Thursday, March 2, 2017

‘Total’ Confidence: Trump Backs Sessions Amid Calls for Recusal, Resignation

President Donald Trump told reporters on Thursday that he had "total" confidence in Attorney General Jeff Sessions amid calls from some lawmakers that Sessions recuse himself or even resign from the Justice Department.

When pressed on whether Sessions should recuse himself from investigating alleged ties between Trump's surrogates and intermediaries for the Russian government, the president said, "I don't think so."

A senior administration official told NBC News that the White House learned about Sessions' contact during the 2016 campaign with a Russian ambassador from a reporter on Wednesday night prior to a story published in the Washington Post. That meeting was confirmed by a Sessions spokesperson as something done in his capacity as a senator at the time. 

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