The following article by Ken Dilanian was posted on the NBC News website January 5, 2018:
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump’s counsel and multiple other White House officials tried to talk Attorney General Jeff Sessions out of recusing himself from the Russia investigation, a senior U.S. official told NBC News, amid reports the effort was orchestrated by Trump himself.
In the weeks before Sessions recused himself from the probe in March, White House Counsel Don McGahn and other White House officials called him and urged him not to disqualify himself from running the probe, the senior official said. Continue reading “Multiple Trump officials pressed Sessions not to recuse self from Russia probe”