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Jeff Sessions: “I would not commit, at this time, to appointing a special counsel when I am not aware of a precise factual situation…”

On the recordJanuary 9, 2017
I would not commit, at this time, to appointing a special counsel when I am not aware of a precise factual situation that would be in play.
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Jeff Sessions
Republican · Alabama

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Sessions discusses the conditions under which he would appoint a special counsel.

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