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Speaker 1: dot org. Today, Bloomberg LA hosting Grasso discusses whether Attorney

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Speaker 1: General Jeff's Sessions perjured himself during his confirmation hearings earlier

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Speaker 1: this year, as well as sessions scheduled testimony before the

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Speaker 1: Senate Intelligence Committee. Today, she speaks of Andrew Kenton Jettish

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Speaker 1: Sugarman from the Fordham University School of Law. Andrew Sessions

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Speaker 1: was originally scheduled to peer before the House and Senate

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Speaker 1: Appropriation Subcommittee. He decided he wanted to appear before the

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Speaker 1: Senate Intelligence Committee, and he also decided that he wanted

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Speaker 1: it to be public testimony. Is that a surprise to you?

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Speaker 1: Sessions apparently canceled three times on going back to the

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Speaker 1: Hill ever since his confirmation hearing, reportedly be because he's

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Speaker 1: been concerned about getting grilled by Democrats about his misstatements

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Speaker 1: about Russia. Um, what what I read was that he

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Speaker 1: had He had initially asked for the Intelligence Committee session

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Speaker 1: to be closed, but the pressure from Democrats on the

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Speaker 1: committee led it to be an open one. Um. So

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Speaker 1: I think he probably would rather not testify publicly, but

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Speaker 1: it looks like he's going to have to. And Jed,

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Speaker 1: let's start with the encounters with the Russians. Is it

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Speaker 1: perjury if he did have additional encounters, Well, I think it.

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Speaker 1: I think it. I actually think it was perjury and

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Speaker 1: false testimony. Back in January, if you look at the

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Speaker 1: sequence of events of precisely what happened in January, he

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Speaker 1: was first asked by Senator Franken a general question about

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Speaker 1: Russian contacts of the campaign, and he changed He answered

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Speaker 1: a question he wasn't asked, which is to say he

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Speaker 1: didn't have any Russian contacts. Now, then what happened was

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Speaker 1: he had an opportunity to and if it happens all

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Speaker 1: the time, people will look at their testimony and said,

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Speaker 1: you know what I said something misleading. He had that opportunity,

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Speaker 1: and in fact, Senator lay He asked him a question,

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Speaker 1: did you have any meetings about the campaign the sixteen campaign,

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Speaker 1: and he just answered flatly no. And it turns out

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Speaker 1: that it was only by stretching by by UM I

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Speaker 1: think misinterpreting those questions that he is able to um

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Speaker 1: make any kind of claim that he didn't lie. I

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Speaker 1: think when you take those two events together, he already misrepresented.

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Speaker 1: So let me say that one is a question of perjury,

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Speaker 1: but there's another statute for false statements and false testimony,

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Speaker 1: and those are two different um criminal violations. I think

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Speaker 1: it's clear that he's given false testimony already. So this

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Speaker 1: third question, I think them not puts him in even

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Speaker 1: greater legal jeopardy. He's already made a false statement, hasn't

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Speaker 1: and failed to change it in time this third meeting, Uh,

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Speaker 1: it really puts him in intense scrutiny for a much

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Speaker 1: clearer case of perjury and false testimony. As for the

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Speaker 1: law school professor's dead Sugarman and Andrew Kent speaking with

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Law host joom Grass. So you can listen to

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Law to chebas As, seventy investors are suing the

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Speaker 1: in early April and are seeking four hundred million dollars

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