Maxine Waters to Sessions: 'Time to go back to the plantation'

Rep. Maxine Waters BKA Auntie Maxine, slammed United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Friday, telling him to "go back to the plantation" after he said did not recall hearing if members of the Trump campaign were in contact with the Russians.

Read Waters tweet below:

Sessions doesn't remember what he said, when he said it, & where he was when he said it. Don't blame him. Time to go back to the plantation.

— Maxine Waters (@RepMaxineWaters) November 3, 2017

Sen. Booker acts to prevent Trump from firing special counsel

U.S. Sens. Cory Booker and Lindsey Graham moved Thursday to prevent President Donald Trump from dismissing special counsel Robert Mueller, who is investigating possible ties between his campaign and Russia.

Booker (D-N.J.), who has called for an independent outside investigation, and Graham (R-S.C.), who did not endorse the Republican presidential nominee after his own campaign for the White House fizzled, introduced legislation to block such a move.

The Special Counsel Independence Protection Act would let the attorney general remove the special only after asking a federal court to rule that there was "misconduct, dereliction of duty, incapacity, conflict of interest, or other good cause for removal."

A look at the controversy surrounding President Donald Trump and whether his campaign colluded with Russia.

"A special counsel's duty is to follow the facts and the law wherever that leads," Booker said. "They should never be subjected to interference or intimidation because of where an investigation takes them."

The lawmakers acted amid criticism by Trump leveled against his attorney general, Jeff Sessions, who recused him from any involvement in the probe after it was disclosed that he met with the Russian ambassador during the campaign after telling the Senate Judiciary Committee that he had no such contacts.

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Elijah Cummings statement on Donald Trump Jr. Russia emails

Congressman Elijah Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform issued the following statement on Donald Trump's email chain as it pertains to the setting up of a meeting with a Russian lawyer. A person that Trump Jr. believed had damaging information on Hillary Clinton. Cummings comments in his statement that this is a sad day for our country.

Elijah Cummings: "This is a sad day for our country...We must investigate. And we must act on our findings." pic.twitter.com/9N3xxj1Zqx

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) July 11, 2017