Priebus says he stopped Sessions from resigning or being fired
By Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN
Updated 6:36 PM ET, Wed February 14, 2018
(CNN) - Former chief of staff Reince Priebus revealed that he helped persuade President Donald Trump not to fire his attorney general last year in the wake of a special counsel being appointed to investigate ties between his campaign and Russia.
Priebus, who served in the White House for six months, details for the first time the moment when Jeff Sessions was prepared to resign last May in a forthcoming book, "The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency," by Chris Whipple.
Vanity Fair released an excerpt Wednesday from the book, which is set to be released in March.
During an Oval Office meeting in May, eight days after firing FBI Director James Comey, Trump called Sessions an "idiot" and blamed the appointment of a special counsel on Sessions' choice to recuse himself from the Justice Department's Russia investigation, The New York Times reported.
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