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The new administration might actually work to quell or even make disappear, shall we say, evidence that would be important to the american people understanding exactly what happened with the russian hack and whether there were any connections to this new administration. >> the story that brian just mentioned there, this is the story that attorney general sessions spoke twice with russian ambassador during trump's presidential campaign. it was last year it occurred. it occurred before the beginning of this year. but the attribution is justice department officials. so this is coming from inside,...

General made is simply not true. this is of course how mike flynn went down, right? the deputy attorney general said mike flynn has said something to the vice president about his phone calls with the russian ambassador, which is simply not true. that opens the possibility that russia might therefore seek to blackmail the national security adviser. so you see people throughout the government, and leaks are a problematic thing. but they're raising their hands and saying wait a minute, what we're hearing out of the white house is simply not consistent with the facts that i know. >> congressman at...

Minimum, jeff sessions needs to recuse himself from investigations around the question of russian contact. >> further question about that is why did he bring it up? he wasn't asked directly by senator franken whether he had any conversations with the russians. he was asked what would he do if he learned of any evidence that there had been someone in the campaign who had conversation with the russians. here is the answer again which is so gratuitous. i'm not aware of any of those activity, he added. he added. i have been called a surrogate a time or two in the campaign, and i did not have any c...

So we haven't had a chance to digest it. but the attorney general in his confirmation hearings was very clear with a one-word answer when asked by a senator whether he had contact with the russians in any way, shape, or form. he said no, period. no condition, no modification. so obviously that turns out to not be accurate there is no reason to believe that jeff sessions in the confirmation hearing was trying to hide something. he may simply have forgotten. but it does mean two things. number one, it adds to the incredible weight of evidence that the administration is not credible on these issu...

Way, shape or form with the russians about the campaign. it's quite possible he did, but it wasn't about the campaign. so a one-word answer again doesn't obviously rise to the standard of perjury. >> but why would people at the justice department leak this story. they knew it. it couldn't have been an incidental walking past a guy and how's it going ambassador? there must have been some assistance to the conversation for people around him. i take these attributions serious. justice department officials said. you've got two people, two source story here which is very appropriate to "the washing...