one of the guys (one of the leaders of the senate committee) has some humor, constantly referring to all the meetings going on regarding the russians as sessions. how many sessions did jeff sessions have with the russians? lol

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On NPR they were calling Sessions' excuse "nonprivilege privilege." I kind of like that.

Sessions might not be compromised by Russia but basically he had little contact with any ambassadors previous to 2016, he hops on the Trump train, and suddenly has had multiple contacts with the Russian ambassador.

Did you guys just expect him to go up there and admit a bunch of stuff that makes him look bad and are crimes?

The shock itt seems a little lol

My wife just pointed out something interesting. One of the repubs said something about Holder claiming executive privilege and that the republicans went to the courts and were able to get them to say that the information wasn't privileged.

Doesn't that indicate precedence?

McCain was trying to make this point in his questioning today but due to old man mumbly incoherence, I'm guessing most didn't understand. He was basically trying to say in all our years on the Armed Services Committee you never seemed to care about Russia or diplomats and now you're claiming it's common to meet a bunch of foreign diplomats but that's not the Jeff Sessions I knew. Unfortunately it came out more gibbering than that.

Guess he could have called him a good peach basket pusher instead.

My ageism comments from the other day still stand. Nobody should be able to get elected after the 61st birthday and every office should have a maximum of two terms.

Things nobody every thought for $2000, Alex.

It does not "indicate precedence" but it's likely precedential, perhaps binding, depending on the facts.

I wonder if someone could seach the congressional record and find all the times sessions praised Comey. By all accounts fbi is in great shape and comey was highly regarded. One mistake that happens to get Trump elected is a firable offense to Trump/sessions. Why not ask sessions if trump asked him for loyalty? Did sessions or other gop members comment in debate why they made fbi head's term 10 years? Many of these lawyers in congress are/were bad lawyers.

Sessions, "I was quite the roundball player myself before they opened it up to the coloreds." McConnell, "I did cheerleading."

I think age cap should be an issue. They've made retirement mandatory in the courts at like 70 (except SCt), but you can keep judging if you want with a reduced load instead of retiring (same pay for each choice).

https://twitter.com/Evan_McMullin/st...55974845825024


https://twitter.com/Evan_McMullin/st...58031950700544

I'm guessing the precedent set wasn't that executive privilege can never be used by an AG.

Sessions said that executive privilege can only be invoked by the President.

https://twitter.com/ronwyden/status/874737345509163009

It was the same two guys who interrupted her during the Comey hearing, Burr and McCain.

Sessions seems like a moron though.

The previous interruption came when she was questioning Rosenstein, not Comey. Sorry.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/...b0d318548591d9

Yeah, I heard that too and was like, wtf point are you trying to make? If his point was you hypocritical Democrats did this first and now you think we can't do it too, uh, isn't it just as hypocritical for the Republicans to now be like oh, you don't want to answer any questions just because you don't feel like it? No big deal Mr. General

mccain isnt even a member of the committee, hes regarded as a "guest" and should behave like one.

einbert had the same take but I think it's not quite correct. The Senate rules are obviously esoteric and largely a bunch of mumbo jumbo customs anyway so there's no reason to be too precious about them. But the Ex Officio members (which is what McCain, Reed are) -- they are allowed to do anything on the committee except vote, and "interrupting each other" isn't really a documented privilege for either full members or Ex Officio members.

Basically, it's one of the classic over-fitting/under-fitting scenarios. Ex Officio members can be whiny and bicker with the full members in committee hearings but it's not really clear trying to man-hush the black lady is a documented franchise enjoyed by anyone and it's a dick move in any context. We'd all still be complaining if it was Rubio or Cotton so I don't see what McCain's member status really matters.

So, can we estimate the number of times Sessions perjured himself yesterday? How many of those will be charged, 0? Are we expecting Mueller to own him or grand jury subpoena him soon?

Before this hearing, I honestly wasn't sure if Sesh was a guilty **** or just a racist ****. Turns out he's both; it's obvious that Sessions is massively compromised. He may not personally be responsible for any criminal activities (I'd put that at 70% he is) but it's very close to 100% that he knows too much.

Get him, Mueller!