Rep. Schiff: Congress Can’t Let Jeff Sessions’ Non-Answers Stand

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SCHIFF: "Really two things jumped out at me. The first was the degree to which the attorney general really corroborated what Director Comey said, that is he testified today that in fact during that meeting at the white House everyone -- he wouldn't say what the president said but they all filed out of the room. Obviously that's not going to happen unless the president told everyone to leave but director Comey. He also I think confirmed that he was either the last or among the very last to leave the room and did hesitate and that Director Comey followed up the next day and said essentially that he was uncomfortable about what took place, so he had to know because of the Russia investigation that that would be what would make him uncomfortable. As he testified today it's not in and of itself improper for a president to talk to an FBI director, it is if it's about a pending case so the fact that the director was uncomfortable ought to have been a clear signal about why he was uncomfortable so the degree to which he corroborated Comey stood out to me, but more than that the degree to which he avoided really answering questions about whether his letter, rod Rosenstein's memo were a pretext and they knew they were a pretext for the Comey firing, and from my perspective Congress can not let those non-answers stand. We're going to go have to press to get answers, and we're going to have to force them to invoke privilege if that's what they intend to do, and I think if that privilege is being used to cloak information that would indicate whether or not obstruction was going on, we will have to pierce that privilege and do what's necessary to get that testimony."