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    McCaskill’s Russian Flub

    by Eugene Kiely Mar 02, 2017 3 minutes

    Sen. Claire McCaskill called on Attorney General Jeff Sessions to resign for failing to disclose during his Senate confirmation hearing that as a senator he met twice with the Russian ambassador in 2016. As a point of contrast, McCaskill said, she had “no call from, or meeting with, the Russian ambassador. Ever.” As a point of fact, that turned out to be false.

    Within a few hours, McCaskill that she did meet with Sergey Kislyak, the Russian ambassador to the United States, four years ago

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