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Overand over again, they have exculpatory events only to have new information contradicting the initial account. and till insist there is a new perfectly innocent explanation. just last night, the atlantic broke the story that donald trump jr. was secretly corresponding with wikileaks in the run up to the election, refuting the strong denial by then vice president alcandidate mike pence that they were in cahoots. it's the same pattern we saw can don jr.'s shifting stories on his meeting with the russian lawyer at trump tower, with carter page's meeting with government officials during his summ...

Attended a march 2016 meeting of the campaign's national security committee, which was chaired by sessions, where, according to those documents, when papadopoulos introduced himself to the group, he stated, and i'm quoting here, in sum and substance, that he had connections that could help arrange a meeting between then candidate trump and president putin. but in previous appearances on capitol hill, as recently as last month, the attorney general denied any knowledge whatsoever of contacts between russian proxies and members of the trump campaign. >> you don't believe that surrogates from the...

York times" report on sessions where he reportedly offered to resign just before the foreign trip. this is amazing to me. what exactly can you tell us? because if it's tied to president trump being unhappy that jeff sessions recused himself, that recusal was not an admission of guilt and it got bipartisan suppt. >> the one person who didn't know about it in advance who was mad about it was donald trump, the president. he was blind-sided when attorney general sessions made this announcement that he was going to recuse himself. the president thought it was unnecessary, he thought it was a sign o...

Interested in comey expanding upon those. the president actually weighed in on sessions' interview on tuesday. >> the attorney general told the special counsel -- >> not at all. >> did you talk to him about it? >> i'm not at all concerned. >> reporter: jeff sessions' interview, a major development in the russia probe. the white house has continually said that it is cooperating with mueller's investigation. >> thank you for that. joining us this morning, making his long-await "early start" debut, cnn political analyst errol lewis. i know you've been long waiting to get up at 3:00 in the morni...

Cabinet. more from cnn's jessica schneider in washington. >> reporter: we do now know that both the attorney general and former fbi director james comey have both been interviewed by the special counsel's office. the attorney general was questioned for several hours by mueller's team last week on wednesday according to a source close to sessions. former fbi director comey spoke with investigators last year. the interviews we know focused on two things. first, that's meddling in the election, and second, whether or not president trump obstructed office since taking office, especially as it conc...