The BIGGEST moment in the Sessions hearing—not coincidentally, the ONE way Sessions changed his story on Russia—is him NOW saying he told Papadopoulos he could NEVER be a Trump surrogate. He and Trump know what's coming and want a RECORD of saying Papadopoulos WASN'T their agent.
2/ It's NOT a coincidence that—after Papadopoulos' plea—the ONE new fact Sessions will add to the ENTIRETY of his Russia story is that at a meeting at which TRUMP was present Sessions told Papadopoulos he was not authorized to speak to FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS. So—guess what's coming?
3/ This is a retroactive play to save himself and Trump over the POST-March 2016 contacts we now know Papadopoulos had with foreign governments on Russia, and a PREEMPTIVE attempt to protect himself and Trump from this week's and *coming* revelations about Papadopoulos in GREECE.
4/ What Sessions and Trump are doing to save themselves is so transparent it becomes a giant slap in the fact of all America that Republicans in the House today just sat there and one after another thanked Sessions for his service. The man is a lawbreaker, and an unrepentant one.
5/ So pundits on TV tonight can say that Sessions was "trying to make himself look good" by remembering one new fact about Russia and having it be an exculpatory one, but a look at WHAT that fact in particular WAS confirms that Sessions and Trump are working the long game here.
PS/ Summer reports by FNC and The Daily Caller would've jogged Sessions' memory on what he allegedly said on March 31, 2016 (and the fact of a meeting that day). But they all say he shut down Papadopoulos on RUSSIA only. TODAY Sessions said ALL foreign governments. Remember that.
