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Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon had a heated exchange during Sessions’ Tuesday hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee after Wyden said Sessions was “stonewalling” in his answers.
The exchange centered on former FBI Director James Comey’s testimony last week that a previously undisclosed issue related to Sessions may have made his recusal from investigations concerning President Donald Trump’s campaign necessary.
Sessions recused himself on March 2 after reports emerged that he had twice met with the Russian ambassador to the US, Sergey Kislyak, during the election, contradicting his statements under oath in his Senate confirmation hearing that he did not have contacts with Russians during the campaign.
Reports have said Comey told the committee in a closed hearing last week that the undisclosed issue was a possible third meeting with Kislyak.
Earlier in the hearing on Tuesday, Sessions denied that assertion, saying he did not recall meeting with Kislyak at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, DC, where Trump gave a foreign-policy speech last year.
“Mr. Comey, perhaps he didn’t know, but I basically recused myself the first day I got into the office, because I never accessed files. I never learned the names of investigators. I never met with them. I never asked for any documentation,” Sessions said. “The documentation, what little I received, was mostly already in the media and was presented by the senior ethics public responsibility — professional responsibility attorney in the department.
“I made an honest and proper decision to recuse myself,” he added.
Wyden cut in, saying Sessions was “not answering the question.”
“Well, what is the question?” Sessions said.
“The question is: Mr. Comey said that there were matters with respect to the recusal that were problematic and he couldn’t talk about them,” Wyden said. “What are they?”
“Why don’t you tell me?” Sessions fired back. “There are none, Sen. Wyden. There are none. I can tell you that for absolute certainty.
“This is a secret innuendo being leaked out there about me, and I don’t appreciate it,” he said, criticizing the reports about the committee’s closed session with Comey.
Watch the exchange:
Eliza Relman contributed to this report.
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