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Spoke with Sergey Kislyak last july. It was during these conversations, im told by j. D. Gordon, they talked about improving relations between the u. S. And russia. It was dur thag time, erin, that j. D. Gordon says he went to the convention, Advocating On Behalf of the campaign for language in the gop platform that advocated against the arming of the ukrainians in their fights against the prorussian rebels. That is something the Trump Campaign denied they were doing at the time. It denied it was advocating for that language in the gop platform. Flash forward to december and according to a Sen...

Investigationing a campaign i have a role in. >> reporter: the well of affection runs deep. sessions was the first senator to endorse the long-shot presidential candidate in february, 2016. >> i am pleased to endorse donald trump for the presidency of the united states. >> reporter: at a time when many in the gop eye trump, sessions became one of trump's biggest boosters on the campaign trail. >> there's one man with a strength, a courage, determination, the guts, the challenge, the thing that is are going wrong in this country and put us on the right track. that's donald j. trump. >> reporter...

Attorney general is to serve and protect the people of the united states and that is exactly what he will do and do better than anybody else can. >> reporter: now, three weeks after leaving the senate and being sworn in as attorney general, one of trump's top officials is already facing calls to resign. >> in retrospect, i should have slowed down and said i did meet one russian official a couple times. that would be the ambassador. >> reporter: now, the sessions matter may be settled in the eyes of the president, but this evening, we learned about even more contacts that happened during the pr...

Kislyak and now turns out jared kushner and michael flynn, jer sessions and multiple other members of the national security team involved in meetings with this ambassador. >> frankly, if i had been in the cia and met with russian officials and not reported it in writing, i would be fired. this is just really, truly crossed the line. i don't care that he's ambassador. all the ambassadors are co-opted by the kgb. they operate and recruit. the great ames, the mole inside the cia was run by a ministry of foreign affairs official in washington, d.c. we shouldn't be confused about that. what we shou...

Russian ambassador came to new york, went to trump tower, met with michael flynn and jared kushner. of course we know about jeff sessions having two meetings, one outside the convention in cleveland. how big of a deal is this? >> it's a big deal. i think as the day has moved on, erin, it is clear the recusal is not enough thchlt is the top law enforcement officer of the nation. this is the largest law enforcement bureau in the country, over 100,000 strong. the integrity of the law enforcement in the judicial system is really at stake here. look, everybody has heard, do you swear to tell the tr...