Al Franken on Sessions today...

[babylonsister]

U.S. Senator Al Franken
41 mins ·


Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ testimony in the Senate Intelligence Committee was very unsettling. We know that a hostile foreign power—Russia—sought to undermine our democracy by meddling in the 2016 presidential election. But our attorney general, who is the top law enforcement official in the country, and the rest of the Trump administration seem unconcerned by that disturbing truth. They seem to have collective amnesia about meeting with Russian officials during and after the campaign and only remember when they have been caught. They are not acting like a group of people with nothing to hide.

I also think it’s very clear, despite what he attempted to assert in his testimony, that Attorney General Sessions wasn’t actually confused by my question during his January confirmation hearing. Rather, I believe he’s trying to downplay the gravity of and whitewash the fact that he misled the Senate Judiciary Committee under oath and failed to correct the record until he was forced to do so seven weeks later after reporting by the Washington Post.

Here’s my message to Jeff Sessions: stop misleading the American public, stop making excuses, and start being more forthcoming. Come before the Senate Judiciary Committee to speak honestly and openly with those who you first misled.

https://www.franken.senate.gov/?p=press_release&id=3719

[Amaryllis]

1. But who is gonna make him do that?

[L. Coyote]

2. I saw enough to know he was hiding the truth. He even said he needed to qualify statements so

he couldn't be called a liar later. HELLO WORLD! Parsing carefully and qualifying everything with outlandish conditions is the sure sign of hiding the truth.

[Kablooie]

9. He hasn't learned from his boss.

You don't qualify your lies and dance around the truth.
Just jump in with both feet and LIE! With confidence!
That's the way a true Trumpitorian does it!

[Docreed2003]

3. Seems appropriate...

[Madam45for2923]

4. Yes! Very appropriate!

[LiberalLovinLug]

5. Sometimes I wonder if SNL impersonations do more harm than good

Lets face it, Kate McKinnon is adorable. She makes Sessions into some funny little man. A comic joke. She does the same with Kellyanne Conway. Kate makes her into some unwilling cute blond in over her head. When in fact both are dangerous evil anti-American influential forces. (of course Sessions is more so)

Even Balwin's Trump. He makes him into some kind of idiot. Yes Donald is ignorant of a whole lot of how government works, or knowledge of other countries, but he knows exactly what he is doing and why.

[erronis]

15. Yes - we trivialize evil by making fun of it. And of course the more that we accept it as "funny"

The more they will shove it down our throats and up our @sses. Sometimes it is necessary to get serious , but since the Cronkites, Wallaces, Rathers have left the news scene, it appears everything has to be gaudy-ed up to get eye-balls. (Spoken from someone who only gets T.V. clips via you-toob.)

[Dave Starsky]

16. It was funny for, literally, 15 minutes.

Now that we're actually having to live with this shitgoblin as President of the United States, it's not funny anymore.

[rainy]

20. No,our comedians keep us sane, we need then

Especially in times like these. "Those holy fools, they simply see too much too clearly."
http://www.crisispapers.org/Editorials/sign-language.htm

[BigmanPigman]

6. Coats, Rogers, Sessions, etc.They will ALL stonewalled and so will everyone else that is questioned.

Unless we hope, pray, cry, swear until 2020 there will be no justice. They are winning! We must stop them and the only way is through a NON PARTISAN investigation that the GOP can't de-rail. That means an Independent Investigation Commission that we must demand of the House GOP. It is all in their court and they know it. All the dems know it too and their already introduced bill in the House will stagnate until we call, write, protest, and town hall them until they do!!! IT IS UP TO US!

[SusanaMontana41]

7. Amen. nt

[kpete]

8. K&r

Keep it coming sister

Kp

[SHRED]

10. Blah blah blah

Franken and others need to call contempt on these fools.
Coats, Rogers, and Sessions.

All this hand wringing and "suggestions" mean nothing.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

11. I agree. Most strongly.

Professional liars only respond to tangible danger (i.e. Consequences) to themselves.

[Major Nikon]

12. Kinda hard for the minority party to do that

Who they really should be calling out right now are the GOP Senators who are enabling Sessions' perjury.

[Alice11111]

18. Yep. They aren't going to impeach themselves, and they are

Going to protect the twinkly eyed lyin elf, and allow him to self righteously show his defense to even being questioned. If he were innocent, instead of hurling self righteous insults at those questioning him, and stonewalling, very badly (hard to believe he is a lawyer), he would have respectfully answered the questions, and thanked them for the opportunity to testify. Kind of like Comey, even though I can't stand him.

[George II]

13. Al, they're unconcerned because they "won". They're not only unconcerned, they're giddy.

[Honeycombe8]

14. Love him. But I don't think Sessions is going to be testifying again anytime soon.

I think he had enough today, and he served his purpose, which was to refute some things Comey said, and to emphatically state that there was no collusion HOW DARE YOU THINK THAT?! Etc., etc.

[Augiedog]

17. Peep walk time, cuff' m and stuff'm.

[riversedge]

19. k for visibility

[Patterson]

21. Charlie Chaplin made a funny movie about Hitler.