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  • >>> THIS IS AN NBC NEWS SPECIAL

  • REPORT.

  • THE SESSIONS HEARING.

  • HERE'S LESTER HOLT.

  • >> GOOD DAY, EVERYONE.

  • WE'RE ABOUT TO WITNESS THE

  • LATEST TURN IN THE INVESTIGATION

  • INTO WHETHER THERE ARE TIES

  • BETWEEN PRESIDENT TRUMP'S

  • CAMPAIGN AND RUSSIAN OFFICIALS.

  • IN JUST A FEW MOMENTS ATTORNEY

  • GENERAL JEFF SESSIONS WILL

  • TESTIFY BEFORE THE SENATE

  • INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE IN AN

  • OPEN SESSION.

  • MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE ARE

  • EXPECTED TO QUESTION SESSIONS

  • ABOUT THE FIRING OF FBI DIRECTOR

  • JAMES COMEY, ABOUT HIS RUSSIAN

  • CONTACTS DURING THE CAMPAIGN AND

  • HIS DECISION BY SESSIONS TO

  • RECUSE HIMSELF FROM THE RUSSIA

  • INVESTIGATION.

  • OUR TEAM IS STANDING BY WITH

  • FULL COVERAGE OF THIS DAY.

  • NBC'S PETER ALEXANDER IS IN THE

  • HEARING ROOM.

  • PETER, SET THE STAGE.

  • A WEEK AFTER THE COMEY HEARING.

  • >> YEAH, LESTER.

  • THIS IS GOING TO BE ANOTHER

  • HIGH-TENSION DAY OF TESTIMONY

  • EXPECTED FROM THE ATTORNEY

  • GENERAL, JEFF SESSIONS.

  • TO GIVE YOU A SENSE, THIS IS THE

  • FIRST TIME THAT HE IS GOING TO

  • BE TESTIFYING IN AN OPEN HEARING

  • SINCE HE WAS CONFIRMED.

  • THAT'S ABOUT FIVE MONTHS AGO.

  • WE'LL DRILL DOWN ON SOME OF THE

  • LIKELY QUESTIONS HE'LL FACE.

  • AMONG THEM, IF HE RECUSED

  • HIMSELF FROM THE RUSSIA

  • INVESTIGATION, WHY DID HE STILL

  • TAKE PART IN RECOMMENDING THE

  • FIRING OF THE FBI DIRECTOR,

  • JAMES COMEY.

  • BEYOND THAT, HIS MEETINGS, HIS

  • CONTACTS WITH THE RUSSIAN

  • AMBASSADOR, SERGEY KISLYAK.

  • HE INITIALLY WAS NOT FORTHCOMING

  • ABOUT TWO OF THEM.

  • THERE IS SOME SUSPICION THERE

  • MAY HAVE BEEN A THIRD MEETING AS

  • WELL TO HAVE TAKEN PLACE DURING

  • THE CAMPAIGN.

  • WHAT WILL HE SAY ABOUT THAT.

  • BEYOND THAT, HOW DID HE TAKE

  • JAMES COMEY'S COMMENTS TO HIM

  • SUGGESTING THAT COMEY DIDN'T

  • WANT TO BE LEFT ALONE WITH

  • PRESIDENT TRUMP.

  • DID HE ACT ON THAT, WHAT ACTIONS

  • DID HE TAKE.

  • THOSE WILL BE AMONG THE

  • QUESTIONS THAT SESSIONS IS

  • PRESSED ON DURING THE COURSE OF

  • THIS HEARING TODAY.

  • >> ALL RIGHT, PETER, AS WE WATCH

  • MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE SLOWLY

  • FILE IN AND TAKE THEIR SEATS AND

  • CONFERRING WITH STAFF THERE,

  • LET'S CONTINUE AROUND THE HORN.

  • OUR POLITICAL DIRECTOR AND

  • MODERATOR OF "MEET THE PRESS"

  • CHUCK TODD IS IN OUR WASHINGTON

  • BUREAU.

  • CHUCK, WILL WE LARGELY BE

  • LOOKING FOR A REBUTTAL TO WHAT

  • COMEY SAID HERE?

  • >> WE'LL SEE IF IT'S A

  • FULL-FLEDGED REBUTTAL.

  • I THINK JEFF SESSIONS HAS A

  • COUPLE OF DIFFERENT CHALLENGES

  • AND THEY MAY BE IN COMPETITION

  • WITH EACH OTHER.

  • ON ONE HAND HE HAS TO

  • RE-ESTABLISH HIS OWN CREDIBILITY

  • TO LEAD A JUSTICE DEPARTMENT

  • THAT FEELS LIKE IT'S BEEN BADLY

  • DAMAGED POLITICALLY, BADLY

  • DAMAGED BY THE TESTIMONY FROM

  • JAMES COMEY, BADLY DAMAGED BY

  • SOME OF THE ACTIONS THAT PERHAPS

  • THE ATTORNEY GENERAL DID

  • INADVERTENTLY OR NOT WHEN IT

  • COMES TO THOSE LACK OF REPORTING

  • THOSE MEETINGS ON RUSSIA.

  • BUT HE'S ALSO GOT A CREDIBILITY

  • PROBLEM WITH HIS BOSS, THE

  • PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES,

  • WHO IS ANGRY AT HIM FOR RECUING

  • HIMSELF IN THE FIRST PLACE SO

  • HE'S GOT DIFFERENT MASTERS HE'S

  • TRYING TO FEED.

  • HE'S GOT A JUSTICE DEPARTMENT

  • UNDER SIEGE AND HE'S GOT TO

  • REPRESENT THE CAREER FOLKS

  • THERE, AND AT THE SAME TIME

  • SOMEHOW RE-ESTABLISH CREDIBILITY

  • WITH HIS BOSS.

  • I DON'T KNOW IF YOU CAN DO BOTH

  • AT THE SAME TIME.

  • >> ALL RIGHT, CHUCK.

  • OUR CHIEF WHITE HOUSE

  • CORRESPONDENT, HALLIE JACKSON,

  • IS WATCHING ALL THIS.

  • HALLIE, AFTER THE COMEY HEARING,

  • THE PRESIDENT ESSENTIALLY

  • DROPPED THE MIKE, SAID THAT HE

  • GOT A CLEAN BILL OF HEALTH,

  • THERE WAS NO INVESTIGATION AND

  • ALL BUT DECLARED IT OVER.

  • HOW CLOSELY WILL THE WHITE HOUSE

  • BE WATCHING THIS PARTICULAR

  • SESSION?

  • >> WELL, THE PRESIDENT WON'T BE

  • WATCHING IT, WE KNOW, LESTER,

  • FROM HERE AT THE WHITE HOUSE AND

  • THAT IS BECAUSE HE IS ON AIR

  • FORCE ONE RIGHT NOW HEADED TO

  • WISCONSIN.

  • THAT PLANE DOES HAVE A

  • TELEVISION, SO IT IS LIKELY THE

  • PRESIDENT COULD SEE THE

  • BEGINNING OF THE TESTIMONY

  • BEFORE HE HEADS TO MILWAUKEE TO

  • TALK WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT.

  • I THINK THAT'S SYMBOLIC HERE.

  • THE PRESIDENT, THIS WHITE HOUSE,

  • WANTS TO BE TALKING ABOUT

  • ANYTHING ELSE OTHER THAN WHAT WE

  • ARE DISCUSSING.

  • THEY WANT TO TALK ABOUT HEALTH

  • CARE, AS THE PRESIDENT HOSTED

  • REPUBLICAN MEMBERS OF CONGRESS,

  • REPUBLICAN SENATORS HERE FOR

  • LUNCH EARLIER TODAY.

  • THEY WANT TO TALK TAX REFORM.

  • THEY WANT TO TALK VETERANS

  • ISSUES AS WELL.

  • BUT THIS, WHAT WE ARE WATCHING

  • NOW ON CAPITOL HILL, CONTINUES

  • TO BE THE DOMINANT FORCE AND THE

  • DOMINANT THEME DRIVING A LOT OF

  • IT.

  • THAT IS FRUSTRATING TO THE

  • PRESIDENT.

  • YOU HEAR ABOUT IT BOTH PRIVATELY

  • BEHIND CLOSED DOORS AND HEAR

  • ABOUT IT PUBLICLY AS THE

  • PRESIDENT TWEETS LIKE HE DID

  • TODAY ABOUT WHAT HE DESCRIBES AS

  • AN AGENDA OF HATE COMING FROM

  • MEMBERS OF THE MEDIA.

  • AS FAR AS THE STRATEGY HERE, A

  • LOT OF THIS LOOKS SIMILAR TO

  • WHAT WE SAW JUST LAST THURSDAY.

  • THERE IS NOT NECESSARILY A

  • COUNTER STRATEGY IN THE SENSE

  • THAT WE SAW WITH JAMES COMEY, AN

  • EXPLICIT SORT OF OPPOSITION TO

  • WHAT YOU WERE HEARING IN THAT

  • SEAT.

  • INSTEAD IT'S GOING TO BE A LOT

  • OF BACKING UP WHAT SESSIONS HAD

  • TO SAY FROM ALLIES OF THE

  • PRESIDENT, POINTING TO HIS

  • EAGERNESS TO TESTIFY AS AN

  • INDICATION THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP