much going on. of course, democrats are going to be as goodlatte said russia, russia, russia. republicans will want to talk about uranium one, the trump dossier, the possible special counsel that jeff sessions may now appoint to cover hillary clinton matters. so there is going to be fire from both sides here. there is. what i was just saying was i think there are legitimate outstanding questions about uranium one. it is also important to be very careful when you have a president who has been agitating consistently for a department of justice investigation into his political opponent not to overstep. that gets into dangerous territory pretty quickly. sandra: it sounds like chairman goodlatte is taking over now and he will make introductory remarks. we ll hear from several introductory remarks and jeff sessions followed by questions and answers. let s listen in now. good morning. today we welcome attorney general jeff sessions. the judiciary committee annual
up, christopher steele. byron york writes this morning. the first question he would be asking in that room is did the f.b.i./d. o.j. pay christopher steele in connection with the trump dossier. will that come up? it certainly very well could come up and again all of these are matters that, if the special counsel, mr. mueller, is not specifically looking into that, should be examined as part of an examination of how the f.b.i. conducted itself last year in the midst of a very important presidential campaign. sandra: important to point out this is a routine hearing for the attorney general but your expectations it might take a turn this morning when that begins less than 20 minutes from now, right? a general oversight hearing. that generally means that lots of questions on lots of subjects will come up. and in addition to the ones i ve just mentioned here today. it will be a very interesting
a verdict yesterday. david lee miller is live from the u.s. district court in newark, new jersey. about an hour ago senator menendez arrived at court for day 36 of his bribery trial and brushed aside reporters questions as he entered the building. yesterday the jury sent the judge a note. it said we cannot reach a unanimous decision on any of the charges. the judge sent the jury home early, advised them to get a good meal and good night s sleep to continue the deliberations this morning. what is significant here is that an alternate juror was placed on the panel yesterday morning to replace a juror excused in order to go on a long-planned vacation. the new jury only deliberated about three hours before telling the judge they could not reach a unanimous decision. that excused juror before jetting off on vacation spoke to reporters. she said she felt menendez was innocent of all charges and that she was being coerced by
about that possibly arranging that meeting between donald trump and the russian president vladimir putin. in what capacity do you think that will get covered this morning? that again will be up to the attorney general. i m sure there will be questions asked and i can t speak for the attorney general. i m sure he is very capable of speaking for himself in terms of what he knows and as you know with regard to the investigation of all this, he has recused himself and then following that the deputy attorney general appointed a special counsel which we have felt was not necessary but once the decision was made to do that, we felt that it was appropriate that the special counsel, mr. mueller, have an opportunity to do this investigation in a manner that was not interfered with by political influence. sandra: we already touched on uranium one. that is going to be a big point of questioning from republicans as well as the trump dossier. another name that might come
3rd, pocahontas just stated that the democrats led by the legendary crooked hillary clinton rigged the primaries. let s go to the f.b.i. and justice department. i believe he is referring to senator elizabeth warren in that last one. when richard nixon spoke about us that way, at least he had the courtesy to do it behind closed doors. mr. attorney general, a few questions for you, yes or no, please. in a functioning democracy, is it common for the leader of the country to order the criminal justice system to retaliate against his political opponents? is that the question?