You have to, I'm sorry.
This sounds like a generic response that an AI would use any time it encountered something it wasn't sure how to respond to.
Nice try, AI.
Seems like a very specific leak that heads off anyone trying to accuse some future action of Sessions to be because Trump asked him to, belaboring the point that it was inappropriate that he asked.
Now they leaked it before the MSM could use it, and it reinforces Sessions independence while deflating it of any sensationalism.