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The Russia Investigations: Sessions On Edge, Bannon Exiled And Internecine Combat

A cyclone of news reshapes D.C. and spins the Russia imbroglio into a significant new direction. Attorney General Jeff Sessions wound up in quicksand; Steve Bannon wound up cast into darkness.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions holds a news conference at the Department of Justice on December 15, 2017, in Washington, D.C.

This week in the Russia investigations: Big problems for Sessions, Bannon cut adrift and Republicans search for more weapons to fire.

Living on the edge

A lighthouse can stand safely on a barrier island one morning and then when a big storm blows through, be teetering at land's end by the next.

Following the heavy cyclone of news this week, dawn in Washington, D.C., on Saturday found Attorney General Jeff Sessions on the slippery sand — and that could also mean peril for Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller.

revealed that Sessions tried to smear then-FBI Director James Comey before he was fired. The report, by Michael Schmidt, also said President Trump ordered White House counsel Don McGahn to lean on Sessions not to recuse himself from the Russia probe, and when Sessions did recuse, the president fustigated him. Sessions offered to

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