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They have experts who are there to advise them on these things. i'm sure that kislyak can't just -- i shouldn't say i'm sure, i'm not sure of anything anymore. i'm sure he didn't call and say jeff, i would like to come chat with you and sessions didn't mention it to anybody. if that were the case, it would be more disturbing. the bottom line, you have this story that is unresolved about what was, if there was a level of collusion between the russians and the trump campaign, sessions was deeply involved in that campaign. now, he is, as has been mentioned today, he's suspicion in the investigati...

Did you talk about the election to russian officials. he said no. do you believe he's lying? i don't believe the attorney general of the united states. i think most of the american public is going to find it just not credible that the attorney general -- look, he -- the fbi reports to the attorney general. the attorney general reports to the white house. what do we know thus far? we know the white house is talking to the deputy attorney general asking him to kind of counter stories in what they call the fake media. we can't really count on the legislative branch of government because both the ...

What is your reaction? the president coming out to slam democrats, but acknowledging he could have stated his response more accurately to congress. >> it's important to point out given the statement, there were more than a few republicans on capitol hill who called for general sessions to recuse himself. there are more than a few republicans participating in these intelligence committee reviews who said they take it quite seriously. so, i understand the strategy, to contain the thing and turn it into a partisan issue. i think it's beyond that now. the president is going to need a different str...

>> would you use that statement in a court of law to impeach a witness on the witness stand? >> would i use it -- >> would you use it against sessions if he was on the witness stand in a case you were trying? >> that's the point. franken should have followed up. i would have used it for a follow up question. my follow up question would have been, are you saying you did not have any contact with the russians either in your official role or anything else? that would have been the question. al franken says, sir, i'm not an attorney. it's very apparent he's not an attorney because his questions we...

About his contacts with the russian ambassador. trump said he didn't believe he should recuse himself. sarah murray is out front. >> reporter: a defiant trump is standing by his closest ally, insisting attorney general jeff sessions has his full support. >> do you have confidence in him? >> total. >> should he have spoke truthfully? >> he probably did. >> reporter: the president saying he believes the attorney general testified truthfully even though sessions failed to disclose two meetings with the russian ambassador, meetings the white house learned about through media reports according to a...