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Pence Defends AG Sessions and His Russia Comments

by Associated Press

   Vice President Mike Pence says he did not know of Attorney General Jeff
   Sessions' meeting with the Russian ambassador but dismissed the
   criticism of the top law enforcement official.
   Speaking to reporters in Wisconsin, Pence said he and President Donald
   Trump have full confidence in Sessions. Pence called him a "man of
   intergrity.''
   Pence says Sessions' answer to the Senate Judiciary Committee while
   under oath was "clearly unintentional.''
   Pence says Sessions could have answered the question more clearly. He
   says Sessions "corrected the record appropriately, and we're just very
   confident in his ability to lead this agency and respect his decision
   to recuse himself.''