--- title: Kate McKinnon Reenacts Jeff Sessions Senate Hearing VIDEO description: Following Jeff Sessions' Senate hearing, Kate McKinnon revived her impression of the Attorney General to hilariously spoof his testimony. canonical: https://time.com/4818645/kate-mckinnon-jeff-sessions-impression-hearing/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-06-14T19:11:46.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:44:30.534Z og:title: Kate McKinnon Just Hilariously Revived Her Jeff Sessions Act og:description: "'Oath' is such a strong word" og:url: https://time.com/4818645/kate-mckinnon-jeff-sessions-impression-hearing/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Kate McKinnon Just Hilariously Revived Her Jeff Sessions Act twitter:description: "'Oath' is such a strong word" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # 'Recuse Me.' 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During an appearance on _Late Night_, McKinnon revealed that Sessions is her favorite member of the Trump administration to portray — sorry, Kellyanne Conway — before giving her take on his answers to the Senate’s questions. “‘Oath’ is such a strong word. Now when I said ‘oath’ I thought I was saying ‘oats’ in one of those lispy Barcelona accents,” she deadpanned with her signature mouth curl. “With \[Russian Ambassador\] Sergey Kislyak, I only met him two times. OK, three times. But the third time was in a men’s restroom, and we was just talking about what a trial it is to get soap out of those electric soap dispensers.” Watch the full clip above. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4818645/kate-mckinnon-jeff-sessions-impression-hearing/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4818645/kate-mckinnon-jeff-sessions-impression-hearing/"},"headline":"'Recuse Me.' 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