“You do not walk into any hearing or committee meeting and reveal confidential communications with the president of the United States, who's entitled to receive confidential communications in your best judgment about a host of issues.”

American politician and attorney

Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III is an American politician and attorney who was born in 1946. He served as the 84th United States attorney general from 2017 to 2018 and spent two decades in the United States Senate representing Alabama. A Republican, Sessions was a senator from 1997 to 2017 before leaving the seat to join the first administration of President Donald Trump as attorney general. His tenure ended in 2018, after Trump dismissed him during the investigations into Russian interference and after Sessions had recused himself from those probes.