美國議員等待司法部長塞申斯作證

U.S. lawmakers said Sunday they want answers from U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions when he testifies this week before the Senate Intelligence Committee investigating Russian interference in last year's presidential election.

“There's a question of his [Sessions'] participation in the firing of [former FBI] director Comey,” Democratic Senator Jack Reed of Rhode Island said on Fox News Sunday. “Then, there have been allegations, publicly, of meetings that go beyond the meetings that he has already declared he had with representatives of Russia's government. That will come up.”

Sessions originally was scheduled to appear before House and Senate appropriations subcommittees this week. But he wrote to Congress Saturday that he wanted to speak before the Senate Intelligence Committee instead to address questions that arose during Comey's testimony last week.

“I assume that this [hearing] will be public,” Republican Senator James Lankford of Oklahoma said on CBS' Face the Nation program. “We want to be able to get his side of it, get all the facts out there. We've had a lot of unnamed sources in the media come out and make statements about Jeff Sessions. It would be very good to get it directly from him.”

The Justice Department, which Sessions heads, has been investigating contacts between the Russian government and President Donald Trump's inner circle.美國議員星期天表示，他們希望美國司法部長傑夫·塞申斯本週在參議院情報委員會就調查俄羅斯介入去年美國總統大選一事進行作證時，能夠得到他對一些問題的答案。

來自羅德島州的民主黨籍參議員傑克·裏德對福克斯星期天新聞節目說，“我對他參與解僱前聯調局局長科米一事有個問題。還有就是有公開的指稱說，在他自己聲明與俄羅斯政府的代表舉行的會晤之外還有會晤。這個問題也會問到。”

塞申斯原本定於本週出席衆議院和參議院撥款委員會的會議。但是他星期六寫信給國會，他希望在參議院情報委員會作證，迴應上週科米作證所出現的問題。

來自俄克拉荷馬州的共和黨籍參議員詹姆斯·蘭克福德在哥倫比亞廣播公司的“面對全國”節目中說，“我預計聽證會是公開的。我們希望能夠得到他對這個問題的說法，釐清所有的事實。我們有很多未透露姓名的媒體信息來源，說到了有關傑夫·塞申斯的事情。直接從他那裏得到回答會非常好。”

塞申斯領導的司法部，一直在調查俄羅斯政府和川普總統核心圈的聯繫接觸。