counsel, and you fear now just considering it, what is it going to take to get a special counse counsel? we know that former fbi director james comey misled the american people in the summer of 2016 when he called the clinton investigation a matter. obviously an investigation. we know fbi director connie was drafting and exoneration letter before the investigation was complete. we know loretta lynch one day before the benghazi report came out five days before secretary clinton was scheduled to be interviewed by the fbi met with former president bill clinton on the tarmac in phoenix. we know after that meeting when he was corresponding with public relations people, he was using the name elizabeth carlisle. as i ve said before, seems to me you just talking golf and grandkids, you can use your real name. we know that mr. comey publicize the investigation and we know he made the final decision on whether prosecutor or not. and then when he gets fired, he
your assigns regarding that at&t/time warner acquisition? first, i would say that i don t accept and cannot accept the accuracy of that news report. we have a professional your department has not told time warner and at&t they must shed turner broadcasting? our work the report? our work is professional. they do meet that is a false report or true report? i just would tell you, i don t think it s i m able to accept as accurate a news report. i get you. that has come out on that. on october 18th, when testifying before the senate judiciary committee, senator sass asked you if the department had taken adequate action to prevent election meddling in the future. you stated there was no review
meeting with the ambassador? i do not. in her testimony before the senate in may, former acting attorney general sally yates testified that one week into the trump administration, she notified the administration that mr. flynn had lied to vice president pence about discussing sanctions with ambassador kislyak as part of the transition team and the president s pick for attorney general, in january, were you notified when the administration was notified of mr. flynn s lie and his susceptibility to russian black male? i don t believe so. we now know that you were aware of the efforts of carter paige and george papadopoulos to meet and establish communication with the russian government. that s not necessarily so, from what mr. carter paige says, and i don t recall that.
his previous testimony remains truthful. sterilize or there was doing him a solid and they had a pro-family exchange where he was saying it s completely normal not to remember this but in the course of work as a senator, particularly on an intelligence or foreign affairs committee, lots of interactions with foreign officials that you wouldn t necessarily remember. melissa: in particular with regards to papadopoulos what he said was if i had recalled that encounter at the moment, i would ve told you that i pushed back on him and told him he does not represent the campaign, he does not represent anyone in this meeting. he said that my answer, i would ve been very forthright because what i did in that exchange was tell him no. so how did you think that playe played? i think that played well. it wasn t only jeff sessions who told papadopoulos no, it was even paul manafort who has now been indicted for some of his inappropriate contact with foreign officials and his lack of disclosure a
about the dossier. shortly after that, the fact that meeting took place in the subject of the meeting was the dossier was leaked to cnn. do you know who it said information? i do not. are you investigating who leaked that information? that would be a matter within the investigatory powers of the special counsel. you have a number of investigation going on regarding leaks. is that likely one of those that you are investigating? go i am not able to reveal the existence of investigations or not. mr. attorney general, i appreciate your service in the senate, i appreciate your service in the justice department. frankly, i appreciate yesterday s letter saying you are considering appointing a special counsel. that you sent to us. but my concern is, we sent you a letter three and half months ago asking for a second special