WASHINGTON – Attorney General Jeff Sessions was pressed by House Democrats Tuesday on new questions about Russian contacts with Donald Trump’s presidential campaign — and by Republicans on almost anything but that.
Sessions appeared as the House Judiciary Committee began an ostensibly routine oversight hearing that wasn’t routine at all. Instead, it highlighted a growing, and perhaps insurmountable, partisan dispute over the Russia investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller and Trump-backed demands to reopen past inquiries into Hillary Clinton, his campaign opponent.
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