Former FBI official Philip Mudd said Tuesday that Attorney General Jeff Sessions won with his testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Russia.<\/b>
\nFormer FBI official Philip Mudd said Tuesday that Attorney General Jeff Sessions won with his testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Russia.
\u00ab\u00a0The Senate did not win, \u00a0\u00bb Mudd, who worked under former FBI Director Robert Muller, told Wolf Blitzer on CNN. \u00ab\u00a0His strategy is to go dumb early.\u00a0\u00bb
During more than two hours of testimony before the panel, Sessions frequently said that he was relying on his recollections of various events from the campaign or in the administration \u2014 and hit back at Democrats who suggested that he was \u00ab\u00a0stonewalling\u00a0\u00bb senators with his answers.
Mudd said that Sessions most likely will continue this approach \u00ab\u00a0if further facts about meetings come out.
\u00ab\u00a0You will see more.\u00a0\u00bb
However, Mudd said that the true authority with the Russia probe lies with Muller, now special counsel in the Moscow probe, not the Senate.
\u00ab\u00a0The most significant opinion is not in the Senate, \u00a0\u00bb he told Blitzer. \u00ab\u00a0It is Robert Mueller’s.
\u00ab\u00a0I question some of his judgments, but nothing illegal. I think he wins this round.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n

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