WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Two days before he dismissed them, Attorney General Jeff Sessions gave no indication in a conference call with US attorneys across the country that some of their jobs were in peril, one of the dismissed US attorneys told CNN on Monday.

Sessions held the call last Wednesday, said the dismissed US attorney, who agreed to speak with CNN on the condition of anonymity.

Instead, Sessions discussed the office's new violent crime task force and said he looked forward to engaging with everyone.

The call -- held with all 93 attorneys, not only the ones who were dismissed -- was described to CNN as a very positive discussion with no hint of what was to come. At one point, President Donald Trump's nominee for deputy attorney general, Rod Rosenstein, asked if anyone had anything else to offer and an exchange took place about whether Native American areas would be included in the new violent crime initiatives.

One of the US attorneys on the call offered to help Sessions and said he was willing to brief him on these specific issues, and Sessions said that he would look forward to having his staff set that up. Two days later, however, Sessions fired the attorney and more than 40 others.

The Justice Department declined CNN's request for comment on the matter.

The US attorney who spoke to CNN said that he first received notice of his firing through a call from a reporter and then a mass email sent from the Justice Department's public affairs office.

Acting Deputy Attorney General Dana Boente then later called him and said that he needed to be out that same day. The fired US attorney viewed Boente as a friend, and Boente was apologetic for having to do it this way.

On Friday, Sessions formally asked for the resignations of 46 US attorneys, igniting anger from officials who felt they were given no warning about their dismissals, according to a law enforcement source. Boente was in the beginning stages of calling each US attorney individually to tell them they had to resign when the DOJ issued a statement.

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