Attorney General Jeff Sessions. (Brian Witte/AP)Attorney General Jeff Sessions insisted in a letter to Congress Monday that he was “correct” to say he did not have communications with the Russians as part of the presidential campaign even though he had twice met with the Russian ambassador. He said in the letter that he did not tell legislators sooner about those meetings because he thought he had fully answered the particular question he was asked. “As I noted in my public statement on March 2, 2017, I was surprised by the allegations in the question, which I had not heard before. I answered the question, which asked about a ‘continuing exchange of information during the campaign between Trump’s surrogates and intermediaries for the Russian government,’ honestly.

Source: Washington Post March 06, 2017 22:39 UTC