Paul Ryan weighed in on the Sessions story this morning in his press conference, saying that there’s still no evidence that the Trump campaign had any involvement with the Russian government and that now Democrats are lighting their hair on fire to get the media to cover the Sessions story with the Russian Ambassador:

"I think Democrats are lighting their hair on fire to get you to cover this story," Ryan says https://t.co/T5uqoA85rO pic.twitter.com/cNkOeg0I1p — CBS News (@CBSNews) March 2, 2017









In his initial answer to a question about this he echoed similar thoughts and also that of course Sessions would recuse himself if he were the subject of an investigation:

Ryan says "no evidence from … ongoing investigations that anybody in the Trump campaign" colluded with Russia https://t.co/T5uqoA85rO pic.twitter.com/YvcDbzLsss — CBS News (@CBSNews) March 2, 2017

I’m happy that Ryan spoke out on this and defended Sessions, at least partially, from the attacks being lobbed at him and didn’t add to the phony hysteria, but rather called it out as well.