WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand today issued a statement on U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, saying he should be disqualified from leading the Justice Department — although not directly saying he needed to resign. She also called for a special prosecutor on the issue of Russian interference in the presidential election.
The statement follows news on Wednesday that Sessions had met with Russian contacts during Donald Trump’s campaign for the presidency. Sessions had stated during this confirmation hearing for attorney general that he had not done so.
“It’s clear that Attorney General Sessions gave false testimony under oath at his hearing. This should disqualify him from leading the Justice Department,” Gillibrand said.
“Between Attorney General Sessions’s false testimony and the Senate Intelligence Committee chairman working with the White House to kill stories about Russian contacts, we need to get all of the facts,” she added.
“I’m calling for a special prosecutor and a 9/11-style commission to get to the bottom of Russia’s ties to the Trump administration and election hacking,” she concluded.
