The Russian connection

Attorney General Jeff Sessions cannot survive. He told a porky in his Senate confirmation. He said he had had no contacts with the Russians, yet now we hear he met with the Russian ambassador to Washington twice during the election campaign when he was in Trump's team. That Sergei Kislyak, with his double chins, gets around, doesn't he? Chatting away with retired Lieutenant-General Mike Flynn when Trump had him lined up in his mind to be his national security adviser. And meeting with Jeff Sessions when he was clearly going to be Trump's attorney general. I wonder if old Kislyak got a bonus from Putin for all his secret sessions with Sessions and Flynn! Well, they must have been secret because neither Sessions nor Flynn seemed eager to speak about the contacts. Flynn denied he had said a word about lifting sanctions against Moscow in his chats with Kislyak when he was questioned by the FBI, and then told Mike Pence the same thing before the vice president went on television to support. him. Although he HAD raised sanctions. So he was forced to resign. Now Sessions is going through the same verbal contortions.He's not denying having met with Kislyak but he denies misleading the Senate when he said he hadn't had contacts with Russians. That's a tricky one to explain. The thing about politics is that when an issue gets a bit of momentum behind it, and the media start to call for someone's head to roll, there is a sort of inevitability about the way it's going to go. So Sessions will continue to sound outraged that his integrity has been called into question, and his critics will get more and more heated about the way the Senate was "lied to", and before you can say quack quack, Donald will make a phone call: "Jeff, sorry buddy, but you've got to go. It's curtains for you."