30 July, 2017
His loyalty to the boss severely tested but seemingly intact, Attorney General Jeff Sessions says he will stay in the job for as long as President Donald Trump wants him to serve.
"Sessions should have never recused himself, and if he was going to recuse himself, he should have told me before he took the job and I would have picked somebody else", Trump said. They see the former Alabama senator as a crucial conservative counterweight to more centrist figures inside the White House, including Ivanka Trump, her husband Jared Kushner, and Gary Cohn, the top economic adviser.
Sessions may not deserve the wrath of the president, but this nation deserves an attorney general who will fight for the rights of all Americans, who will show compassion for those whose life paths have been littered with obstacles to success and will respect the rule of law regardless of personal interests.
Sessions recalled early conversations he had with Trump about the gang. "I can understand the president's frustrations, seriously". But Trump's view of him changed after Sessions belatedly admitted to meeting with Russia's ambassador during the campaign and recused himself from the intensifying federal investigation into election meddling.
Blackwell, who worked on Trump's transition team said, "As someone who has worked with Attorney General Sessions most recently on President Trump's transition team, I can not speak highly enough about General Sessions credentials and integrity as the nation's top law enforcement officer or about his loyalty to President Trump".
So, as has been the case for many years, when senators are away from Washington for extended periods, a least one senator will trudge to the chamber every three days to lead a brief gavel-in, gavel-out pro forma session to prevent recess appointments.
The Aug. 15 primary is expected to result in a runoff in September.
Brooks even offered to step aside and encouraged his rivals - Sen. "He is determined to move this country in the direction he believes it needs to go to make us great again, and he's had a lot of criticisms, and he's steadfastly determined to get his job done".
Mitch Dozier, a 38-year-old from Montgomery who manages commercial property and describes himself as a staunch Republican, said he hasn't seen a "smoking gun", but the Russian Federation investigation merits deeper scrutiny.
Brooks, a Sessions ally, said he can not remain silent about the treatment Sessions is receiving from President Donald Trump, who has scorned Sessions as "very weak" and dangled the possibility that he will fire the former Alabama senator as the nation's top law enforcement officer. I then have-which, frankly, I think is very unfair to the president. "If the president wants to fire him, fire him", Graham said. Trump won the state's GOP primary by 20 points and had one of his largest margins of victory over Clinton there.
In Congress, Republican Sen. Richard Shelby said he called Sessions and spoke with him for several minutes.
