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With us now, our legal panel here to talk about it tonight. jill wine-banks, ken did he laneian. so, ken, you'll get the first one tonight. what was your take-away from soup to nuts, all of the sessions testimony, including some of the nonanswers? >> well, brian, i was first struck that jeff sessions' story seems to have evolved once again about whether he had substantive conversations with any russians with particularly russian ambassador kislyak. he started out saying to the senate committee that he had no contacts with russians. he then changed the story to yes, i did have contact but we di...

Sense. we had no reason to expect this was before july and in june. even if donald junior should have known you don't sit down with russians who say they have bad information about your opponent, nothing came from it anyway. the woman lawyer had nothing. i did nothing afterwards. there was no follow-up. nothing matters. do you buy that defense? >> i can't buy that specially in the context of what we witnessed over the last year including the sessions testimony where he forgot his meetings. clear, inappropriate conversations.

Jeff sessions struggled to do that and would not commit to answering questions behind closed doors, so after the hearing democrats very frustrated, did not get their answers to some key questions, republicans trying to move on to other areas of the investigation. thank you. democrats fumed over sessions testimony, republicans used lighter touch. here's senator tom cotton down playing these allegations while nodding at sessions taste for espionage thrillers. >> do you like spy fiction? daniel silva. jason matthews? >> yeah. david ignatius. >> you like jason bourne or james bond movies? >> no....

Executive privilege that was claimed by the white house. instead saying there was some sort of department of justice policy that prohibited him from discussing this matter with the committee. democrats will point to that provision within the department of justice guidelines. jeff sessions struggled to do that and also would not commit to answering questions behind closed doors, so after the hearing democrats very frustrated he did not get their answers to some key questions. republicans trying to move on to other areas of his investigation. thanks. democrats fumed over sessions testimony, re...

Other areas of the investigation. >> while democrats fumed over sessions testimony, republicans used a lighter touch. here's senator tom cotton down playing the collusion allegations while nodding to sessions taste for espionage thrillers. >> do you like spy fiction? daniel silva, jason matthews. >> yeah. david ignatius. >> do you like jason bourne or james bond movies? >> no. yes, i do. >> have you ever in these fantastic situations heard of a plot line so ridiculous that a sitting united states senator and an ambassador of a foreign government colluded at an open setting with hundreds of oth...