Whitaker: It Is Not Sessions Job ‘to Anticipate’ What Franken ‘Was Asking Him or Should Have Asked’

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WHITAKER: "Well, again, I mean, I appreciate my colleagues perspective but I will tell you that as you look at the testimony and the questioning from Senator Franken, it was not Jeff Sessions' job to anticipate what Senator Franken was asking him or should have asked him. If Senator Franken wanted to go outside the context of the campaign, the 'Trump for president' campaign and its contacts and Senator Sessions' contacts with Russian officials, he could have. Senator Franken knows that as part of the Armed Services Committee job that Senator Sessions at the time had, that he would be meeting with ambassadors and quite possibly could have met with the Russian ambassador."