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| Comey hearing: Sessions to testify in response | |
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| US Attorney General Jeff Sessions says he will appear before a Senate panel in response to James Comey's testimony. | US Attorney General Jeff Sessions says he will appear before a Senate panel in response to James Comey's testimony. |
| He will appear before the Senate intelligence committee on Tuesday, he announced in a letter. | |
| He said the decision had been made "in light of Mr Comey's recent testimony". | |
| Former FBI director Mr Comey told the panel this week that he had asked Mr Sessions to "prevent any future direct communication between the president and me". | |
| Mr Comey also said there were a "variety of reasons" why Mr Sessions's involvement in the investigation of Russia's alleged interference in the 2016 election campaign would be problematic. | |
| However, he said he was unable to speak about them in an open session of the hearing. | |
| The attorney general removed himself from an FBI inquiry into alleged Russian meddling in the US election back in March, after it emerged he had met Moscow's envoy during last year's White House race. | |
| In his letter on Saturday, Mr Sessions said, "It is important that I have an opportunity to address these matters in the appropriate forum" which he said he believed to be the Senate intelligence committee. | |
| Mr Sessions had been due to appear before the Senate and House appropriations subcommittees on Tuesday. He said in the letter deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein would attend instead. |