U-S Senator Al Franken is questioning whether U-S Attorney General Jeff Sessions is trustworthy and says that’s important because Sessions “is the number one law enforcement official in our country and he seems to be unable to tell the truth when appearing before the judiciary committee and elsewhere.” Franken sent a letter to the Attorney General Thursday asking for answers about Sessions’ ties to the Trump Administration and Russian operatives. Asked why he would believe Sessions would tell the truth now, after claiming Sessions has been inconsistent with his answers in the past, Franken says he’s “not certain that [Sessions] would, but these inconsistencies are so impossible to explain that I think he would be put into a very difficult box, because it simply doesn’t make any sense.” President Trump today says he will *not* rule out firing U-S Attorney General Jeff Sessions, but for the opposite reason that Senator Franken takes issue with. The president wants an investigation to focus on alleged wrongdoing by the Hillary Clinton campaign. To that Franken says: “the president shouldn’t be telling the justice department who they should be going after. That’s completely improper, the president should know that, but evidently doesn’t.” Here is MNN’s Scott Peterson’s interview with Sen. Franken:
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