He’ll say everything is swell, your so-called government will wipe the dust off their hands and say “well, glad that’s behind us now” and the Republicans will continue to strip your country for parts.
Anyone on the Trump side with two brain cells to rub together* will stay as far away from those hearing (and the related investigations) as they possibly can. As David Brooks noted on the PBS News Hour Friday, the Whitewater investigation went on for 7 years.
JohnT, the article you linked is about how Atty. Gen. Sessions will not be testifying before the House and Senate Appropriations subcommittees; Assistant AG Rod Rosenstein will testify in his stead (which is mentioned in the text I quoted in the OP).
AFAIK, Sessions is still scheduled to speak before the SIC next week.
When I started this thread, I didn’t want to quote a wall of text and so I didn’t post this bit:
He’s gonna say “I thought you already knew I was lying after the first time I told you I didn’t meet with the Russians. Are we going to have to do this every time?”.
I see on the AP now that AG Sessions is scheduled to testify Tuesday; still no definitive word on whether it will be public or private testimony. I’m keeping my fingers crossed that it’s public.
I think it should be private. Not because it’s anything secret, but because any time you have a bunch of politicians conducting a hearing in public their entire focus becomes saying things that get them on TV and/or which they can use for their political campaigns. (You saw this with the Comey hearings, especially K. Harris, who reeled off a whole bunch of “questions” that she knew Comey wasn’t going to answer, and she barely paused for him to decline to do so.)
I think Sessions has an obligation to testify to Congress, but does not have an obligation to allow himself to be used a political prop.
I’ve been wondering this ever since Comey’s testimony: why not both? Good ol’ boy Jeff could get his public showing and the SIC could gut him in private.