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The seven panelists Preston had lined up were removed from the schedule.

On the day before the hearing, Preston said he was forced to attend a two-hour meeting with the superintendent and the families of the victims to discuss his report.

“I was denied the right to have an attorney present. I was refused the opportunity to record the meeting, and I was told this was because the superintendent wouldn’t have any representation of his own,” Preston said.

“The attorney general made a terrible mistake when he did this, and when he recused himself,” Trump said of Sessions at the White House before meeting with military leaders. “Or he should have certainly let us know if he was going to recuse himself, and we would have used a—put a different attorney general in. So, he made what I consider to be a very terrible mistake for the country.”

McCarthy initially opposed Sessions’ recusal primarily for its timing, asserting that at the time the Russia probe was a counterintelligence matter.