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| That you will agree to make yourself available as the committee needs in the weeks and months ahead? | |
| Senator Warner, I will commit to appear before this committee and other committees as appropriate. | |
| I don't think it's good policy to continually bring cabinet members or the attorney general before multiple committees going over the same things over and over. | |
| I know other members of the Judiciary Committee or Appropriations Committee may want to raise them. | |
| I'm Mark Warner. | |
| I've got to keep my false narrative going. | |
| Thank you. | |
| MSM thinks you're stupid. | |
| They think you're a moron. | |
| We're about to show you Attorney General Jeff Sessions' opening statement. | |
| It's powerful. | |
| But sitting here watching this over the last few hours is incredible. | |
| They're like, you met with the Russians. | |
| We have photographs. | |
| We have proof. | |
| A time you didn't list. | |
| And, of course, the senators then all admit that they meet with Russians every day on Capitol Hill. | |
| And it was part of his job. | |
| But that doesn't matter. | |
| You were at the Mayflower Hotel in Trump's first foreign policy speech that was full of ambassadors of the whole world. | |
| But they don't say that. | |
| They say, you were there and you didn't report it. | |
| He's like, well, yeah, it's a giant room full of 10,000 people. | |
| We have the photo, ladies and gentlemen, of where the ambassador is and then where Sessions is. | |
| This is the crazy level. | |
| It's like if I went to a football game and they said, David Duke was there at the football game with you. | |
| But then he's like, 100 yards away, I'm now a David Duke supporter. | |
| This is the way they manipulate the public. | |
| It is incredible. | |
| It's beyond a nothing burger. | |
| When you see this, and they just keep pushing and pushing, because it's all they've got. | |
| The American people voted for Trump. | |
| Hillary was a corpse. | |
| She was hated. | |
| Here it is in Rob Dew's Twitter. | |
| I'm going to retweet it at Real Alex Jones. | |
| We need to get this out to everybody. | |
| There's Jeff Sessions. | |
| It's the first big foreign policy speech. | |
| It's a huge room full of people. | |
| You've got Paul Manafort right here. | |
| And then you've got the Russian ambassador. | |
| And you've got Democrats, Republicans are all, oh my gosh, here's Sessions, you know, 50 yards away or whatever. | |
| This is just the craziness of this country. | |
| And then that's catching him in a lie being with the Russians. | |
| I mean, Putin made the joke a few weeks ago talking to Megyn Kelly that I've spent less time with people involved with Trump than I've spent with you. | |
| I've spent less time with General Flynn. | |
| So if General Flynn was fired over being at a dinner with me that was public, then you should be arrested, Megyn Kelly. | |
| But enough of that. | |
| I'm not even defending Trump here. | |
| If the public doesn't know a lie, doesn't know brainwashing when they see it, and if the public wants to have the deep state overthrow the country and crash the stock market, make everybody poor to control everybody, that's their admission, that's their plan, then you deserve what you get. | |
| Here is Senator Sessions' opening testimony. | |
| You won't see this unless you share it with people. | |
| Because they're only going to take little clips and stuff out with zingers of Sessions was caught at a meeting with Russians he didn't disclose because he didn't even know. | |
| It was a public policy speech with the Republican nominee. | |
| I'm Alex Jones. | |
| This is the Infowar. | |
| Thank you very much, Chairman Burr and Ranking Member Warner for allowing me to publicly appear before your committee today. | |
| I appreciate the committee's critically important efforts to investigate Russian interference with our democratic processes. | |
| Such interference can never be tolerated, and I encourage every effort to get to the bottom of any such allegations. | |
| As you know, the Deputy Attorney General has appointed a special counsel to investigate the matters related to the Russian interference in the 2016 election. | |
| I'm here today to address several issues that have been specifically raised before this committee. | |
| And I appreciate the opportunity to respond to questions as fully as the Lord enables me to do so. | |
| But as I advise you, Mr. Chairman, and consistent with longstanding Department of Justice practice, I cannot and will not violate my duty to protect the confidential communications I have with the President. | |
| Now let me address some issues directly. | |
| I did not have any private meetings, nor do I recall any conversations with any Russian officials at the Mayflower Hotel. | |
| I did not attend any meetings at that event separate. | |
| Prior to the speech I attended by the President today, I attended a reception with my staff that included at least two dozen people and President Trump. | |
| Though I do recall several conversations that I had during that pre-speech reception, I do not have any recollection of meeting or talking to the Russian ambassador or any other Russian officials. | |
| If any brief interaction occurred in passing with the Russian ambassador during that reception, I do not remember it. | |
| After the speech, I was interviewed by the news media, there was an area for that, in a different room, and then I left the hotel. | |
| But whether I ever attended a reception where the Russian ambassador was also present is entirely beside the point of this investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 campaign. | |
| Let me state this clearly, colleagues. | |
| I have never met with or had any conversation with any Russians or any foreign officials concerning any type of interference with any campaign or election in the United States. | |
| Further, I have no knowledge of any such conversations by anyone connected to the Trump campaign. | |
| I was your colleague in this body for 20 years, at least some of you, That I participated in any collusion, that I was aware of any collusion with the Russian government to hurt this country, | |
| which I have served with honor for 35 years, or to undermine the integrity of our democratic process, is an appalling and detestable lie. | |
| Relatedly. | |
| There is the assertion that I did not answer Senator Franken's question honestly at my confirmation hearing. | |
| Colleagues, that is false. | |
| I can't say colleagues now. | |
| I'm no longer a part of this body. | |
| But former colleagues, that is false. | |
| This is what happened. | |
| Senator Franken asked me a rambling question after some six hours of testimony that included dramatic new allegations that the United States intelligence community, the US intelligence community, had advised President-elect Trump, quote, that there was a continuing exchange of information during the campaign between Trump's surrogates and intermediaries for the Russian government. | |
| Close quote. | |
| I was taken aback by that explosive allegation, which he said was being reported as breaking news that very day, in which I had not heard. | |
| I wanted to refute that immediately. | |
| Any suggestion that I was part of such an activity, I replied to Senator Franken this way, quote, Senator Franken, I'm not aware of any of those activities. | |
| I have been called a surrogate a time or two in that campaign, and I did not have communications with the Russians, and I'm unable to comment on it. | |
| Close quote. | |
| That was the context in which I was asked the question, and in that context, my answer was a fair and correct response to the charge as I understood it. | |
| I was responding to this allegation that we had met. | |
| Surrogates had been meeting with the Russians on a regular basis. | |
| It simply did not occur to me to go further than the context of the question and to list any conversations that I may have had with Russians in routine situations as I had had many routine meetings with other foreign officials. | |
| So please hear me now. | |
| And it was only in March after my confirmation hearing that a reporter asked my spokesperson whether I had ever met with any Russian officials. | |
| This was the first time that question had squarely been posed to me. | |
| On the same day, we provided that reporter with the information related to the meeting that I and my staff had held in my Senate office with Ambassador Kislyak, as well as the brief encounter in July after a speech that I had given during the convention in Cleveland, Ohio. | |
| I also provided the reporter with a list of 25 foreign ambassador meetings that I'd had during 2016. In addition, I provided supplemental testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee to explain this event. | |
| You are watching the Senate Intelligence Committee Jeff Sessions hearing on Infowars.com and the Alex Jones channel on YouTube. | |
| Let me also explain clearly the circumstances of my recusal from the investigation into the Russian interference. | |
| With the 2016 election. | |
| Please, colleagues, hear me on this. | |
| I was sworn in as Attorney General on Thursday, February 9th. | |
| The very next day, as I had promised to the Judiciary Committee I would do. | |
| At least in an early date, I met with career department officials, including a senior ethics official, to discuss some things publicly reported in the press that might have some bearing on whether or not I should recuse myself in this case. | |
| From that point... | |
| February 10th until I announced my formal recusal on March 2nd. | |
| I was never briefed on any investigative details, did not access any information about the investigation. | |
| I received only the limited information that the department's career officials determined was necessary for me to form and make a recusal decision. | |
| As such, I have no knowledge about this investigation as it is ongoing today beyond what has been publicly reported. | |
| I don't even read that carefully. | |
| And I have taken no action whatsoever with regard to any such investigation. | |
| On the date of my formal recusal, my chief of staff sent an email to the heads of relevant departments, including by name to Director Comey of the FBI, to instruct them to inform their staffs of this recusal and to advise them not to brief me or involve me in any way in any such matters. | |
| And in fact, they have not. | |
| Importantly, I recused myself. | |
| Not because of any asserted wrongdoing or any belief that I may have been involved in any wrongdoing in the campaign, but because a Department of Justice regulation, 28 CFR 45.2, I felt required it. | |
| That regulation states, in effect, that department employees should not participate in investigations of a campaign if they serve as a campaign advisor. | |
| So the scope of my recusal, however, does not and cannot interfere with my ability to oversee the Department of Justice, including the FBI, which has an $8 billion budget. | |
| I presented to the President my concerns and those of Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein about the ongoing leadership issues at the FBI as stated in my letter recommending the removal of Mr. Comey along with the Deputy Attorney General's memorandum on that issue which had been released publicly by the White House Those represent a clear statement of my views. | |
| I adopted Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein's points that he made in his memorandum and made my recommendation. | |
| It is absurd, frankly, to suggest that a recusal from a single specific investigation would render the Attorney General unable to manage the leadership of the various Department of Justice law enforcement components that conduct thousands of investigations. | |
| Finally, during his testimony, Mr. Comey discussed a conversation that he and I had about the meeting Mr. Comey had with the President. | |
| I'm happy to share with the committee my recollection of that conversation that I had with Mr. Comey. | |
| Following a routine morning threat briefing, Mr. Comey spoke to me and my chief of staff. | |
| While he did not provide me with any of the substance of his conversation with the president, Apparently the day before. | |
| Mr. Comey expressed concern about proper communications protocol with the White House and with the President. | |
| I responded. | |
| He didn't recall this, but I responded to his comment by agreeing that the FBI and the Department of Justice needed to be careful to follow department policies regarding appropriate contacts with the White House. | |
| Mr. Comey had served. | |
| In the department for better than two decades, and I was confident that he understood and would abide by the well-established rules limiting communications with the White House, especially about ongoing investigations. | |
| That's what's so important to control. | |
| My comments encouraged him to do just that, and indeed, as I understand it, he in fact did that. | |
| Our Department of Justice rules on proper communications between the Department and the White House have been in place for years. | |
| Mr. Comey well knew them. | |
| I thought and assumed correctly that he complied with them. | |
| So I'll finish with this. | |
| I recused myself from any investigation into the campaign for president, but I did not recuse myself from defending my honor against scurrilous and false allegations. | |
| At all times, throughout the course of the campaign, the confirmation process, and since becoming Attorney General, I have dedicated myself to the highest standards. | |
| I've earned a reputation for that, at home and in this body, I believe, over decades of performance. | |
| The people of this country expect an honest and transparent government, and that's what we're giving them. | |
| This president wants to focus on the people of this country to ensure they are treated fairly and kept safe. | |
| The Trump agenda is to improve the lives of the American people. | |
| I know some have different ways of achieving this and different agendas, but that is his agenda, and it's one I share. | |
| Importantly, as Attorney General, I have a responsibility to enforce the laws of this nation, to protect this country from its enemies. | |
| And to ensure the fair administration of justice. | |
| And I intend to work every day with our fine team and the superb professionals in the Department of Justice to advance the important work we have to do. | |
| These false attacks, the innuendos, the leaks, you can be sure will not intimidate me. | |
| In fact, these events have only strengthened my resolve to fulfill my duty, my duty to reduce crime, to support our federal, state and local law enforcement officers who work on our streets every day. | |
| Just last week, it was reported that overdose deaths in this country are rising faster than ever recorded. | |
| Last year was 52,000. | |
| The New York Times just estimated next year will be 62,000 overdose deaths. | |
| The murder rate is up over 10%, the largest increase since 1968. Together, we are telling the gangs, the cartels, the fraudsters, and the terrorists, we are coming after you, every one of our citizens. | |
| No matter who they are or where they live, has the right to be safe in their homes and communities. | |
| And I will not be deterred. | |
| I will not allow this great department to be deterred from its vital mission. | |
| Thank you, Mr. Chairman, Ranking Member Warner. | |
| I have a great honor to appear before you today, and I will do my best to answer your questions. | |
| General Sessions, thank you. | |
| Wow. | |
| Powerful opening statements from Attorney General Jeff Sessions basically stomping down the Senate Intelligence Committee for wasting everyone's time with these ridiculous claims of Russia collusion and Russian hacking. | |
| Let's go back to Senator Byrd. | |
| This is Infowars.com coverage of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Jeff Sessions hearings. | |
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