U-S Senator Amy Klobuchar is calling for Attorney General Jeff Sessions to take quick action to address reports that he met last year with a Russian ambassador. Sessions, who was a surrogate and adviser to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign at the time of the alleged meetings, has said he never talked with any Russian officials about the campaign. Klobuchar says she wants Sessions to immediately appear before the Judiciary Committee to answer questions to get to the bottom of whether he simply misled the committee or he lied.” And Klobuchar says the timing of the alleged meetings raises many questions…
Several other Minnesota Democrats, including Representatives Betty McCollum, Keith Ellison and Rick Nolan and Senator Al Franken have called for further investigation or for Sessions to recuse himself from an investigation into Trump’s alleged ties to Russia.