When Idaho Sen. Jim Risch got his chance today to question Attorney General Jeff Sessions in the Senate Intelligence Committee’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election, Risch led Sessions through a series of denials of any wrongdoing, suggesting occasional conversations with foreign government officials are “everyday occurrences” in the nation’s capital and that any that Sessions had were innocent. Risch also suggested that the Intelligence Committee has wasted large amounts of time looking into a report of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia that turned out to be false/Betsy Russell, Eye on Boise. More here.