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Trump: 'Time Will Tell' If Sessions Remains Attorney General

The president was responding to questions regarding a newly published interview in The Wall Street Journal in which he says he's "very disappointed" with Sessions.

President Trump is keeping up relentless pressure on his attorney general, telling reporters "time will tell" whether Jeff Sessions stays or goes.

The latest comments, during a joint news conference with Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri, came days after a in which the president expressed anger with Sessions for having recused himself that the attorney general had taken "a VERY weak position on Hillary Clinton crimes."

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