Four key takeaways from Jeff Sessions’s memory-lapse-filled congressional hearing

The following article by Amber Phillips was posed on the Washington Post website November 14, 2017:

Attorney General Jeff Sessions raises his hand to be sworn in before the House Judiciary Committee. (Bill O’Leary/The Washington Post)

Meetings he had with the Russian ambassador during the campaign. Campaign-related conversations he had with the Russian ambassador. Shutting down campaign aide George Papadopoulos after Papadopoulos suggested then-candidate Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin get together.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions said he couldn’t remember any of these events — that is until the media or Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation remembered them for him.

That’s the key takeaway from Sessions’s hearing before the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday. What is typically a routine check-in between Congress and the head of the Justice Department got political real fast, largely because of Russia. Continue reading “Four key takeaways from Jeff Sessions’s memory-lapse-filled congressional hearing”