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Sources: Congress investigating another possible Sessions-Kislyak meeting

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Tovarisc

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Congressional investigators are examining whether Attorney General Jeff Sessions had an additional private meeting with Russia's ambassador during the presidential campaign, according to Republican and Democratic Hill sources and intelligence officials briefed on the investigation.

Investigators on the Hill are requesting additional information, including schedules from Sessions, a source with knowledge tells CNN. They are focusing on whether such a meeting took place April 27, 2016, at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, DC, where then-candidate Donald Trump was delivering his first major foreign policy address. Prior to the speech, then-Sen. Sessions and Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak attended a small VIP reception with organizers, diplomats and others.

In addition to congressional investigators, the FBI is seeking to determine the extent of interactions the Trump campaign team may have had with Russia's ambassador during the event as part of its broader counterintelligence investigation of Russian interference in the election. The FBI is looking into whether there was an additional private meeting at the Mayflower the same day, sources said. Neither Hill nor FBI investigators have yet concluded whether a private meeting took place -- and acknowledge that it is possible any additional meeting was incidental.
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Asked at a news conference on March 2 whether there were any other meetings with Russians besides those two, Sessions told reporters, "I don't believe so -- you know, we meet a lot of people -- I don't believe so."

Later that week, when Sessions updated his sworn testimony to the Senate judiciary committee, he acknowledged the two meetings with Kislyak but did not mention any encounter at the Mayflower Hotel.

"I do not recall any discussions with the Russian ambassador, or any other representative of the Russian government, regarding the political campaign on these occasions or any other occasion," Sessions wrote.
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Russia was already trying to help Trump before the Mayflower Hotel speech, according to a US intelligence community assessment released in January. The report concluded that by March 2016, Kremlin-backed news outlets began supporting Trump and Russian military intelligence had kicked off its election-related cyber operations.

One day before the speech, Trump won commanding primary victories in five Northeast states, cementing his front-runner status and putting him on a track to secure the bitterly contested Republican nomination.
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Kislyak listened to the speech from the front row.
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Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2017/05/31/p...essions-russian-ambassador-meeting/index.html
 
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Lord Frieza

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This is like the third time now we've had an event of Sessions not documenting a meeting with Russians. I think something is going on.
 
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ShadowSwordmaster

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rjinaz

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Boke1879 said:
Did he forget about this one too?
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Yeah it's amazing isn't it? You'd think you would remember talking to one of the most important diplomats.

But anyway, it's entirely possible they were just at the same place and didn't interact. But, it's also possible they did so it's good they are looking into this to see if Sessions is a big fat liar.
 
RPGCrazied

RPGCrazied

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Better fire him like you did Flynn to blow more smoke into the matter. Trump is loyal to no one, if you make him look bad, you're gone.
 
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Jmanunknown

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~Kinggi~ said:
thats where things become very damning if there was another blatant meeting and he continued to keep it secret after the big fuss about him lying of the first one.
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You mean the first two. This would have been a third undisclosed meeting with sergey kislyak.
 
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Jmanunknown

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Lord Frieza said:
Technically the first two were the same meeting, I believe, but it was the fact that he didn't document it twice. Someone correct me if I'm wrong though
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No it was two different meetings one at the Republican National Convention in July and one in his Senate office in September. He lied about having contact with the Russian ambassador both when being confirmed by the senate and when applying for security clearance. This would be a third separate undisclosed meeting that happened before the other two meetings took place.
 
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Lord Frieza

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Jmanunknown said:
No it was two different meetings one at the Republican National Convention in July and one in his Senate office in September. He lied about having contact with the Russian ambassador both when being confirmed by the senate and when applying for security clearance. This would be a third separate undisclosed meeting that happened before the other two meetings took place.
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Okay, thanks for the correction. Even worse lol.
 
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theCalamity

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Dead Prince said:
Covfefe was just a distraction
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I'm tired of this.

People constantly say this or that are a distraction, but it's not a thing, not from this administration. The dude fucked up a tweet and that's it. It's funny for a while and we move on. If it is a distraction, they're doing a piss poor job at it because we're hearing about the topic of the thread. Finally, I have to question the "everything is a distraction" narrative when these supposed distractions makes the administration look even dumber than it should be.

There is no 5th dimension chess. Trump is not a mastermind. We have a dumb president in the White House. Don't ascribe some notion of intelligence to him.
 
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Mii

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This will all one day be known as the Mayflower scandal. It seems all key figures are involved at this event.
 
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Autodidact

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Has GAF reached saturation point with these stories? We got a multi-page thread with people genuinely arguing that blackface isn't racist, but another thread on the devious white supremacist attorney general's being a Russian pawn has yet to break a page. The Comey firing thread and every thread that week moved at breakneck speed.
 
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Crocodile

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As per usual fuck Sessions. Hopefully this blows up into something big.

Autodidact said:
Has GAF reached saturation point with these stories? We got a multi-page thread with people genuinely arguing that blackface isn't racist, but another thread on the devious white supremacist attorney general's being a Russian pawn has yet to break a page. The Comey firing thread and every thread that week moved at breakneck speed.
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I don't know why (aside from people are fucking stupid) but there is like an annual defense force for Blackface on GAF. I think this thread might not be moving very fast since this doesn't seem like this is being reported on a lot in the media right now. It might pick up steam later tonight or tomorrow.
 
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ShironRedshift

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Hmm, how much does Trump even actually care about Sessions I wonder? Honestly, kind of surprised he hasn't tossed him to the curb at this point (unless he has some weird longtime friendship thing like with Flynn), but I guess he must have some birdies in his ear telling him how terrible that would look. Really wish he would get the boot though. Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.
 
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AlphaDump

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Autodidact said:
Has GAF reached saturation point with these stories? We got a multi-page thread with people genuinely arguing that blackface isn't racist, but another thread on the devious white supremacist attorney general's being a Russian pawn has yet to break a page. The Comey firing thread and every thread that week moved at breakneck speed.
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nah, everyone is pissed, but it is literally just going to make us spin in circles while we wait for any of the shoes to drop. after 10 months, you kind of get numb to flipping out.
 
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norm9

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ShironRedshift said:
Hmm, how much does Trump even actually care about Sessions I wonder? Honestly, kind of surprised he hasn't tossed him to the curb at this point (unless he has some weird longtime friendship thing like with Flynn), but I guess he must have some birdies in his ear telling him how terrible that would look. Really wish he would get the boot though. Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.
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Sessions was one of the first people that Trump gave a thumbs up to at the beginning of his run when every Repub thought Trump was a joke. So I think he's sticking by Sessions because of loyalty.
 
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Stinkles

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norm9 said:
Sessions was one of the first people that Trump gave a thumbs up to at the beginning of his run when every Repub thought Trump was a joke. So I think he's sticking by Sessions because of loyalty.
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I think they have a deeper shared connection. Not loyalty but something clumsy and nefariously Russian and money oriented. Wilbur Ross too.
 
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jellies_two

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For people following closely this is sort of Meh
As Mayflower has been a key event in the Russia trump thing for some time.

But for the slow people in congress this should be more of a WTF moment.
 
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AlphaDump

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Autodidact said:
That sounds like saturation point to me.
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Not really. We have nothing else to go on besides this trickle of info, been like that for months. When parts start to move in a big way, you'll see the uptick in responses. A POSSIBLE meeting is basically speculation, and everyone already knows sessions is dirty. Waiting on Congress to move on anything is a lot like holding a shit.
 
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