Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Thursday that he plans to stay in his job despite the president’s public assertion that he would not have nominated Sessions to the post had he known that he would recuse himself from the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election. “I’m totally confident that we can continue to run this office in an effective way,” Sessions added. In the New York Times interview, Trump also criticized his attorney general for his responses to questions in that hearing, saying: “Jeff Sessions gave some bad answers. According to federal regulations, the special counsel reports to the attorney general, though because Sessions is recused, Mueller reports to Rosenstein. The attorney general can veto the special counsel’s decisions but is not supposed to offer day-to-day supervision.

Source: Washington Post July 20, 2017 14:51 UTC