Jeff Sessions repeatedly refused to answer questions before the Senate Intelligence Committee

WASHINGTON ― Attorney General Jeff Sessions repeatedly refused to answer questions before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday ― not because he or President Donald Trump were asserting executive privilege, but just in case the president might want to do so in the future, Sessions said.

“I am protecting the right of the president to assert it if he chooses,” Sessions told the committee.

The attorney general, a longtime Trump ally, said he himself could not invoke executive privilege to refrain from discussing certain matters related to the executive branch and the president. He said that Trump could do so, if he chose, but that the president had not done so.

Still, Sessions repeatedly declined to talk about his past conversations with Trump and other top officials, even while claiming he wasn’t invoking executive privilege.

Similar exchanges happened over and over again, as senators pressed Sessions on the firing of former FBI Director James Comey, an investigation into Russian meddling in the U.S. election and the attorney general’s recusal from that investigation.

Democrats grew frustrated with Sessions’ failure to answer their questions…

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