{"id":318805,"date":"2017-07-25T06:59:48","date_gmt":"2017-07-25T05:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/cruz-denies-reports-about-replacing-sessions-as-new-us-attorney-general\/"},"modified":"2017-07-25T06:59:48","modified_gmt":"2017-07-25T05:59:48","slug":"cruz-denies-reports-about-replacing-sessions-as-new-us-attorney-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/cruz-denies-reports-about-replacing-sessions-as-new-us-attorney-general\/","title":{"rendered":"Cruz denies reports about replacing Sessions as new US attorney general"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>US Republican Senator Ted Cruz has denied rumors that he is on President Donald Trump\u2019s list of possible replacements for Attorney General Jeff Sessions.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cJeff Sessions is a friend and a strong conservative. I was proud to vote to confirm Jeff and to vigorously defend his confirmation, and I\u2019m deeply gratified that we have a principled conservative like Jeff Sessions serving as Attorney General,\u201d Cruz said in a statement on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe stories being reported in the media tonight are false. My focus is and will remain on fighting every day to defend 28 million Texans in the US Senate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The statement came shortly after <em>The Washington Post<\/em> claimed in a report that Cruz and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani were shortlisted for the job.<\/p>\n<p>Giuliani, a Republican and a strong ally of the president, has also denied the report.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has openly expressed dissatisfaction with Sessions over his recusal of a high-profile investigation&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/07\/25\/529597\/US-Cruz-Sessions-AG-Trump-Russia\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Republican Senator Ted Cruz has denied rumors that he is on President Donald Trump\u2019s list of possible replacements for Attorney General Jeff Sessions. \u201cJeff Sessions is a friend and a strong conservative. I was proud to vote to confirm Jeff and to vigorously defend his confirmation, and I\u2019m deeply gratified that we have a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-318805","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}