Sessions wasn't "demolished"... Harris kept rudely interrupting and berating him before he could answer her questions. She was finally slapped down and scolded by the Committee chair and instructed to let Sessions answer. She made a complete ass out of herself. A textbook example of how NOT to question a witness!
Originally Posted by lustylad
He couldn't/wouldn't give a STRAIGHT answer.
He kept filibustering and dancing around like a little organ grinder monkey.
Kamala is his worst nightmare.
A smart articulate woman of color.
Sessions can't invoke executive privilege, but he's using it a lot.
http://www.latimes.com/politics/wash...htmlstory.html
He's playing both sides against the middle: for reasons he cannot explain, by authority he can't invoke, he can't answer the questions because he doesn't remember the answers and even if he did, he couldn't answer them because reasons. Or vice-versa.
The fog of bureaucracy can't obscure what he's up to: evading the truth.
Example:
WARNER: Yes, sir. My understanding was that the president's son in law Jared Kushner was at that meeting as well.
SESSIONS: I believe he was, yes.
WARNER: You don't recollect when he had the conversations with the ambassador?
SESSIONS: I do not.
WARNER: To the best of your memory you had no conversation with him at that meet something.
SESSIONS: I don't recall that, senator. Certainly I can assure you nothing improper if I had a conversation with him. It's conceivable, but I don't remember it.
WARNER: There was nothing in your notes or memory so when you had a chance and you did correct the record about the other two sessions in response to senator Franken and Leahy, this didn't pop into your memory with the caution you had to report that this session as well.
SESSIONS: I guess I can say that I possibly had a meeting, but I still do not recall it. I did not in any way fail to record something in my testimony or in my subsequent letter intentionally false.
Poor ole Beau, caught between the need to remember nothing (thus looking like an idiot) and the need to admit just enough to dodge perjury charges when the real facts come out.
Originally Posted by gfejunkie
Originally Posted by gfejunkie
