Sessions needs to testify before panel, Franken says
Sen. Al Franken, D-minn., wants Attorney General Jeff Sessions to appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee to answer questions about a Washington Post report that he might have discussed campaignrelated matters with Russia’s ambassador to Washington last year.
Franken, appearing on CNN’S “State of the Union” on Sunday, said he thinks Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles E. Grassley, R-iowa, also wants Sessions to testify on the matter.
The Post reported Friday that Ambassador Sergey Kislyak told his higher-ups in Moscow that he discussed the campaign and Russian policy priorities with Sessions during the 2016 presidential race, despite public assertions to the contrary by the attorney general. Kislyak’s accounts of the conversations were intercepted by U.S. intelligence agencies.
The Russian Embassy in Washington announced on Twitter that Kislyak’s tenure ended Saturday, the Associated Press reported.