- Two Republican congressmen are calling for Attorney General Jeff Sessions to step down, saying he is unable to control leaks coming out of the FBI.
- Sessions' resignation would clear the way for Trump to appoint a new attorney general who is not recused from the Russia probe — and could fire Robert Mueller.
- Trump has repeatedly expressed displeasure with Sessions and was reportedly asking aides last summer how it would play politically if he fired him.
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2 GOP lawmakers are calling on Sessions to resign — and it looks like a ploy to kill the Russia probe
Two Republican congressmen are calling for Attorney General Jeff Sessions to step down, saying he is unable to control leaks coming out of the FBI.
Republican Reps. Mark Meadows and Jim Jordan on Thursday called on Attorney General Jeff Sessions to resign in an op-ed published by the conservative Washington Examiner, citing leaks coming out of the FBI they said Sessions appeared unable to "control."
Sessions, they wrote, should resign now that he has proven he can't control the FBI.
They may have another motive
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The congressmen, who have asserted that there is "no evidence" of collusion and have questioned why Mueller's probe is taking so long, may have another motive. If Sessions resigned, a new attorney general who is not recused from the Russia investigation as Sessions is would need to be appointed.
Sessions recused himself early last year after it was revealed that he had failed to disclose that he had at least two meetings with Russia's ambassador to the US during the campaign.
That new attorney general could fire Mueller, since Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein has already signaled that he has no plans to do it himself.
The request for emails between the White House and the DOJ related to Sessions' recusal could help Mueller determine why Trump has expressed anger at Sessions relinquishing control over the campaign-related investigations to Rosenstein in March.
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