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March 3 was a whirlwind of political theater on Capitol Hill as Democrats ravenously went after Attorney General Jeff Sessions for his undisclosed meetings with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. Democrats spent Thursday calling for Sessions to resign as well, led in their charge by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi. “[That] the top cop in our country lied under oath to the people is grounds for him to resign,” she told reporters. “He has proved that he is unqualified and unfit to serve in that position of trust.”

Likewise, Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren tweeted out her argument that Sessions should recuse himself from the pending investigations into the Trump Administration’s connections to Russia whom the CIA claims orchestrated the hack into the Democratic National Convention late in the election. It is important to note here that the Republican National Convention was also hacked around the same time.

“Now Jeff Sessions is AG – the final say on the law enforcement investigation into ties between the Trump campaign and Russia? What a farce,” Sen. Warren tweeted. “This is not normal. This is not fake news. This is a very real & serious threat to the national security of the United States.”

President Trump released a statement that day, explaining that Sessions should have been more accurate but that he did not make any misleading statements. “He could have stated his response more accurately, but it was clearly not intentional.”

President Trump had promptly appointed Lieutenant General Michael Flynn to the office of National Security Advisor upon taking office, and within weeks, The Wall Street Journal galvanized the media against him with their report that counterintelligence officials were investigating communications he had with Ambassador Kislyak prior to assuming office. Amid evidence that he interfered in foreign policy by warning the Ambassador that the Obama Administration’s sanctions against Russia would be rolled back while still technically a civilian and thereby violating the Logan Act, he submitted his resignation.

As the day wore on, Sessions finally did recuse himself from the investigation, yielding to intense political pressure from both sides of the isle.

Sessions was originally questioned about encounters with Russian officials and the Trump Campaign’s ties to Russia in several different ways during his confirmation hearing on January 10, and he swiftly denied there having been any encounters. Since then, it has been proven that Sessions met with Ambassador Kislyak twice during the 2016 election. His spokeswoman, Sarah Flores, says he specifically denied “communications between Russia and the Trump Campaign—not meetings he took as a senator.”