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King. pete williams is in washington, peter alexander at the white house, kasie hunt on the hill, one of the reporters who broke the sessions story, ellen nokashima of "the washington post" and eliza collins. i want to start immediately with ellen who broke this story, front page piece, a huge scoop. walk us through this. sessions was saying his meeting with the russian ambassador was as his official capacity as a senator on the armed services committee drawing this distinction as a surrogate or somebody who campaigned for the president on the campaign trail. talk about how this came up. >> je...

Impropriety or conflict, that could call into question the integrity of the investigation and people are saying he should -- even republicans, top republicans are saying for the good of the investigation, he should recuse himself. >> ellen, thank you very much for joining us. i want to go to pick up that thread to kasie hunt. i want to pull up before we get to you some of the democrats calling for resignation, folks like elijah cummings, senator mack ca mccaskill. and others are calling for recusal. >> reporter: increasing calls from republicans who want jeff sessions to recuse himself from an...

Officials. as it turns out last year at the height of the concerns of the investigation of the russian hacks and influence in the presidential campaign, then senator session himself a one-on-one meeting with the russian ambassador in his office on capitol hill it was one of, to be fair, about two dozen meetings he'd had with various diplomats, ambassadors, over the course of the year. but in this case, he did not disclose the fact that he had met with the ambassador when he was testifying under oath during his confirmation hearing in january. >> ellen, i want to interrupt you for a second. i w...