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And do your thing. back now with susan hennessey and john flannery. attorney general jeff sessions voluntarily appeared before the house intelligence committee today as part of their russia investigation. here's what the democrat's ranking member had to say about it. >> i asked the attorney general whether he was ever instructed by the president to take any action that he believed would hinder the russia investigation. and he declined to answer the question. there is no privilege basis to

Meanwhile, here is what ranking senate intel adam schiff said yesterday after attorney general sessions testified in a closed session. >> i do want to express my concern over his refusal to respond to what i think is a very important question. i asked the attorney general whether he was ever instructed by the president to take any action that he believed would hinder the russian, russia investigation. and he declined to answer the question. there is no privilege basis to decline to answer a question like that. if the president did not instruct him to hinder the action he could say so. if the p...

Committee's investigation into the 2016 election. the chairman told the times that it was something along the lines of i hope you can conclude this as quickly as possible. senator richard burr said he said he replied to mr. trump that when we have exhausted everybody we need to talk to, we will finish. today, the house intelligence committee met separately with attorney general jeff sessions and eric prince who reportedly tried to establish a back channel of communication between donald trump and vladimir putin. congressman adam schiff said this. >> sk i asked the attorney gener if he was inst...

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