Seth Abramson megathread on Sessions-Kislyak. 

My take is that

a) Kushner started the ball rolling in Mar 2016 with calls to set up Mayflower meeting [primarily for Rosneft oil deal]

b) @ secret April Mayflower meeting in front of Kislyak and others, Trump promised ( only slightly obliquely ) support on ending sanctions, not really needing an explicit "we'll do..." quid-pro-quo, though maybe (likely?) direct conversations with Kislyak were much more specific.

c) the June meeting with Trump Jr and Kushner wasn't to start things - it was a status meeting seeing if 2 days after Hillary's nomination the Russian spy/hacker/bot operation could deliver now on the anti-Hillary dirt & leaks, and whether the Trump team still knew their obligations.

d) Sessions followed up with Kislyak in person at both RNC meeting in July and later "forgotten" September meetup.

e) August - US intelligence briefs Trump on Russian hacks. Trump response? He never goes back for another intelligence briefing.

f) Trump's inviting Lavrov and Kislyak to the White House the day after firing Comey is perhaps the most incredible part of this, but of course we have it thanks to the Russians taking photos - what message were they sending?

How much more kompromat and revelations to go?

Also wondering what Sessions revelations does to the FBI confirmation hearings? In a sane world they'd stop and rewind. But it's not a sane world.

ETA: DNI Dan Coats caught on back feet weaving and bobbing and blabbing incoherently. This is our "intelligence" leadership?

ETAA: maybe Sessions fall from grace will have some long-needed fallout in Alabama and the rest of the South, where he's still strangely revered? Even Forrest Gump ran out of rocks.