Jeff Sessions

President Mingles With Mar-a-lago Guests

... investigations into Russia’s meddling in the 2016 presidential election.  Read Sessions’ statement of recusal. » PHOTOS:  President Trump surprises supporters near Mar-a-Lago. It was not clear where within Mar-a-Lago Trump’s group was dining. On past visits, he and guests have been seated on the club’s terrace. White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said Trump is meeting with members of his team tonight to talk about “a variety of issues,” according to NPR’s Tamara Keith. Sean Spicer says "The president is meeting with members of his team tonight on a variety of issues." (I had asked about travel ban EO). — Tamara Keith (@tamarakeith NPR) March 5, 2017. Attendees of tonight’s gala posted a few photos to social media showing the decor for the event, with one image showing a stage bathed in pink light, with instruments and sound equipment set up for a live performance. A post shared by Mike Mejia (@musicmike 729) on. Mar 4, 2017 at 4:01 pm PST. The fundraiser’s theme is Japan, calling back to the institute’s ...

Octavia Spencer Gives Jeff Sessions A Poo Pie

... it gets real. While the premise is a relatable one, there’s no new take here — and Jode’s weirdness only distracts from the central gag. The Chocolate Man. An office manager (Spencer) calms her worker drones about the traumatic events of the previous week until the cause of the trauma, a creepy former employee named Steve (Bennett), shows up with a bow tie and a cart loaded with chocolates. While he tries to feed all of his former co-workers sweets and apologizes for being “a bit of a dick,” his old friends remain unmoved. (The cheery man-boy apparently pulled a gun on them last week, and no one really knows how he got past security.) Though Bennett manages to break a few of his castmates, the dark implications of the sketch make this homespun Willy Wonka just a bit too disturbing. Spencer’s Gifts HQ. In a life-or-death board meeting, Octavia Spencer — the child and heir to the Spencer’s Gifts fortune — demands that her employees present the best ideas they have for novelty items. Wearing glasses with eyeballs painted on them and drinking out of an “I Love to Fart” mug, Spencer dismisses silly ideas about hillbilly dentures and fake-poop keychains while ...

Jeff Sessions Called For A Special Counsel After Loretta Lynch Met With Bill Clinton

... But even with that explanation, his position has become far more precarious following the Post’s story. A growing number of Democrats and some Republicans have called on him to step aside from any investigation into Russia’s role in the election and whether Trump associates or campaign aides had improper contact with Russian officials during that time. Some of these Democrats, it's worth noting, are themselves singing a different tune on impartiality now than they used to. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N. Y.), for example, has called for Sessions to recuse himself, but previously defended Lynch's ability to handle the Clinton investigation after the airplane meetup. Still, Sessions' earlier call for Lynch to recuse herself makes it all the more difficult for him to argue now that he should remain in a managerial or oversight role in the investigations that the FBI, which reports up to the Justice ...

Jeff Sessions Recusal, Jane Fonda And Bitcoin

... following calls for his resignation over contact he had with the Russian ambassador during the campaign. Critics also accused Sessions of failing to properly disclose that information during his confirmation hearings. Here's what Sessions' recusal means. President Trump slams 'witch hunt'. President Donald Trump defended Sessions as an "honest man" who "did not say anything wrong" and blasted Democratic lawmakers in a series of tweets. "He could have stated his response more accurately, but it was clearly not intentional," Trump wrote about his attorney general. "The Democrats are overplaying their hand. They lost the election, and now they have lost their grip on reality. The real story is all of the illegal leaks of classified and other information. It is a total 'witch hunt!'". Jane Fonda says she was sexually abused. Actress Jane Fonda has been raped and was sexually abused as a child, she revealed in a new interview. “I always thought it was my fault — that I didn’t do or say the right thing,” the 79-year-old Grace and Frankie star told The EDIT. Bitcoin is now more valuable than ounce of gold. For the first ...

Attorney General Jeff Sessions' Path To Remake Justice Department May Be Clearer

... Heaphy said, "is that the new department is not as mindful of those resource constraints and seems to want to pursue a more ideological agenda, and I think that could be both ineffective and costly.". Even as Sessions outlined his vision for the department at his confirmation hearing, he was tailed by questions about whether he would withdraw from any investigation involving the Trump campaign and Russian meddling in the election. At his first news conference, following revelations about two undisclosed conversations with the Russian ambassador, he announced he would step away from any such investigation. It won't be the first time an attorney general has shifted the department's priorities. Obama's first attorney general, Eric Holder, set aside a criminal justice memo from his Republican predecessor, John Ashcroft, to charge people with the most serious, provable offenses and replaced it with his own policy of discouraging harsh mandatory minimum sentences for nonviolent crime. Sessions' actions are not ...

Watch Kate Mckinnon Turn Jeff Sessions Into Forrest Gump On 'snl

... and phone alerts saying I was a sneaky little liar. I didn't know what to do so my lawyer said 'Run, Jeffy, run.' I started running and running.". "Sessions" then tells his neighbor about how he was as "worked up as a double-donged piggy in a room full of sows" during his confirmation hearings, where the attorney general is now accused of lying under oath when he said he didn't have talks with Russian officials. "I've never talked to no Russians, ever. And that's all I got to say about that," the attorney general tells the man. As soon as that man boards the bus and is replaced by another passenger, "Sessions" admits, "I talked to the Russians. Twice. You know, I talked to a fellow who was Russian on account of he was the Russian ambassador.". "Sessions" then remembers that he and Michael Flynn were the only members of the Trump administration to meet with Russian officials … and J. D. Gordon… and Jared Kushner and Carter Page. And Paul Manafort. The cold open concludes with a brief visit from Vladimir Putin ("This meeting never happened") and host Octavia Spencer reprising her Minny role from The Help. Attorney General Sessions to recuse himself from any Trump ...

1 Constitutional Clause Protects Jeff Sessions From Democratic Slams

... But there is strong evidence that the ever-feckless Obama administration let our country down in this latest presidential election by failing to protect us from Russian cyber warfare. President Obama and his administration failed to protect us from a foreign attack, and we should investigate the Obama administration’s failure on this matter, and then set up our own office of offensive and defensive cyber attack strategies so that nothing like the hacking of Democratic National Committee e-mail accounts by a foreign nation ever happens again in the United States. President Obama is the one who decided not to retaliate against Russia, assuming Secretary Clinton would win. The Obama administration’s weakness failed to protect us from our principal foreign adversary and failed to challenge it after the ...

Jeff Sessions’s Worst Week In Washington

... Kislyak at the Republican National Convention in July and then at his office in September. At first, Sessions tried to explain away this seeming contradiction by noting that he met with Kislyak in his official capacity as a senator, not as a surrogate for the Trump campaign — making his answer to Franken perfectly fine. When it became clear that wasn't going to work — or come close to working — Sessions decided that he would recuse himself from any and all investigations into the 2016 campaign by the Justice Department, a clear attempt to throw a bone to the howling pack in hopes that the controversy would die down. Sessions, still, didn't have a good answer on his answer to Franken. “I was taken aback about this brand-new information," Sessions said Thursday, referencing the CNN report cited by Franken about ...