before or after election day? no, senator sessions replied. he did not elaborate. well, turns out that wasn't true. it's since been reported that session met with russian ambassador sergey kislyak at least twice including a meeting during the republican convention in july of 2016. and meeting in his senate office in september of that year. fast forward to last month when during his testimony in front of a senate judiciary committee, jefferson sessions was pressed by senator franken about that discrepancy. on the question of surrogate, communicating with russian, sessions again denied any knowledge of those contacts. >> you don't believe that surrogates from the trump campaign had communications with the russians? is that what you're saying? >> i did not. and i'm not aware of anyone else that did. and i don't believe it happened. >> not surprisingly, that was also revealed to be untrue. just 12 days later, on october 30th, a charging document was