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5 Reactions to Jeff Sessions' Testimony on Trump and Russia

By Michael Gryboski, Editor
3. Andrew McCarthy
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Andrew C. McCarthy, contributing editor to the National Review and former assistant U.S. attorney, argued in a column published Tuesday that the legal privileges that Sessions invoked during his testimony were valid.

"There are many relationships as to which the law protects the confidentiality of communications: marital, doctor-patient, attorney-client, priest-penitent, and so on. There is also, of course, the privilege against self-incrimination," wrote McCarthy.

"In a trial ... [a] lawyer knows that if the witness is asserting a legitimate legal privilege, the lawyer is not supposed to try to make it look like the witness is obstructing the proceeding."

McCarthy went on to denounce the line of questioning of Senator Martin Heinrich and others against Sessions as showing how "congressional hearings are theater, not searches for the truth."

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