In a wide-ranging interview with the New York Times, US President Donald Trump said he never would have hired Attorney General Jeff Sessions if he'd known he would recuse himself from the Russia investigation.
Mr Sessions placed his deputy in charge of the Justice Department's probe into allegations of Russian interference in the US elections shortly after taking his post.
But President Trump was highly critical of that move:
IN: "Sessions gets the job..."
OUT: "....picked somebody else."
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