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.”
Senator Al Franken (D-Minn.) was the one who originally asked Sessions during his confirmation hearings: “… if it’s true [that ‘there was a continuing exchange of information during the campaign between Trump’s surrogates and intermediaries for the Russian government’], it’s obviously extremely serious, and if there is any evidence that anyone affiliated with the Trump campaign communicated with the Russian government in the course of this campaign, what will you do?”
Sessions responded: “I would just say to you that I have no information about this matter.”
