Democrats: Jeff Sessions should resign if he lied about third meeting with Russia

Published June 1, 2017 4:29pm ET



Two Senate Democrats say Attorney General Jeff Sessions should resign if it turns out he lied about a reported third meeting with Russian Ambassador Sergei Kislyak during the presidential campaign.

“We served with the Attorney General in the Senate and on the Judiciary Committee for many years,” Sens. Pat Leahy, D-Vt., and Al Franken, D-Minn., said in a joint statement Thursday. “We know he would not tolerate dishonesty if he were in our shoes.”

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