WASHINGTON ― Attorney General Jeff Sessions will testify publicly before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday afternoon, the committee’s chair, Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.), announced on Monday. Sessions figured prominently in fired FBI Director James Comey’s dramatic testimony last Thursday before the same committee. Comey suggested that there may be more compromising information involving the attorney general and the investigation into President Donald Trump’s campaign’s ties to Russia. Comey said he opted not to tell Sessions about Trump’s specific request, however, because he and the FBI already knew that Sessions would have to recuse himself from the Russia investigation. “We also were aware of facts that I can’t discuss in an open setting that would make his continued engagement in a Russia-related investigation problematic,” Comey said of Sessions on Thursday.

Source: Huffington Post June 12, 2017 15:22 UTC