I said it before and I say it again. I don't trust Sessions. -Trump says Russia probe wouldn't have happened if Barr was AG instead of 'disaster' Sessions. "Jeff was just very weak and very sad." Robert Mueller's Russia probe never would have happened if now-Attorney General William Barr was picked for the position in 2017 instead of Jeff Sessions, President Trump said Friday. In a phone interview on "Fox & Friends" with host Steve Doocy, Brian Kilmeade, and Ainsley Earhardt, the president said that Sessions was a "disaster" in his role and that, initially, he did not want to make him attorney general. TRUMP CALLS FOR 'DIRTY COPS' TO PAY 'BIG PRICE' FOR RUSSIA PROBE AFTER RELEASE OF TRANSCRIPTS, IN 'FOX & FRIENDS' INTERVIEW "I didn't want to make him Attorney General, but he was the first senator to endorse me. So, I felt a little bit of an obligation," Trump recalled. "He came to see me four times just begging me to be attorney general. He wasn't equipped to be attorney general, but he just wanted it, wanted it, wanted it. He was from a state that I love: Alabama. You know, I won Alabama by a tremendous margin." "He wanted it and I said, 'Alright, Jeff.' You know, he was a smaller version of that in Alabama for a little while. He was a very average guy, I find out. But, he goes in — he was so bad in his nomination proceedings. I should have gotten rid of him there," he remarked. The president told the "Friends" hosts that Sessions "knew less about Russia" than he did, but that talking with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak was his downfall nonetheless. "But, they got him standing on a line with Kislyak — who is the ambassador. Well, Kislyak had dinner with Nancy Pelosi and Schumer. All these guys — everybody in Washington knew Kislyak. She had dinner with him many, many times," he stated. "And, Jeff was just very weak and very sad." In a complete reversal of his original reaction, Trump said that Sessions did not act like "a man" in recusing himself from Russia investigation in March of 2017. Their relationship has since soured and Sessions stepped down from his post at Trump's request in November 2018. https://www.foxnews.com/media/trump-sessions-barr-russia-learned-nixon