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Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., lamented on Tuesday that the days of elected lawmakers are increasingly being filled up with hearings to explore the latest round of stories about President Trump and Russia, stories that are often based on unnamed sources.

"It does seem as well that every unnamed source story somehow gets a hearing," he said at Tuesday's Senate Intelligence Committee hearing with Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

He said he was just in a hearing earlier that day with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who was also asked whether he and Sessions had talked at all about the Russia probe, from which Sessions has recused himself.

"He was very clear that he has never had conversations with you about that, and that you have never requested conversations about that," Lankford said.

"He was also peppered with questions about the latest rumor of the day, that is somehow the president is thinking about firing Robert Mueller and getting rid of him," Lankford added. In that hearing, Rosenstein said only he can fire Special Counsel Bob Mueller, and said it's not something he's thinking about."

"No one has any idea where the latest unnamed source story of the day is coming from, but somehow it's grabbing all the attention," Lankford said.

Lankford also dismissed the criticism from Democrats that Sessions was not reading out his private conversations with President Trump, and said former Attorney General Eric Holder routinely declined to detail his conversations with President Barack Obama.

"There seems to be a short memory about some of the statements Eric Holder would and would not make to any committee in the House or the Senate, and would or would not turn over documents," Lankford said.

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James Lankford: 'Every unnamed source story somehow gets a ... - Washington Examiner