that would make his continued engagement in a Russia-related investigation problematic.”
It was reported by NBC News Thursday that in the closed-door session Comey told Senators that Sessions met a third time with the Russian ambassador at a Trump campaign event at the Mayflower.
Sessions was forced to recuse himself in February when it was revealed that he had lied under oath during his Senate confirmation hearing about meetings with the Russians.
Watch the full interview here:
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