Attorney General Jeff Sessions resigned under pressure Wednesday after more than a year of public criticism from his boss, President Donald Trump.
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Trump's press secretary Sarah Sanders said the White House received a resignation letter from Sessions, 71, earlier Wednesday and Trump accepted it.
Sessions, a former senator from Alabama, departs after the president repeatedly hammered him about his decision last year to recuse himself from the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and whether the Trump campaign colluded with the Kremlin.
"I don't have an attorney general," Trump told The Hill in an interview with that news site in September.
Trump says that moment opened the door to special counsel Robert Mueller's probe, which the president has repeatedly called a "witch hunt."
A spokesman for Mueller's office declined to comment when contacted by CNBC
Additional reporting by Kevin Breuninger and Brian Schwartz of CNBC.
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