Democrats, 202 7488000, independence, 202 7488002. You can also meet us on facebook, and tweet us as well. We want to hear your thoughts. What did you watch, what did you think, and what grade would you give the attorney general . Will show you some of the wrapups and various news websites and papers this morning , and some of the key moments from the hearing. First from a news website from across the political spectrum, starting on the conservative side of the aisle, here is the headline from breitbart. Com i echo chamber senators ask Jeff Sessions repeated questions. Websites from the liberal side of the aisle, Huffington Post this morning with the headline session launches team trumps russia and counteroffensive. The daily beast refers to sessions as dr. No in their headline, and one more from slate. Com this morning. Sessions sticks to his fiction withe headline they went this morning. We would like to hear your thoughts. What do you think the key moments were deco thomas is in georgia, the democrat line. Good morning. Good morning. Sessions got up there to stand and alluded all the questions they asked him. I think they should have some i think therena, should be some consequence for lying on the stand. They should send him to court for that, because he has lied, lied, and lied. Line,from the republican monica is waiting in delaware. Good morning. Caller good morning. How are you this morning . Host doing well, go ahead. Caller i have watched this sessions very carefully. I watched it live yesterday, i watched it on cspan last night, and i watched it again this morning. On how mr. Impressed sessions answered all the questions. I think you did a marvelous job. Marvelous job. He was very forthright forthcoming with what he was allowed to discuss. I was a little discard concerned at the difficulties askingme senators were some questions. He was put under a spotlight that i did not think he needed to be under, some pressure that was not necessary. But other than that i think it went very well, im very impressed with him. All in all, he did a good job. And from our independent one, jack is in providence, rhode island. Caller good morning, thank you for taking my call. Thatually believe that they already know already are is no collusion. That was said to joe stalin find me the man and i will find you the crime. What they are attempting to do is create an structure and obstructed justice charge. What happened jack other never inspected trump to win. This is a shock to the system and they want him out. We will see what happens, but out of there. The elites controlling this country want him out. How do you define host how do you define the elites, jack . Caller they are located in the d. C. Area, in manhattan, and in parts of los angeles. Antisemi, butan they are primarily, most of them, leftwing jews. Financially very wealthy, controlling wall street, controlling hollywood. And they control the banking here in the United States. But you have to give them credit. They did it. Host so you think religion has a role to play in whether some someone is a leader not . On elite or not . Caller some jewish people consider themselves religious, but a lot of them do not consider the religious. They consider themselves just secular in their ways. We will say like for example, alan berkowitz. He is a secular man. Host we will try to wrap up the sessions testimony yesterday. Were talking to our viewers about that. We want to hear your thoughts on twitter as well. Caller Jeff Sessions a treat this morning, sessions testimony confirms james comey. Try is running out for trump. Time is running out for trump. We will get your responses and here you thought about it. Show you some of the key moments and one of them came from jeff testimony,early talking about the russian connection and his thoughts on some of the early charges made against him. Let me state this clearly i have never met with or had any conversation with any russians or any foreign officials concerning any type of interference with any campaigns or elections in the United States. Further, i have no knowledge of any such conversations by anyone connected to the trump campaign. I was your colleague in this body for 20 years, at least some of you. Id the suggestion that dissipated in any collusion, that i was aware of any collusion with the russian ,overnment to hurt this country which i have served with honor to undermine or the integrity of our democratic process is an appalling and detestable live lie. Host if you missed any of the testimony, you can go back and watch us on cspan. Org. What grade would you give the attorney general . 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It is President Trump birthday, and i would like to sing to him. Happy birthday to you happy birthday to you , president host a birthday shout it for the president , who turns 71 today. Im a former oregonian, and i would give Jeff Sessions and a minus. He gave ron wyden his hat, and he gave him pretty hurt him he did well. But wyden has been there forever, blooming our. We had him on the show a couple of weeks ago. He has been in Congress Since the 80s. A lot of these guys have worked with sessions for years and years, and how they could possibly think that he would collude with the russians is beyond me. They have moved beyond the collusion thing now and are moving into the obstruction of jeffreything, and gundlach made an interesting comment during his podcast this was simply an attempt to run up the clock for trump. Hope this thing will end soon, and i think it will hurt the in thets, quite frankly, 2018 election. People are sick of it. They want solutions to their own problems and not baseless investigations. Mentionfore you go, you new followed ron wyden when you were living in organ. What do you think of him in his work in this investigation and some of the other Panel Members as well . Who has asked the best questions here . Who has done a good job in their oversight response abilities . Caller i would say that cotton senator cotton. He kind of compares this to a jason bourne movie. You have this many people keeping this under wraps with no proof, no dates, no people, it amazing. You would have to be i do not know how people fall for it, quite frankly. I want no dates, times, people, i want to know the dates, times, people, what was said. Where is the crime . Ive an evenhanded person, but i cannot see where this is. A call from west virginia, mentioning senator tom cotton from arkansas. Here are some of his exchange with the attorney general. A civil question that should be asked is that did donald trump or any of his associates in the campaign collude with russia in the hacking of emails and releasing them to the public act of that is where we started six months ago. We have heard from six of the eight democrats on this committee and to my knowledge, not a single one of them asked that question. They have gone down lots of other rabbit trails but none of them have answered that question asked that question. Donald trump was assured by james comey three times that he was not under investigation. Maybe it is because multiple democrats on this committee has seen no evidence us far after six months of our investigation and 11 months of an fbi investigation of any collusion. What do we think happened at the mayflower . Mr. Sessions, are you familiar with what spies call tradecraft . A little bit. Involves things like covert communications, dead drops, and brush passes, right . That is part of it . Do you like spy fiction . Like ignatius . Do like jason bourne or bond movies . No. Have you ever heard of it in an instance to where there was collusion in an open setting with hundreds of people to pull off the greatest caper in the history of espionage. Thank you for saying that. It is through the looking glass. What is this . I explained how in good faith, i said i had not met with russians because they were suggesting that i, as a surrogate, had been meeting with russians. Now the next thing you know, i am accused of some reception, plotting some sort of influence americanfor the election. It is beyond my capabilities to understand. Appreciate, mr. Chairman, the opportunity at least to be able to say publicly i did not participate in that and know nothing about it. Some more headlines from todays papers. Heres the Washington Times in d. C. Sessions claims russia innuendo to the front page of usa today. And from the front page of the New York Times, sessions denied collude collusion, imploring it was a detestable live. Go ahead. Caller it is all politics, and the more down and dirty it gets, the more the media loves it. There is no russian collusion. I think it is a witchhunts. Entertaining, but Jeff Sessions seems like an awfully nice man, and i hope they do not really get to them. I hope they do not destroy him because that is what they are out to do. That is my comment, thank you. Florida onville jacksonville, florida, line for democrats. Caller thank you for cspan. I would give sessions the d for a d for his answers, because anything and cap stonewalling. That is my opinion. Host the d that you would give congressman by Ben Ray Lujan of new mexico. We will show you some more tweets by members of congress, including elizabeth warren. The ag must be truthful and up hold the law. Sessions cannot continue to serve. He should resign. And this tweet from yesterday. Strong testimony today by the attorney general. So far, no evidence of russia collusion in the trump campaign. What do you think, brooklyn new what do you think . Brooklyn, new york, line for independence. Caller i think it is interesting that sessions is such a poor supervisor. I am former military and i had people under me, and if i do not like how they are doing your jobs, i inform them. When they do a great job, we inform them. He needse was i think to go to school to find out how to be a supervisor. If you does this for the fbi, what about all the other agencies where he is in charge of go the second item was i found it fascinating of . The second item i was his that he was not more just it in the hacking. That would be one of the topnotch items to ensure that future elections are not hacked or how we can go about informing on companys companies, how to prevent a hack . I think he got about a b. Gradeand how would you the senators asking the questions . Who got the best one . I think senator burr. He did really well. Remarks, andosing i thought he summed it up well. Host senator burr, the chairman of the Senate Intelligence committee has been leading this program. Brandon, florida, line for republicans. Caller how are you . Host doing well. Caller i think Jeff Sessions, to me, personally, got a d. He could have said more. It allowed more room for the opposition to attack him more, left a lot of questions open. As far as trump, people seem to forget that he is a known lobbyist for years, since the 1980s, playing both sides of the field. Im surprised myself that trump is not more of a progressive than what he is. He has played both sides of the field for so long. Host one of our earlier colors mentioned this exchange between oregon senator juan wyden, a oregon senator ron wyden, a democrat, and the attorney general. Respectfully, you are not answering the question. What is the question . Mr. Comey said there were matters perspective to the recusal that were problematic, and he could not talk about them. What are they . Why do you not why dont you tell me . There are none, senator wyden. There are none. I can tell you that for absolute certainty. Is our secret innuendo being weak doubt there about me, and i do not appreciate it leaked out there about me, and i do not appreciate. Ive tried to give my best truthful answers to the committee that i have appeared before, and people are suggesting through and you i know that i am not honest about matters, and i have tried to be honest. My time is short. Have major point that you you have made it your point that you believe comey is engaging innuendo. You said it was problematic it was problematic you said it was problematic and i asked you what was problematic about it . Host well be talking about this for most of our program today. You can call in. Republicans, 202 7488001 democrats, 202 7488000. Ndependents, 202 7488002 our democrat line, good morning. [no audio] are you with us . Sean is in california, and independent. Caller how the going . What is your name . Host it is john. Whats going on . Caller to me, the article you read earlier, that headline you had . Anger, fewer of answers. It makes it sound like sessions is probably lying, because he did get mad about a lot of questions. There is a lot of anger. Caller anything up host anything else to add . Caller i was hoping you would respond. Host i want to hear from you and do not want to take time or it from the callers to do it. Our public in line, go ahead. Our republican line, go ahead. Caller thank you for taking my call. I thought sessions did a beautiful job, and he is a wonderful man, hardworking man, and very truthful. E need more people like him the whole thing is they want to take our president down and they are working on all of his committee. Listen, it is not going to happen. God put him there, nobody is going to take him down, so they need to get used to it and start working with him to get something done for the American People. There working trying to get jobs and get the health care, and the taxes, and a good job. Such hes only getting four hours of sleep a night, so they have to stop sometime. He is not going anywhere, so they need to get used to it. God bless you. Host you mentioned health care. President trump having lunch with 13 senate republicans, working on the health pact, Affordable Care act replacement bill. The story in usa today noting that trump said the new bill will be generous, kind, and with heart, and that legislation will be signed as soon as we can do it. Trump, however, sent on his message bit during the tuesday luncheon, and an aide to a public and senator said that the president called the house andion of the bill mean requested that senators put more money into the version of their legislation. They didnt celebrate the passing by hosting public and lawmakers at the white house, and some fallout from that this. Oaning morning. That, to being noted in the number of papers, including that comment is being noted in a number of papers, including the Washington Post. The time i underway noted in the Washington Post story, that Mitch Mcconnell to say whether thedeclined to senate would hold a vote on the bill. Mcconnell told the supporters that the bill is unsustainable, and something has to be done. Our democrat line, go ahead. Caller good morning, how are you . Host doing well. Caller it is really stunning when you look at the totality of americas interference in elections democratic elections around the world, and the historic picture there is of our nation another political discourses, the failure of the American People to examine a quid pro quo environment, particularly with the russians, and how many countries we have overthrown, their leaders, where is the selfexamination of the American People back are you have a president im a , it is so beguiling that the media just i have never seen a greater level of an elite of our nation, and the world is watching. It is not just watching any of the mistakes the president is making, but when you see these political actors who are engaging in discourse in the and assaulting President Trump no matter what he does, it is really a shameful exercise. Host did you see that in yesterdays hearing . If so, what are your examples . The it is the same type of play that plays out on giving the impression that they are trying to get to the just of what took place, but nothing ever comes out of it. Look at the amount of money money, taxpayers dollars, that they are wasting. This system has been worn for more than a decade. You can go back a very long time and see there was enormous concerns about our electronic collection systems. I have been telling people this, and have been on many talk shows. Wheres the mea culpa from the United States . Ays here is the blame game all we hear is the blame game to the russians, who are turning the cause on america, and even if they did interfere, guess what . We are getting our own just desserts, if that is the case. Host i get your point. We will go to rich, ohio, the line for independence. Good morning. My comment is basically i do not know how we can tell if there is collusion if we do not get any straight answers from the attorney general about what the specifics were of his conversations with the Russian Ambassador, and i do not believe we got any of those yesterday. Certainly, there should not be any privilege covering those discussions because they all occurred before the president was inaugurated. There is no executive privilege, attorneyclient privilege, anything else. If im wrong you can correct me, but i do not think he got into anything like that any of those conversations, except for memory loss, and i think that is a travesty. Host do you think the Democratic Senators on the panel pushed that point of, not answering questions point . No. Er the alternative would have been the same thing, maybe with former director comey. Maybe they could have gone into a confidential executive