Sessions does not recall at all.
Okay, that was a sick burn. Sessionsā invocation of the heretofore little-known executive potential future executive executive privilege invocation protection privilege must have gotten under olā Shouts at Clouds skin.
clear as mud, Sessions sure is a wordsmith, damn, the boy can make a point, eh?
Seems McCain didnāt stay up watching baseball last night, though Sessions might have.
They say with advanced dementia, patientās have good days and bad days.
Grampy McCain was apparently having a good day today.
This is actually a critically damaging line of questions, attempting to establish that Darth Keebler has no history of being at all interested in Russia. Grandpa Get-Off-My-Lawn seems to have āhad it up to hereā with their Russia bullshit.
Whatās the point in Sessions meeting with Kislyak or indeed anyone if he canāt recall, or make a note of, what was discussed?
Sessions, in just that one short exchange with McCain:
āI donāt recallā¦ā
āDid Iā¦?ā
āWe may have discussed thatā¦ā
āI just donāt have a real recallā¦ā
āI donāt recall.ā
Iām surprised he didnāt blank out at the start of the hearing when asked to state his name for the record.
(BTW, the subject of this exchange was Sessions role as chairman of the Strategic Forces Subcommittee. āStrategic Forcesā is military-speak for the nuclear arsenal. Be afraid; be very afraid.)
Iāll bet the fact Comey kept contemporaneous notes was a real eye-opener for these traitorous morons.
Canāt do the afraid thing today.
Maybe tomorrow.
Today, Iām into tumbrels and guillotines.
There was a general āred scareā feeling to Sen. McCainās questions, but when he was trying to suss out whether Sessions was personally interested in Russian doings in the past, I wasnāt sure what the point was.
Was McCain trying to suggest that Sessionsā lack of interest in the Russians either 1) somehow exonerated him from apparently having no interest in the Russian hacking of the election (which would seem to be a criminal offense for the nationās top law enforcement officer) or 2) somehow precluded there being any possibility of Sessions colluding with the Russians (he was never interested in them in the past, so he wouldnāt collude with them now)?
As usual with McCain in these hearings, it was rambling and seemingly off-topic (the Russians are wandering around the midwest?) and it confused me.
So, basically two people who donāt recall anything, trying to sound intelligent on the topic.
Did you push the big red launch button or not?
I donāt recall.
Sessions seemed to invoke the failure to recall privilege made famous by one of his predecessors.
Since Sessions was there for that hearing, Iām sure itās fresh in his memory
As I seem to remember from the Iran-Contra hearings, the full, lawyer-approved form of this privilege is āAt the present time to the best of my recollection, I have no memory of such an event.ā
Heh.
Sort of like two blind men trying to describe the elephant they are examining.
The only thing Sessions proved today was rhat he has serious memory issues.
Listening now to part of Sessions āoutrageā in his statement that he would collude with Russia when he has served this country āhonorablyā for 35 years.
Um, no, Jeffie boy. You have been a disgrace to this country for much longer than that.
But for some reason he had a terribly clear memory of that bit of the Kisylak conversation which involved the Ukraine.
If it was anyone but McCain, I would expect that the point was to establish that Sessions had no interest in Russia as a Senator so his claims that he met with Kislyak as a Senator and not as a member of the Trump campaign was bullshit. That, however, seems to be much too coherent a deduction for the senescent McCain.