Attorney General Jeff Sessions will testify in an open hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday, according to the committee’s leaders. Sessions will be testifying before Congress for the first time since he was confirmed as attorney general in February. In light of former FBI director James B. Comey’s testimony last week, Sessions is expected to get questions from lawmakers about his contacts with Russian officials during the 2016 election campaign. Justice Department spokeswoman Sarah Isgur Flores said Sessions requested that the committee hearing be public. He asked to testify instead before the Senate Intelligence Committee, but it had been unclear whether that hearing would be open to the public.

Source: Washington Post June 12, 2017 15:22 UTC