Sessions interviewed by Mueller’s team

WASHINGTON : US attorney general Jeff Sessions has become the senior-most serving member of the Trump administration to be interviewed by investigators probing Russian interference in the 2016 election and alleged collusion by the president’s campaign team.

Sessions was interviewed last week for several hours by members of the investigative team led by special counsel Robert Mueller. This is the first known instance of a member of the Trump cabinet being interviewed by the team.

After initially claiming during his confirmation hearing that he did not any contacts with Russians, Sessions later acknowledged two contacts with erstwhile Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak. He has since recused himself from the probe.

Sessions was also party to the firing of FBI director James

SESSIONS SERVED AS AN ADVISOR TO DONALD TRUMP’S CAMPAIGN BEFORE HE WAS APPOINTED AS THE TOP U.S. LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL .

Comey, who had claimed to be under pressure from Trump to go easy on former national security adviser Michael Flynn, who was sacked for lying about his Russia contacts.

Flynn has since pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about those contacts and is cooperating with investigators under a plea agreement, as is George Papadopoulos, a Trump campaign aide. Paul Manafort and Rick Gates, two other members of the campaign, have been arrested and face trial. HTC