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James Lankford: ‘Every unnamed source story somehow gets a hearing’

By Pete Kasperowicz

Published June 13, 2017 9:31pm ET

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James Lankford: ‘Every unnamed source story somehow gets a hearing’ — Lankford also dismissed the criticism from Democrats that Sessions was not reading out his private conversations with President Trump, and said former Attorney General Eric Holder routinely declined to detail his conversations with President Barack Obama. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File) | Sue Ogrocki

Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., lamented on Tuesday that the days of elected lawmakers are increasingly being filled up with hearings to explore the latest round of stories about President Trump and Russia, stories that are often based on unnamed sources.

“It does seem as well that every unnamed source story somehow gets a hearing,” he said at Tuesday’s Senate Intelligence Committee hearing with Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

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