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Communications in the trump campaign. >> you dont believe that surrogates from the trump campaign had communications with the russians? is that what youre saying? >> i did not, and im not aware of anyone else that did. and i dont believe it happened. >> reporter: now senate democrats want to question sessions about the denials. the highly anticipated testimony from carter page fueling even more questions about what sessions knew regarding ties between the trump campaign and the kremlin. testifyi...

Saying that day after conversation sessions says no, i said yes, we need to follow appropriate protocol but keep in mind sessions said that comey had met with presidents one on one at least six times prior, including meetings with obama. so it was interesting just to hear sessions go after, try to defend himself and actually get ahead of the story, calling these lies and innuendos and what not. seems like it was more so an attempt to clear his name than to just what he said with comey. >> we hav...

Speak about it. >> reporter: flash forward to later on in the evening a white house official was asked again. he could not say whether he had confidence in sessions. there was friction between session and the president for several weeks. at one point during their conversation sessions offered to step aside and the president did not take that offer. however, were told by justice department spokeswoman that sessions is not being fired and has not offered to resign. still more breaking news overn...

Romney to join him as secretary of state, it would be a real coup for donald trump. >> what do you think about that? would romney do that? think even if i dont agree with this president, i feel responsibility to do this? what do you think? i think romney said hes interested and this actually, its country trumping party. i think its the president-elect putting the country first, and he said from the beginning he wants to bring people together from his election night speech to the press conference...

But sessions never disclosed the conversation during multiple congressional hearings when he was asked about direct communications in the trump campaign. >> you dont believe that surrogates from the trump campaign had communications with the russians? is that what youre saying? >> i did not, and im not aware of anyone else that did. and i dont believe it happened. >> reporter: now senate democrats want to question sessions about the denials. the highly anticipated questions fueling even more que...