Kamala Harris Interrupted Again This Time While Pressing Sessions
Jeff Sessions to Kamala Harris: Existence Rushed 'Makes Me Nervous'
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California Sen. Kamala Harris questions Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
She didn't get whatever answers out of him, but Sen. Kamala Harris notched another political win at Tuesday's Senate Intelligence Committee hearing when she pushed and pushed confronting Chaser General Jeff Sessions' refusal to answer questions.
Harris, a quondam commune chaser and California chaser full general, was in prosecutorial mode Tuesday, pressing against Sessions' repeated statements that he couldn't recall certain facts and conversations and would non talk over conversations he's had with President Trump.
California'due south junior senator was over again among the last to enquire questions at the hearing, only managed to delight her fans and burnish her reputation as a Trump critic with one of the more entertaining exchanges of the day.
Harris was asking Sessions whether he had any conversations during final year'southward presidential entrada with whatsoever Russians that he has not previously disclosed. She and Sessions repeatedly talked over 1 some other equally he tried to requite long, meandering answers to what she wanted to be yes-or-no questions. (Each senator had but 5 minutes to grill the attorney full general.)
Finally, Sessions told Harris he wanted to qualify his answer with -- you guessed it -- statements that he may not think everything that took place final year.
"If yous don't let me qualify it you will accuse me of lying, so I need to be correct as best I can," Sessions said.
"I do desire you to be honest," Harris said.
"I am not able to be rushed this fast, it makes me nervous," Sessions responded.
And Twitter exploded:
It was the second time in recent weeks that Harris delighted her base at a hearing. In May, she made headlines later she was cut off past Intelligence Committee chairman Sen. Richard Burr, R-North Carolina, equally she questioned Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who is No. two behind Sessions at the Justice Department.
Harris over again was interrupted today, but this time past Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain, an ex-officio fellow member of the Intelligence Committee who got annoyed at the cease of Harris' 5 minutes that she kept interrupting Sessions. At that bespeak, Harris was grilling Sessions on which authorities policy he kept invoking when he refused to discuss conversations he's had with Trump -- and whether he actually read the policy every bit he prepared for testimony.
With that and other questions, Harris seemed to be laying the groundwork to request written documents from the Justice Department and White Firm.
Merely Harris wasn't the only one confused well-nigh Sessions' refusal to hash out his interactions with the president, even though he wouldn't claim executive privilege. Sessions said at one point that he was but reserving the president'southward right to claim privilege later.
California's senior senator, Dianne Feinstein, too pressed Sessions on the issue before in the hearing. She was trying to effigy out why Sessions wrote a memo recommending the termination of former FBI Director James Comey. The White House initially cited that letter to justify his firing, but the president later admitted that he would have fired Comey with or without Sessions' alphabetic character.
"I am puzzled about that recommendation. The determination had been fabricated -- what was the need to write that recommendation?" Feinstein asked.
Final week, she made news questioning Comey.
Sessions responded that he had previously expressed his opinion to the president and was asked to put it in writing. Feinstein seemed miffed simply resigned past his refusal to answer most of her questions.
Feinstein and Harris were the only California lawmakers in the room, but Democratic Rep. Ted Lieu, who'due south fabricated headlines for his pull-no-punches Twitter feed, was clearly watching.
Source: https://www.kqed.org/news/11508303/jeff-sessions-to-kamala-harris-being-rushed-makes-me-nervous
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