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WP: Sessions Met with Russia Twice Last Year, Didn't Disclose During Confirmation

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Blader said:
Kislyak seems pretty terrible at his job if his efforts to compromise two of Trump's highest-level cabinet figures have been exposed in just two months.
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I mean, it could also be that Russia wants to demonstrate America's incompetence on this issue and make America look bad as well as sew distrust in our system
 
Steel said:
Uh, not sure Perez was supposed to let that slip, but... This should be interesting.
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I think now you're going to start seeing Republicans caving into investigating these ties – not just because congressman just got their asses tanned in town halls last week, but because this story has gotten too big to go away.

Major American news sources are dropping simultaneous bombs on the same subject (WSJ just released on a story).

Foreign intelligence agencies are openly investigating the Russian ties.

No Trump tweet is going to make this go away, and that's a big problem for Republicans.
 
At the very least, hopefully this will be the cup of coffee that gets the DC pundits to stop congratulating Trump about his "presidential" speech last night. Glad this hit just 24 hours later.
 
Meanwhile, both Putin and Kislyak:

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Blader said:
Kislyak seems pretty terrible at his job if his efforts to compromise two of Trump's highest-level cabinet figures have been exposed in just two months.
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You're assuming he didn't want to be caught. Russia wants chaos and for American confidence in the government to collapse.
 
ZeoVGM said:
Am I being naive or realistic when I feel like this won't end in anything that truly hurts Trump?

I just feel like it's been one thing after another. Over and over again. And every possibly thing that happens that makes me think, "This is it," never actually is.
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I'm not smart enough or informed enough to say whether or not this will truly hurt Trump, or even if it will meaningfully hurt Sessions himself. We live in a reality where the Attorney General of the United States has just admitted to what a layman like myself would consider perjury, and it's totally up in the air whether it will actually matter or not. I'm not okay with that.

We have to keep pushing, keep making noise, and not let go. It's possible none of this will really matter in the end, and Trump is really just an untouchable anomaly, living proof that our system of government is broken beyond hope, but if we entertain that mindset, we lose. There's no happy end to this story if the left just gets demoralized and accepts the actions of the current administration.
 
Blader said:
Kislyak seems pretty terrible at his job if his efforts to compromise two of Trump's highest-level cabinet figures have been exposed in just two months.
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They've got their excuse that sessions was just doing Senate business which I think they felt pretty safe with.
 
Weren't there questions recently about where Russia was getting the identities of certain spies and "assets" America had in Russia?
 
Blader said:
Kislyak seems pretty terrible at his job if his efforts to compromise two of Trump's highest-level cabinet figures have been exposed in just two months.
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This whole situation seems like a case of failing upwards. I dont believe any of these people thought they'd be in power in 2017. The main pusher of these investigations seems to have been, initially, an antagonized IC. Now that the ball is rolling, heads will be too. We may have been in a different place entirely if Trump wasnt so aggressive with his transition and damaging language.
 
minor effort said:
At the very least, hopefully this will be the cup of coffee that gets the DC pundits to stop congratulating Trump about his "presidential" speech last night. Glad this hit just 24 hours later.
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I wonder if it was planned that way? Just when the media seems positive on Trump, this drops 24 hours later.
 
All we need now is for Obama to admit he witness the Russian Pee Pee stuff and we'd have a Pheonix Wright level of turnabout going on in washington.
 
More_Badass said:
Why are they so important in that regard? Or is it just the sheer number of press covering this?
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The latter, you can feel it gaining momentum. (not that it didn't have it before, but other credible outlets independently corroborating stories just adds additional weight)
 
More_Badass said:
Why are they so important in that regard? Or is it just the sheer number of press covering this?
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You now have 2 of the big three on it so that means the story is well sourced. Also the WSJ holds more sway with Republicans than WaPo or the NYT. WSJ's editorial board is batshit crazy, but their reporting is sound.
 
Here's a video I love to watch every time we get Russia news.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lO61TCgbMas

Also I'm really surprised that Sessions was stupid enough to get caught doing this. I would have figured that the Roger Stone/ Flynn/Alex Jones type faction of the Trump campaign would have been the only ones that got their hands dirty. If Sessions was involved then Bannon must have been too.
 
So what does it take to get people to assemble large protests in the streets over this stuff? Have we had a Russia specific protest yet?
 
Tranqueris said:
Here's a video I love to watch every time we get Russia news.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lO61TCgbMas

Also I'm really surprised that Sessions was stupid enough to get caught doing this. I would have figured that the Roger Stone/ Flynn/Alex Jones type faction of the Trump campaign would have been the only ones that got their hands dirty. If Sessions was involved then Bannon must have been too.
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It's even funnier because he's stupid enough to admit he did come into contact with Russia during that time rather than try to say he just forgot, which would be a far more effective way to dodge charges
 
RoKKeR said:
The latter, you can feel it gaining momentum. (not that it didn't have it before, but other credible outlets independently corroborating stories just adds additional weight)
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Yeah, I felt two papers independently publishing reports on the same story at around the same time suggest more are coming, especially when it is a big one like WSJ
 
BlastProcessing said:
You now have 2 of the big three on it so that means the story is well sourced. Also the WSJ holds more sway with Republicans than WaPo or the NYT. WSJ's editorial board is batshit crazy, but their reporting is sound.
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All three of the three, NYT is running it too:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/01/us/politics/obama-trump-russia-election-hacking.html

On Wednesday, a Justice Department official confirmed that Mr. Sessions had two conversations with Ambassador Kislyak last year, when he was still a senator, despite testifying at his Jan. 10 confirmation hearing that he had no contact with the Russians. At that hearing, Mr. Sessions was asked what he would do if it turned out to be true that anyone affiliated with the Trump team had communicated with the Russian government in the course of the campaign. He said he was "not aware of any of those activities."
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