{"id":1475,"date":"2017-06-13T18:57:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-13T18:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/democrats.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/13\/sessions-denial-of-third-kislyak-meeting-is-hard-to-believe\/"},"modified":"2017-06-13T18:57:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-13T18:57:00","slug":"sessions-denial-of-third-kislyak-meeting-is-hard-to-believe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/sessions-denial-of-third-kislyak-meeting-is-hard-to-believe\/","title":{"rendered":"SESSIONS\u2019 DENIAL OF THIRD KISLYAK MEETING IS HARD TO BELIEVE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta name=\"Generator\" content=\"Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)\"><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><!--\n\/* Font Definitions *\/\n@font-face\n\t{font-family:\"Cambria Math\";\n\tpanose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;}\n@font-face\n\t{font-family:Calibri;\n\tpanose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}\n@font-face\n\t{font-family:Georgia;\n\tpanose-1:2 4 5 2 5 4 5 2 3 3;}\n\/* Style Definitions *\/\np.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal\n\t{margin:0in;\n\tmargin-bottom:.0001pt;\n\tmso-add-space:auto;\n\tfont-size:10.0pt;\n\tfont-family:\"Arial\",sans-serif;}\np.MsoNormalCxSpFirst, li.MsoNormalCxSpFirst, div.MsoNormalCxSpFirst\n\t{mso-style-type:export-only;\n\tmargin:0in;\n\tmargin-bottom:.0001pt;\n\tmso-add-space:auto;\n\tfont-size:10.0pt;\n\tfont-family:\"Arial\",sans-serif;}\np.MsoNormalCxSpMiddle, li.MsoNormalCxSpMiddle, div.MsoNormalCxSpMiddle\n\t{mso-style-type:export-only;\n\tmargin:0in;\n\tmargin-bottom:.0001pt;\n\tmso-add-space:auto;\n\tfont-size:10.0pt;\n\tfont-family:\"Arial\",sans-serif;}\np.MsoNormalCxSpLast, li.MsoNormalCxSpLast, div.MsoNormalCxSpLast\n\t{mso-style-type:export-only;\n\tmargin:0in;\n\tmargin-bottom:.0001pt;\n\tmso-add-space:auto;\n\tfont-size:10.0pt;\n\tfont-family:\"Arial\",sans-serif;}\na:link, span.MsoHyperlink\n\t{mso-style-priority:99;\n\tcolor:#0563C1;\n\ttext-decoration:underline;}\na:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed\n\t{mso-style-priority:99;\n\tcolor:#954F72;\n\ttext-decoration:underline;}\np\n\t{mso-style-priority:99;\n\tmargin:0in;\n\tmargin-bottom:.0001pt;\n\tfont-size:12.0pt;\n\tfont-family:\"Times New Roman\",serif;}\nspan.EmailStyle17\n\t{mso-style-type:personal-compose;\n\tfont-family:\"Calibri\",sans-serif;\n\tcolor:windowtext;}\n.MsoChpDefault\n\t{mso-style-type:export-only;\n\tfont-family:\"Calibri\",sans-serif;}\n@page WordSection1\n\t{size:8.5in 11.0in;\n\tmargin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in;}\ndiv.WordSection1\n\t{page:WordSection1;}\n-->\n<\/style>\n<p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>\n<o:shapedefaults v:ext=\"edit\" spidmax=\"1026\" \/>\n<\/xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>\n<o:shapelayout v:ext=\"edit\">\n<o:idmap v:ext=\"edit\" data=\"1\" \/>\n<\/o:shapelayout><\/xml><![endif]--><\/p>\n<div class=\"WordSection1\">\n<p align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormalCxSpFirst\" style=\"text-align:center\"><b><span georgia=\"\" style=\"font-size:14.0pt;font-family:\"><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormalCxSpMiddle\"><b><span georgia=\"\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\">Sessions and Kislyak both <\/span><\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/05\/31\/politics\/congress-investigating-jeff-sessions-russian-ambassador-meeting\/index.html\"><b><span georgia=\"\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\">attended a small VIP reception<\/span><\/b><\/a><b><span georgia=\"\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"> before Trump&rsquo;s April 2016 foreign policy speech.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormalCxSpMiddle\"><b><span georgia=\"\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormalCxSpMiddle\" style=\"margin-left:.5in;mso-add-space:auto\"><span georgia=\"\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\">&ldquo;Investigators on the Hill are requesting additional information, including schedules from Sessions, a source with knowledge tells CNN. They are focusing on whether such a meeting took place April 27, 2016, at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, DC, where then-candidate Donald Trump was delivering his first major foreign policy address. Prior to the speech, then-Sen. Sessions and Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak attended a small VIP reception with organizers, diplomats and others.&rdquo;<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormalCxSpMiddle\"><b><span georgia=\"\" style=\"font-size:14.0pt;font-family:\"><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormalCxSpMiddle\"><b><span georgia=\"\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\">At the time of the speech, Sessions was <\/span><\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/2016-gop-primary-live-updates-and-results\/2016\/03\/donald-trump-jeff-sessions-chairman-of-national-security-committee-220220\"><b><span georgia=\"\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\">already serving<\/span><\/b><\/a><b><span georgia=\"\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"> as Chairman of Trump&rsquo;s national security advisory committee, which had only a few members.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormalCxSpMiddle\"><b><span georgia=\"\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormalCxSpMiddle\" style=\"margin-left:.5in;mso-add-space:auto\"><span georgia=\"\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\">&ldquo;Donald Trump has named Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions the chairman of his national security advisory committee, the Republican frontrunner&rsquo;s campaign announced Thursday evening.&nbsp; Sessions, who became the first senator to endorse Trump earlier this week, will advise the candidate on matters of foreign policy and national security.&nbsp; &lsquo;We need to understand the limits of our ability to intervene successfully in other nations,&rsquo; said Sessions, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, in a statement. &lsquo;It is time for a healthy dose of foreign policy realism. In the Middle East, this means forming partnerships based on shared interests, not merely overthrowing regimes in the dangerous attempt to plant democracies.&rsquo;&rdquo;<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormalCxSpLast\"><b><span georgia=\"\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><span georgia=\"\" style=\"font-family:\">Kislyak was one of <\/span> <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/nationalinterest.org\/feature\/statement-regarding-president-trumps-april-27-2016-foreign-19715\"><b><span georgia=\"\" style=\"font-family:\">only four ambassadors<\/span><\/b><\/a><b><span georgia=\"\" style=\"font-family:\"> who attended the VIP reception and Trump&rsquo;s foreign policy speech<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><span georgia=\"\" style=\"font-family:\"><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left:.5in;mso-add-space:auto\"><span georgia=\"\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\">&ldquo;Ambassador Kislyak was one of four foreign ambassadors who attended the speech that day. We seated all four in the front row during the speech in deference to their diplomatic status&hellip;The Center for the National Interest extended equal treatment to the four ambassadors attending the event and invited each to a short reception prior to Mr. Trump&rsquo;s speech.&rdquo; <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Sessions and Kislyak both attended a small VIP reception before Trump&rsquo;s April 2016 foreign policy speech. &nbsp; &ldquo;Investigators on the Hill are requesting additional information, including schedules from Sessions, a source with knowledge tells CNN. They are focusing on whether such a meeting took place April 27, 2016, at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>SESSIONS\u2019 DENIAL OF THIRD KISLYAK MEETING IS HARD TO BELIEVE - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/sessions-denial-of-third-kislyak-meeting-is-hard-to-believe\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-06-13T18:57:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/sessions-denial-of-third-kislyak-meeting-is-hard-to-believe\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/sessions-denial-of-third-kislyak-meeting-is-hard-to-believe\/\",\"name\":\"SESSIONS\u2019 DENIAL OF THIRD KISLYAK MEETING IS HARD TO BELIEVE - 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