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>> when democratic accused the attorney general of having memory lapses, at least 65 times in previous testimony. it was today under oath that the attorney general said only after he read media reports that he was able to refresh his memory about this march 2016 national security meeting at the trump hotel in washington. this is the meeting where campaign aide george papadopoulos broached the idea of setting up a meeting with then candidate trump and the russian president. sessions said he shut down the discussion. >> i believe that i wanted to make clear to him that he was not authorize to re...

Has the intelligence background that he does, the only conclusion that i can reach is he doesn't want investigators looking at his russian ties because that's where he seems to have the memory lapses of the greatest. but he also apparently left other off as well just to pretend like he hadn't been out of the country or had been dealing with foreign leaders. i think he's in a heap of trouble as a result of this. it's too many and too widespread to be a careless error. >> david gergen, what's the significance as with this new possibly very significant development into the investigation into gene...

Before the senate. that is because you are trying to create a legal standard for truthfulness. so, there is certainly a legal question to be explored regarding perjury. i would say this carefully. i don't think we're all the way there perjury. i don't think we're all the way there yet because we don't know enough yet about the nature of the contacts. that's now on the attorney general to clarify. the fact that so far the statements have been so terse and seem like damage control in an environment where you really expect and i think people rightfully demand the opposite, which is not a bumper s...

Benghazi committee, republican was not quite as nice to cheryl mills and said that she had some memory lapses particularly when it came to benghazi. she tended to have more problems remembering questions from the republican members of the committee than from the democratic members of the committee. may mean something, may not. it is kind of interesting. you know, look, the committee is doing exactly what an investigative committee should do. they are trying to get all of the information, to get answers to all the questions. so when he this get hillary clinton before the committee on october 22...

Deposition behind closed doors. she came out with the republican chairman as well as the ranking democrat who clearly agreed to give one single statement to the media. they said it had been professional and respectful and answered all the questions. she did answer some of the questions, but there were many issues she had simply forgotten. >> she did. she does not have a good memory. but you have to understand this has been 2 1/2, 3 years ago. but she did remember a lot of things or didn't remember some of the finer details that we may have liked to have had. >> reporter: congress nean west mor...