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The Sessions sessions

It's not a major issue, but there was something that I found a bit disturbing. It was right at the end of the first round of questions, by the Committee Chairman. Sessions was part of candidate Trump's foreign policy team. The Chair asked if the team ever had any meetings and if there were team members that Sessions had never met at all. The answers were no to the first and yes to the second. Both the Chair and Sessions kind of smiled while speaking, Sessions almost chuckled.
For me, it underscores what a con Trump is as President. I am clearly not a fan of Trump, so maybe I am just looking for confirmation of his incompetence. Perhaps it's regular business for candidates to just have people around them to point at and say, "Look he's/she's with me."
I would think that, at the very least, a cursory meeting or two would be held among people who are part of a "team." If any recent candidate has ever needed a team of advisors about foreign policy, it's Trump. Foreign policy has been, IMO, a big failure so far for Trump. He managed to screw up a planned state visit to England. England! They are at the top of the list of allies, a "special relationship" and all.
Again, I don't want to make a mountain out of a molehill, but I found that exchange between Sessions and the Chair upsetting.
 
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Sessions was trying the "Southern Gentleman" routine, which doesn't work so well if you are the footstool for a New York conman.
 
Skeptic Ginger said:
Based on what?

He certainly knows more about Trump's obstruction than he is admitting to given Sessions is claiming he recommended Comey's firing because of Comey's handling of the Clinton investigation and there is on-the-record evidence from Sessions' own mouth that is not true.
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You have an old fashion view of the truth. Truth is now an ever changing thing that can be entirely different on different days. In the past he did things for certain reasons, now he did those things for separate reasons and so on. What his motivations were changes based on the needs of today. The past is fluid in that regard now.

You need to update and get a more post modern political mindset.
 
Since he has such trouble "not recalling" a whole bunch of stuff maybe sessions should consider getting a diary and recording any significant meetings, discussions and so forth he has had. I mean you don't want to get details wrong about important discussions and just in case someone suspects you've messed something up it's always a good things to have a paper trail.
 
Arcade22 said:
Since he has such trouble "not recalling" a whole bunch of stuff maybe sessions should consider getting a diary and recording any significant meetings, discussions and so forth he has had. I mean you don't want to get details wrong about important discussions and just in case someone suspects you've messed something up it's always a good things to have a paper trail.
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I guess he isn't as smart about these things as Comey.

Actually, I think he remembers it all and is as dishonest as a Republican.
 
Arcade22 said:
Since he has such trouble "not recalling" a whole bunch of stuff maybe sessions should consider getting a diary and recording any significant meetings, discussions and so forth he has had. I mean you don't want to get details wrong about important discussions and just in case someone suspects you've messed something up it's always a good things to have a paper trail.
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He got asked whether he had refreshed his memory with his written records, but his answer was incredibly evasive. He got asked to provide copies of those written records.

Given he said that it was not policy to disclose certain things, he got asked about what the policy actually said. Again his answer was incredibly evasive, and was asked to provide a written copy of the policy.
 
Aber said:
He got asked whether he had refreshed his memory with his written records, but his answer was incredibly evasive. He got asked to provide copies of those written records.

Given he said that it was not policy to disclose certain things, he got asked about what the policy actually said. Again his answer was incredibly evasive, and was asked to provide a written copy of the policy.
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Considering how frank and straightforward he was during his questioning there's really only one way to describe it: 100% total and absolute vindication.
 
One thing that struck me during the hearing, but I haven't seen commented on: when Sessions was stonewalling, why didn't the committee say "Trump knows you're testifying, if he wished to invoke executive privilege he would have, answer the question or face charges of contempt?" Why did they let him weasel off the hook with claiming to want to let Trump claim it later?
 
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