Democratic House Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-California) has issued a statement calling on Attorney General Jeff Sessions to resign:

Jeff Sessions lied under oath during his confirmation hearing before the Senate. Under penalty of perjury, he told the Senate Judiciary Committee, ‘I have been called a surrogate at a time or two in that campaign and I did not have communications with the Russians.’ We now know that statement is false. Now, after lying under oath to Congress about his own communications with the Russians, the Attorney General must resign. Sessions is not fit to serve as the top law enforcement officer of our country and must resign.”

In addition, Pelosi has called for an expanded probe into the Trump Administration dealings with Russia:

There must be an independent, bipartisan, outside commission to investigate the Trump political, personal and financial connections to the Russians.”

Pelosi’s call comes after the Washington Post reported that Sessions spoke once privately with Russia’s ambassador to the United States, Sergey Kislyak. He also spoke with Kislyak and other ambassadors during an event in July. During his confirmation hearings, Sessions denied having dealings with the Russians during the campaign. It is evident that Sessions may have perjured himself.

The Trump-Russia scandal continues to widen despite widespread obfuscation on the part of Congressional Republicans.

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