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The actors of Saturday Night Live mocked Attorney General Jeff Sessions over the weekend as Forrest Gump in their cold open skit, ridiculing him in a way theyd never do to a Democratic attorney general like Eric Holder or Loretta Lynch, who both served under former President Barack Obama.

Sessions was portrayed by SNL actress Kate McKinnon.

The skit begins with Sessions sitting on a park bench at a bus stop in a scene very familiar to that in the hit 1990s movie Forrest Gump.

Im the attorney general of the whole United States. I got to meet the president and everything, Sessions tells actress Leslie Jones on the park bench, eating from a box of chocolates.

I always say life is like a box of chocolates, Sessions said, quoting a famous like from the movie. Then, they implied that the real-life Sessions in a racist.

Sure are a whole lot of brown ones in there, he continued.

The actors didnt leave the scene without getting a dig at White House counselor Kellyanne Conway.

Holding up the now infamous picture of Conway on her knees on a couch in the Oval Office, Sessions said: This is my best good friend Kellyanne she aint got no legs. Were about as close as peas and carrots. Shes the best talker you ever heard. They say she could sell stink to a skunk, but they dont let her talk anymore.

As the skit rolls on, Sessions speaks to several other people on the bench at the bus stop, where he openly admits wrongdoing in talking to the Russians.

At one point, Sessions tells another man that he was on the front page Wall Street Journal, except it was a story about Sessions allegedly committing perjury.

Yeah, I had a bad week, Sessions said.

Later, Russian President Vladimir Putin shows up portrayed by Beck Bennett and fist bumps Sessions.

This meeting never happened, Putin says.

I wasnt gonna remember it anyway, Sessions replied.

At the end of the skit, actress Octavia Spencer, who famously played Minny in the hit 2011 movie The Help, arrives at the bus stop holding what appears to be a pie.

Are you Jeff Sessions, the one Coretta Scott King wrote that letter about? Minny asks.

Oh, wow, that was 40 years ago. You still remember that? Sessions replied.

Ohhhhh, a lot of people in Alabama remember that, sir, Minny follows up.

And I have a pie I made especially for you, she adds, implying that it is the famous pie she served up in The Help, which she made from human feces.

That is a mighty kind gesture, Sessions tells Minny. Hey, is this what I think it is?

It is, Minny replies with a sly smirk.

Mmmm, my favorite! Session says, taking a big bite of the pie.

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Published March 02, 2017 | FoxNews.com

Former President Obama is getting ready to jump back into the political pool, former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said Tuesday.

Holder said he has been talking with Obama about different ways to help the new National Democratic Redistricting Committee, according to Politico. Obama asked Holder to be chairman of the group last year.

He's ready to roll, Holder told reporters at a briefing.

Obama and other top Democrats are focusing efforts on state-level races and ending the reconfiguring of voting districts through the politically-laded process known as gerrymandering a combined effort to end Trump-ism and help their party regain control of Congress and legislatures across the country.

Politico reported that the group seeks to direct resources into winning certain state elections, push ballot initiatives for nonpartisan district-drawing commissions and wage legal wars to existing maps.

By accomplishing their goals, the group hopes it would put Democrats at a better advantage in state legislatures and the House of Representatives.

Obama indicated before leaving the White House last fall that his short-term, post-presidency focus will be on General Assembly races and redistricting after the 2020 Census. Voting districts are redrawn after a federal Census to reflect the changes in population and other demographic. Much of the redistricting across the country is done by the political party that controls the state legislature.

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These three mainstream media outlets devoted a combined 1 hour and 12 minutes over less than two days to the now former Senator Sessions two interactions with the Russian Ambassador. That coverage time was tabulated from just one set of evening and two sets of morning shows. During Senate confirmation hearings for his current position of U.S. Attorney General, Sessions responded to Sen. Al Frankens questions about Trump campaign surrogates meeting with Russian officials by saying that as he was at times considered a surrogate for the campaign and did not meet with Russian officials.

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MRC compared the Sessions coverage with coverage by these three networks of former Attorney General Holder on the day he became the first Cabinet member to be held in contempt of Congress. Holder had refused to provide documents for the House investigation into the Obama Administration Fast and Furious gun running scandal. As a result, Holder was held in contempt on June 28, 2012.

The grand total of combined airtime between the three networks on Holder being held in contempt of Congress garnered just 10 minutes and 38 seconds, according to MRCs calculation.

The morning of the vote to hold Holder in contempt, the three morning shows carried a combined 91 seconds of the story. That evening varied little, as only NBC carried the full story, but for only 2 minutes and 8 seconds. ABC and CBS carried just 35 seconds and 30 seconds, respectively, according to the MRC. The following morning, NBC was again the only network of the three to carry a full report at just 2 minutes, 50 seconds as well as short mentions of the story. ABC and CBS again carried merely short mentions of it.

CBS led the pack on coverage of Sessions with 28 minutes and 42 seconds over the day and a half according to the MRC. NBC followed with 25 minutes and 12 seconds, while ABC spent 18 minutes and 39 seconds on the story.

When compared, the three networks covered then Sen. Sessions meeting the Russian ambassador approximately 6.8 times as much as they covered the unprecedented news that a Cabinet member, Holder, was held in contempt of Congress.

Since the Sessions story broke, many Democrats have lodged weighty condemnation of Sessions meeting with the ambassador. Sessions contends that the meetings at the time were in his capacity as a Senator. Some of those Democrats, such as Rep. Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Chuck Schumer, have since been challenged for meeting with Russian officials as well. Whats more, new details have surfaced that it was the Obama Administration State Department that sponsored a July 2016 event where Sessions met the Russian ambassador for the second time that year.

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INDIANAPOLIS -- Former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder was in Indianapolis on Thursday to speak at the Steward Speakers Series at Indiana University-Purdue University campus where he touched on what life has been like out of the public eye, current Attorney General Jeff Sessions, and former President Barack Obama's return to politics.

Since his time with the Department of Justice, Holder has returned to his day job as a lawyer with Washington, D.C. law firm Covington & Burling. He is also involved with the National Democratic Redistricting Committee and said heenjoys "just being Eric again".

"I still get recognized on the street, but I kind of like reclaiming my anonymity. I like being able to do normal kinds of things without having a security detail," he said.

Holder also shared his opinions on Attorney General Jeff Sessions' recusal.

I dont think, on the basis of what Ive heard so far, that theres a basis for resignation. There is a need to investigate further what the nature of his contacts was with the Russians, and I understand that Congress might be doing something in that regard, Holder said to RTV6.

He added that the top priority should be getting to the bottom of what interference the Russians had with the 2016 presidential election.

Whats at stake is the fate of our democracy. They made an attempt to interfere in the most important decision we make as Americans."

As for Obama's political comeback, Holder stayed mum on the specifics of theplan, saying that he didn't want to "steal his thunder".However, he did provide an idea of what to expect in the next few weeks.

"He's going to be involved in the redistricting effort that I'm the chair of, but I think he has some other feelings, some other thoughts that he wants to share with the country. I would expect in the next month or so, you'll hear from him."

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