Is Sessions out by tomorrow?Lobbyist for Russian interests says he attended dinners hosted by Sessio

[malaise]

More lying under oath
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/15/lobbyist-russian-interests-jeff-sessions-testimony
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An American lobbyist for Russian interests who helped craft an important foreign policy speech for Donald Trump has confirmed that he attended two dinners hosted by Jeff Sessions during the 2016 campaign, apparently contradicting the attorney general’s sworn testimony given this week.

Sessions testified under oath on Tuesday that he did not believe he had any contacts with lobbyists working for Russian interests over the course of Trump’s campaign. But Richard Burt, a former ambassador to Germany during the Reagan administration, who has represented Russian interests in Washington, told the Guardian that he could confirm previous media reports that stated he had contacts with Sessions at the time.

“I did attend two dinners with groups of former Republican foreign policy officials and Senator Sessions,” Burt said.

Asked whether Sessions was unfamiliar with Burt’s role as a lobbyist for Russian interests – a fact that is disclosed in public records – or had any reason to be confused about the issue, Burt told the Guardian that he did not know.

Several media reports published before Trump’s election in November noted that Burt advised then candidate Trump on his first major foreign policy speech, a role that brought him into contact with Sessions personally.

Sessions, a former senator for Alabama who was chairman of the Trump campaign’s national security committee, reportedly invited Burt so that he could discuss issues of national security and foreign policy.

When John McCain, the Republican senator from Arizona who is a frequent critic of Trump and Russian president Vladimir Putin, asked Sessions in a hearing this week before the Senate intelligence committee about whether the attorney general had ever had “any contacts with any representative, including any American lobbyist or agent of any Russian company” during the 2016 campaign, Sessions said he did not.

“I don’t believe so,” Sessions said.

[MedusaX]

1. It is about time someone brought Richard Burt's involvement to light.. yes he is legally registered

As Putin project Lobbyist and Alfa Bank (LetterOne/ Mikhail Fridman) advisor..,

But he played HUGE role in all of this

[marylandblue]

4. So why is he talking?

[ehrnst]

10. Perhaps someone told him that involved Russian nationals who are not part of nefarious activities

would do best to come forward with anything they know, as to be exonerated early of "coverup."

I remember during the "Spotlight" era of uncovering priest child abuse, that parishes in Boston were told that there were reporters on most major newspapers who were assigned specifically to investigate the scandal, and that people should be very upfront about anything that had happened in their church that might be related. That way there would be no coverup scandal in addition to the child abuse.

[Achilleaze]

2. To protect America, lock up republican perjurers

now

freaking republican traitors selling out America totally sucks. Lock them up.

[malaise]

11. Lock him Up!

[LesterKasai]

3. "I dont believe so"...weasel words to escape culpability.

To prove that Sessions perjured himself, it would have to be proven that Sessions did believe so...which is almost impossible.

[dchill]

7. Well, technically, any words uttered by a weasel...

are weasel words. And Sessions is, most undeniably, a weasel.

[DefenseLawyer]

5. Is this like a fundraising dinner with 200 people or a private dinner with 5 people?

That seems like an important distinction.

[herding cats]

6. 8-10 people we're in attendance.

From the October politico article:

This week, Burt acknowledged, “I did write a one-pager on national security organization but it was for a think tank. I also attended two dinners, each with 8-10 people, to discuss foreign policy issues and Sessions was present. But it was made clear that this was designed to discuss foreign policy substance not campaign issues. In fact, one participant in the dinners later endorsed Hillary.”
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/donald-trump-campaign-lobbyist-russian-pipeline-229264

[Still In Wisconsin]

8. He can't recall. n/t

[Barack_America]

9. Was a relationship with Russia a "must have" in every Trump job description?