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| Trump-Russia investigation: Jeff Sessions faces questions by Robert Mueller's team | Trump-Russia investigation: Jeff Sessions faces questions by Robert Mueller's team |
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| Special counsel Robert Mueller's team has questioned Attorney General Jeff Sessions as a part of its investigation into Russia's meddling in the 2016 election, a Justice Department spokeswoman told the New York Times. | Special counsel Robert Mueller's team has questioned Attorney General Jeff Sessions as a part of its investigation into Russia's meddling in the 2016 election, a Justice Department spokeswoman told the New York Times. |
| Mr Sessions was questioned for several hours last week, marking the first known time that a member of President Donald Trump's cabinet has been interviewed as a part of the probe. | Mr Sessions was questioned for several hours last week, marking the first known time that a member of President Donald Trump's cabinet has been interviewed as a part of the probe. |
| The interview follows Mr Sessions' decision to recuse himself from matters related to investigations into the 2016 election, including Justice Department investigations into Russia's influence. Mr Sessions was one of the first sitting members of Congress to publicly support Mr Trump's run for president, and had served as a high profile surrogate and adviser for the campaign. | |
| News of Mr Sessions' recusal broke in March, and followed after revelations that the attorney general had failed to tell Congress about two meetings he had with former Russian ambassador to the US Sergey Kislyak during the campaign. | |
| Mr Trump reportedly tried to convince Mr Sessions not to recuse himself from the 2016 investigations after learning he was considering doing so, and enlisted the help of top White House lawyer Donald F McGahn II to lobby the attorney general against doing so. | |
| Since the recusal, and in light of the subsequent firing of former FBI Director James Comey, Mr Trump has said that he may not have tapped Mr Sessions to lead the Justice Department in the first place had he known. | |
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