campaign communicated with the russian government in the koergs of this campaign, what will you do? >> senator franken, i'm not aware of any of those activities. i have been called a surrogate at a time or two in that campaign, and i didn't -- did not have communications with the russians. and i'm unable to comment on it. >> since then it came out that he had actually met with the russian ambassador twice although he said he did so in his capacity as a senator and not a campaign surrogate. president trump even went on to say that, sessions, quote, could have stated his response more accurately. sessions yesterday amended his remarks to the committee saying that his answer was correct and that he, quote, did not mention communications he had with the russian ambassador over the years because the question did not ask about them. what's your response, sir? >> that's a ridiculous response. it's not a clarification at all. of course, the question didn't ask about the russian ambassador. i didn't ask him -- he answered