When Washington, DC woke up Sunday morning, politicos were greeted with the news that Attorney General Jeff Sessions was going to testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee. It would be a change of plans since Sessions was scheduled for a public hearing in front of the Senate Budget Committee, where he was expected to be pelted with Russia questions. It’s the Intelligence Committee that is handling the Senate’s Russia investigation, but according to CNN’s John King on Inside Politics, a private hearing could be an “obstruction of justice.”
“But as we speak this Sunday morning, he was scheduled to testify publicly before budget committees where he would be asked these questions,” King asked to his stacked panel of liberal journalists. “Do we know if he now say: “I’m not going to do that, I’m sending my deputy. I’ll go to the Senate Intelligence Committee,” but will he do that in public or private?”