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Retaliate against his political opponents? >> mr. conyers, i would say that it's -- the department of justice can never be used to retaliate politically against opponents and that would be wrong. >> reporter: and it also raises questions about the specific role sessions himself will play. during his confirmation hearing in january, sessions said this. >> to be very clear, you intend to recuse yourself from both the clinton e-mail investigation and any matters involving the clinton foundation if there are any? >> yes. >> reporter: a promise he was asked to reiterate today. >> do you stand by th...

They want to know what role sessions played with the up in coming fbi director who was leading the investigation. one of president's confidantes questioned how long the president would keep robert mueller. >> i think he's considering, perhaps, terminating the special counsel. i think he's weighing that option. i think it's pretty clear by what one of his lawyers said on television recently. i personally think it would be a very significant mistake even though i don't think there's a justification and even though -- >> a justification for? >> for special counsel in this case. >> and christoph...

May have had a third contact with russians that he did not disclose and reports that he and president trump had heated exchanges after sessions recused himself from the russian probe. cnn washington correspondent ryan nobles is following this story. ryan, what are you hearing there this morning? >> reporter: good morning. this is a bit of a surprise and at this point we don't have full confirmation that this hearing will each happen. attorney general jeff sessions was supposed to appear before a senate appropriations subcommittee to discuss the justice department's budget on tuesday, but democ...

He recused himself from the russian probe. ryan nobles is following this story. how certain is it the meeting is happening on tuesday? >> reporter: it's very much up in the air. if the hearing happens the first chance that senators get to ask attorney general sessions under oath about the cnn report that investigators are looking into a third possible undisclosed meeting that sessions may have had with the russian ambassador sergie kislyak. the justice department is saying that meeting never happened but session has yet to answer a direct question on that topic. at this point, we don't have co...

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