Al Franken Goes Nuclear on Jeff Sessions' 'Insulting' Letter to Senate

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Al Franken Goes Nuclear on Jeff Sessions' 'Insulting' Letter to Senate Judiciary Committee

"I think he owes it to this committee to come back and to explain himself."

By Alexandra Rosenmann / AlterNet

March 7, 2017

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/al-franken-goes-nuclear-jeff-s...

On Monday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions attempted to clarify statements made in his January testimony through a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee. Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) was unmoved.

"I think Senator Sessions should come back. I think he owes it to this committee to come back and to explain himself, because he says in his letter...  'I did not mention communications I had with the Russian ambassador over the years because the question did not ask about them," Franken seethed Tuesday. 

Sessions met with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak twice last year, according to a Washington Post story that broke late Wednesday. 

"I asked him what he would do as attorney general if it was true that members of the campaign had met with Russians!" he hammered. "So he says, 'I did not mention communications I had with the Russian ambassador over the years because the question did not ask about them.' He answered a question I didn't ask, and for him to put this in his letter as a response is insulting!" 

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is it the al franken decade again 

How nice for Al Franken.

If that's Nuclear then what the hell would you call what St. Mark did to the baby boomers in that thread???

i watched al franken's interview today and he was fierce. ha. 

i recall when he was part of the gd halloween show at rcmh '80 with davis.

who knew he would go on to slay dragons. 

Is he slaying them, or just wrastling with them, sticking a three-inch knife into five-inch skin?

Five-inch scaly skin??

hey lann, you got a point. ha.

but just seeing anybody standing up to this admin is swell.  

Don't get me wrong...

Gosh darn it, I like Al Franken!

s he slaying them, or just wrastling with them>>>>>

 Its not a piledriver or a tombstone but its still early in the match.

Seems like the bar for "going nuclear" has fallen a little.

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he would make a great President.  I like smart, educated people to be in charge. Oh and a bit of political experience helps.

Thanks for the link Oaks, you bring up some good stuff here.

 

Why ‘Al Franken for president’ isn’t as crazy as you might think

By Chris Cillizza

 In the piece, Kraushaar writes the following about Sen. Al Franken of Minnesota:

...He’s emerged as one of the Demo­crats’ most ag­gress­ive and ef­fect­ive ques­tion­ers of Pres­id­ent Trump’s Cab­in­et nom­in­ees. He’s gen­er­ated nu­mer­ous made-for-TV clips as one of the few Demo­crats will­ing to go full-bore against his party’s top tar­gets — Jeff Ses­sions, Tom Price, and Betsy De­Vos. He’s fi­nally show­ing some per­son­al­ity in the Sen­ate, punc­tu­ated by his laugh-out-loud ex­change with En­ergy Sec­ret­ary-des­ig­nate Rick Perry. And he’ll be one of nine Demo­crats on the Ju­di­ciary Com­mit­tee ques­tion­ing Trump’s Su­preme Court nom­in­ee, Neil Gor­such. This is Al Franken’s mo­ment in the spot­light, and if he chooses, he could par­lay his good for­tune in­to a bid for the pres­id­ency in 2020...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/02/06/why-al-franken...