"I don't recall".
I expect my employees to remember what they have done. If they can't remember, they need to take notes and be able to accurately describe their work to me as well as their reasoning behind decision and their view of the results of those decisions. Sessions is a joke.
Very interesting that he couldn't remember one meeting that we know happened, but remembered another that McCain asked him about on the same day and told him all about it.
FoxNews isnte even discussing the testimony 10 minutes after it ends. Hilarious.
And McCain basically implied he was lying by saying it wasn't something he'd ever shown much interest in and then went on to list 4-5 other Russia FP issues and Sessions said he didn't cover that. Odd meeting to cover just one subject.
I don't think Sessions and Trump personally colluded with Russia. I'm not ruling it out, but I think it is pretty unlikely. I believe, however, that they knew surrogates were back-channeling Russia, and they might not even know what all they desperately tried to ignore.
Trump and Sessions don't want those from the campaign that did talk explicitly with the Russians to end up flipping. If there are intercepted communications of Page/Manafort/Stone they don't want to be looked at as having responsibility for those people's actions. Notice how Sessions claimed he didn't know all the members of his own team and said they weren't very organized, not a cohesive group, and didn't really have meetings other than a few people here and there. That's to distance himself, The President, and the campaign from potential actions of other surrogates.
For all the times the GOP has gone nuts when a Clinton said I do not recall, I don't remember, etc -- it was interesting to see Sessions use that on pretty much every question he didn't want to answer. Unless it happened to involve the WH, and then invented an imaginary form of EP that you, can invoke by referring to a DOJ "policy" that he claims is long standing but can neither quote, explain, list a citation for or any other form of proving that it is policy.
Sessions probably said some variation of "I don't recall/remember" in excess of 50 times, and honestly it was probably close to 100+ times. There is a reason for this legal trick -- he doesn't want to answer with a denial in case there is an intelligence intercept, witness, or evidence that contradicts his testimony. If you just act like you don't remember it isn't technically perjury is the idea behind that. Later when confronted with evidence you can then claim to have your memory "refreshed" and then spin it in a new direction. Habitual liars do this under oath. Trump is notorious for responding this way under oath in depositions, and obviously Bill Clinton did it all the time.
It goes without saying that those standing up for this destruction of norms and condoning the lying, corruption, obstruction, and compromise of justice and our nation's security are never allowed to complain about a Clinton or a Democrat again. You can't ignore something worse in your own party and then claim to have any right to be critical of the behavior of others or those in another party.