Attorney General Jeff Sessions said on Thursday that the current investigation into Russia’s election interference has taken on “a life of its now.”
Sessions responded to a House Appropriations panel about Republican accusations of surveillance abuse saying that the Mueller investigation proves that it’s a bad idea to appoint special counsels “willy-nilly.”
“I do not think we need to willy-nilly appoint special counsels,” he said, after listening to a laundry list of frustrations aired by West Virginia Republican Congressman Evan Jenkins.
“As we can see, it can really take on a life of its own.” He said that the ongoing Mueller probe into President Trump “needs to conclude” in order to let him focus on North Korea, the U.S.-Mexico border and other world negotiations.
Sessions was often on the hot seat with President Trump because of his decision to recuse himself from the Russian collusion probe, and has always felt that the Mueller special counsel appointment would never have happened if Rod Rosenstein, a man of questionable integrity who appointed Mueller as special counsel, hadn’t been in charge at…
