BREAKING: Democrats express frustration over Jeff Sessions' refusal to answer questions in Senate intel hearing

Having trouble viewing this email? | View it in your browser   In response to questioning from Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said during Tuesday's Senate Intelligence Committee hearing that while President Trump had not asserted executive privilege, he is "protecting the right of the president to assert it if he chooses" by declining to discuss his conversations with the president about the firing of FBI director James Comey. Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., told the attorney general earlier in the hearing that he was "impeding this investigation." In a testy exchange with Sessions, Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said, "Americans don't want to hear that answers to questions are privileged and off limits or that they can't be provided in public, or that it would be 'inappropriate' for witnesses to tell us what they know." FOR MORE ON THIS STORY, GO TO:   USATODAY.COM     Help | Advertise | Home Delivery | Privacy Policy - Your California Privacy Rights     © 2017 USA TODAY, a division of Gannett Satellite Information Network, LLC. 7950 Jones Branch Drive, McLean, VA 22108