Top Senate Democrat Chuck Schumer joined House minority leader Nancy Pelosi in calling Thursday for Sessions to resign. Sessions testified during his Senate confirmation hearing 10 January that he had no contacts with Russian officials. Several Senate Republicans rejected calls for Sessions to step down or for Trump to appoint a special prosecutor. “We’re not in the business of investigating individuals, senators, that say they were doing Senate business,” Senate intelligence chairman Richard Burr of North Carolina told reporters. As an Alabama Republican senator, Sessions was visited by Kislyak in his Capitol Hill office on 8 September, the justice department said in its statement.

Source: Mint March 02, 2017 19:30 UTC