Attorney General Jeff Sessions testified on Tuesday that he did not “recall” whether or not he had a third meeting with Russian Ambassador Sergei Kislyak, though he denied doing so earlier in his opening remarks before the Senate Intelligence Committee.
“Certainly, I can assure you, nothing improper, if I’d had a conversation with him, and it’s conceivable that occurred. I just don’t remember,” Sessions said. “I guess I could say that I possibly had a meeting, but I still do not recall it, and I did not in any way fail to record something in my testimony or in my subsequent letter intentionally false.”
In his opening remarks at the hearing, Sessions said he “did not have any private meetings” and could not “recall any conversations” with Russian officials at a Washington, D.C. hotel.
“I don’t remember anything you can’t prove happened, and if you can prove it, then I misspoke and didn’t intend to deceive you.”
“My previous statement is not a lie.”
“I swear”
Whatevs, Mr. Keebler. We know yer a rat.
Exactly what I predicted… A lot of “I don’t recall” and “I don’t know…”
Did everyone catch that when Rubio was asking about possible undercover Russians having conversations with him, Sessions admitted he had had THREE conversations with the Ambassabor before Rubio cut him off? This seems like he has fallen into a perjury trap.
I caught it too.
But alas the clueless Democrats did not pounce on it with a follow up question like:
“So you just committed perjury when you said you didn’t recall a third conversation before, right?”
Well, AG Sessions should have taken detailed notes as soon as possible after the meeting to describe in great detail his encounters with the Russian ambassador just in case those discussions were to come up at a later time. “Copious” was the word I was looking for.